As the Online Safety Act comes into effect in the UK, impacting websites where sex workers advertise our services, we find ourselves on the cusp of a nation-wide censorship effort that will push sex workers towards third party managers and brothel or street work.
Tag Archives: Sex Trafficking
Cleaning Up the Streets
When it’s convenient for police officers to do so, sometimes they take a break from criminalizing street sex workers to engage in another kind of abuse against them. They are exploited as an unpaid labour force of informants on their clients.
Wealthy White Women and Sex Trafficking Anxiety
Irrational fears of being sex trafficked among financially stable white women are created by misogynistic and whorephobic myths around the circumstances in which most sex trafficking happens.
How could you call these wealthy white women whores, when they’re so terrified of the prospect they might be forced into the role of one?
Stop Saying “The World’s Oldest Profession”
I am tired of hearing this racist phrase repeated by people who should know better. This phrase has a deeply racist origin and sex workers have no need to be legitimized through appeals to the age of the profession.
Why Julie Bindel is Wrong About Sex Work
Julie Bindel is a prominent figure among so-called “radical feminists” who oppose the decriminalization and destigmatization of sex work. Sex work is work, regardless of what Bindel and her ilk keep saying, and here’s why.
NPCC Sex Working Guidance
This is a breakdown of the newest UK police guidance regarding sex work (due for review between April 2024 and August 2025), including criticisms from a sex worker perspective.
Sex Work Slogans
If you pay any attention to sex workers’ rights advocacy, you’ll know that there are certain slogans which are used to draw attention to the movement and our demands. Here’s a short breakdown of some of the more popular ones.
Fiction About Sex Workers
A portion of the negative beliefs I had about sex workers, before I began selling sex myself, came from the media I consumed. There are lots of sex workers in fiction, but many of them fall intro tropes and are portrayed poorly.
Contemporary Prostitution – A Companion Book
Here is a PDF copy of “Contemporary Companion”. Physical copies were Kickstarter exclusive and there is no e-book for sale, but subscribers here get to read the digital copy! Whilst this book heavily references “Contemporary Prostitution: Study of a Social Question”, originally published in 1884, which I recently translated and published, it is not necessaryContinue reading “Contemporary Prostitution – A Companion Book”
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!
Jack Talks About Sex Work 