Subscriber-only: Once you’ve been selling sex for a while, you amass a lot of strange stories. Depending on how precarious of a situation you’re in, they might skew towards weird and horrifying or weird and funny.
Tag Archives: prostitution
Any Man is a Client
While there is much discussion about the objectifying ways many men view women, often blamed on them watching or meeting with sex workers, there is far less about the way selling sex can change how sex workers view men (who are the bulk of our clientele).
SW History: 1800s France
This article provides a breakdown of some of the ideas around prostitution in the early to mid 1800s in Paris, as well as tables of statistics translated into English giving insight into the level of literacy of prostitutes in Paris and the ages they were enlisted… as well as letters from real sex workers who were asking the police for the permission to become brothel managers!
No Data on Prostitution? Just Make It Up!
The way people make up data about sex work is not new. There are people who want to exaggerate the number of sex workers whilst treating us as a scourge, to shock people with the scale of the supposed problem, while others want to present the need for sex workers’ rights as a pressing concern due to a large number of individuals being impacted.
Zine: What Terms Exist for Sex Workers?
Paid subscriber only: A zine about what terms exist for sex workers, the context those labels are used in, and the situations in which certain words for sex workers are ideal or not.
Don’t Say “Sex Work”
When it comes to the topic of prostitution and censorship of discussion about it, terms like “sex work” are often banned whilst words like “prostitution” or “sex trafficking” are not.
Age Verification Bills and the Chilling Effect
There are many problems with age verification and I don’t blame people whose first thoughts are about how this is an unhelpful restriction that doesn’t help kids but does restrict access to porn for the adults who want to watch it.
Responsible Reporting on Sex Work
A lot of people are being undervalued for their contributions in journalism or other forms of written media. Journalists and other writers should have solidarity with the sex workers they interview and seek to make the process as easy and safe for them as possible, rather than being a part of the machine which exploits us.
Psychopathia Prostitualis
Every time I look into the history of understanding sexuality, I find sex workers there. Sex workers aren’t valued for the contributions we make or recognized as propping up these researchers work the way we do, to great personal detriment and without compensation, but we’re there.
We’ll Make a Video Game with Dragons… and Hookers!
I go through phases with what kind of media I like to consume the most, and video games are one thing I come back to a lot. I’ve been playing games and coming across sex workers in them since long before I became a sex worker myself. Some of the examples that might first come to mind would be games like GTA or The Witcher. For me, the first time I remember playing a game that had a brothel in it was with the Dragon Age franchise.
Jack Talks About Sex Work 