MPs in the UK want to amend the Police & Crime bill to criminalize paying for sex and get rid of escorting websites! This will harm sex workers.
Tag Archives: Sex Work
Hotel Workers and Hooker Hospitality
Having worked in a hotel both as a hospitality worker and as a hooker, I feel as though I’m in a particularly good place to discuss interactions between the two.
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?
Sex Work Themes in Interview with the Vampire
Interview with the Vampire (2022) is not a show that is explicitly about sex work, and yet selling and trading sex is a vital aspect of many characters and has a core importance to the story.
Why Not Date a Client?
The reason I wouldn’t even consider dating the vast majority of my clients isn’t based on their looks or social status or mannerisms. My clients aren’t all men who I would otherwise find ugly or off-putting. The issue is the dynamic that is created by paying me for sex.
Sex Deception Guidance: The Impact on Trans and Intersex Sex Workers
To summarize this guidance in the simplest terms, it treats a trans or intersex person not disclosing their gender identity and/or the sex they were assigned at birth as a form of deception which negates consent.
Dear Home Secretary: A Plea for Sex Work Decriminalization
This is my letter to the UK Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, calling for the decriminalization of sex work.
Dear Home Secretary,
I’m writing this letter to urge you to oppose measures criminalizing sex work in the UK, and to instead support the full decriminalization of it.
How Sex Workers Keep Working on Our Periods
Aside from catering to the occasional client with a menstruation fetish, sex workers who experience periods can have a tough time when we start bleeding.
Rate Shaming
The basic premise behind rate shaming sex workers over how much we charge is that our rates are viewed as correlated to our worth as individuals. Fundamentally, doing sex work is not something inherently degrading which must be balanced out by an empowering sum of money. It is a neutral act.
Sick of Ripper Tours – A Poem
A poem about Jack the Ripper tours in London and my hatred of them as someone who sells sex.