The line between financial dependency while dating and sex work is blurred from the moment you ask the question: what if I stopped having sex with my partner?
Tag Archives: prostitution
Proximity to Police: Sex Work, Classism and Cops
The legal system does not cease to be whorephobic to sex workers when we aren’t facing prostitution-related charges.
Homes for Hookers: London Renters’ Crisis
A monthly payslip feels like a golden ticket when you’re used to struggling to pass the referencing process for a rental agreement. If you can find a job that will give one to you consistently, you have a token that will grant you access to housing and credit. Earning that exact same amount of moneyContinue reading “Homes for Hookers: London Renters’ Crisis”
Kickstarter’s New “Mature Content” Guidelines
Kickstarter now joins an ever-increasing list of platforms leaving adult content creators behind. Here’s how that will impact sex workers who used the platform.
Feminized Fucks and Fatherhood
Whether it’s transactional fucks or experiencing childbirth, my desires are the same; that no-one be seen as more or less of a woman for them.
Why So Many Sex Work Exit Strategies Fail: Lessons from The Scarlett Letters
Employment at the bookshop came with the same promises for me that any other funded pathway to leave prostitution might; that the job would enable me to stop selling sex and serve as a jumping off point for future traditional work.
Can Sex Workers Make Good Parents?
In addition to those who begin sex work because of having children, plenty of sex workers have children once already engaging in it for the same reasons as everyone else; we want to start a family with a partner, we get pregnant accidentally, or we feel called to help raise the next generation with good values and ethics.
Swallowing Resentment
Being a whore taught me to swallow resentment like nothing else. I learned to hide my disgust at clients’ wealth and entitlement, dodging questions about my true opinions and stroking egos to keep them sweet.
How to Discuss Sex Work with Friends and Family
As with many taboo topics, it can be hard to decide how to handle the conversation around sex work when it comes up. Between bills restricting porn access and stories on the news about prostitution stings and brothel raids, discussions are happening more and more within families and friendship groups who would ordinarily avoid discussing sexual matters.
The Price of Cisification
SWARM and THORN recently collaborated on putting together a zine, entitled Nuance Doesn’t Pay the Bills – a work of poetry, prose, and essays from trans sex workers! I was lucky enough to be asked to write a piece for it, The Price of Cisification which I’ve included below. It’s all about the costs associated with pretending to be cis while selling sex as a trans person.
Jack Talks About Sex Work 