Invisible Sex Workers
Sex workers are somehow invisible when it comes to discerning the truth about their work. Yet clients, police, and others have no trouble finding them to pay, arrest, extort, rob, beat, or rape.
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Sex Workers’ Rights Are Workers’ Rights
Sex workers don’t need saving. They need what every other worker needs: the power to dictate the terms of their labor.
Keeping Sex Workers Quiet
Reducing the sex industry to human trafficking silences the sex workers fighting for their labor rights.
Socialists Should Support Sex Workers’ Rights
The criminalization of sex work is an attack on the lives and livelihoods of working-class people. Socialists should support decriminalization.
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande Has a “Magic Sex Worker” Problem
Critics are fawning over Good Luck to You, Leo Grande for its “brave” sex positivity. But the crowd-pleasing comedy is actually anxiously prescriptive, and it relies on an angelic and selfless sex worker to teach a middle-aged woman how to love her body.
The Work in Sex Work
Sex workers are like any other member of the working class — they're just trying to get by in the face of an unjust economic system.
An Attack on Sex Workers
FOSTA supporters say the bill would crack down on illegal sex trafficking. But the real victims would be sex workers.
Hollywood’s New Sex Worker Roles Are Girlboss Heroines
In Hollywood, sex workers have become the ultimate girlbosses. The message is clear: there’s no need for collective empowerment when one can escape the low-wage economy by cashing in on the power of bootstrapping entrepreneurism.
Remembering Margo St James, a Pioneering Sex Worker Organizer
The legacy of Margo St James, the trailblazing sex worker organizer who died earlier this month at 83, is more than her brazen personality, more than her bold and flamboyant tactics. She recognized that economic exploitation and gendered harassment are inextricably linked to police violence.
The New Abolitionist Model
Julie Bindel’s The Pimping of Prostitution puts sex workers in its crosshairs.
Bad Romance
Capitalism is bad at sex because it’s bad at relationships. Socialism can do better.
A Porn of Her Own
Anti-porn feminism takes away power from the women who make porn and want control of their work.
Prostitution Law and the Death of Whores
Why focus on laws and regulations aimed at controlling sex workers rather than recognizing their agency?
Katha Pollitt’s Quality Control
The nature of a product is irrelevant to how we should theorize, legislate, or organize the labor involved in producing it.
Somaly Mam, Nick Kristof, and the Cult of Personality
Focusing on individuals in sex work’s “rescue industry” avoids the structures that created a fraudulent movement.
Whores’ Glory
The reaction to a new film about sex workers tells us more about liberal reviewers than the workers themselves.
I Produce Adult Content on OnlyFans. Their Ban on Porn Will Hurt Me.
OnlyFans has announced that in October the site will ban adult content. Sex workers like me who depend on the platform for their livelihoods will be hit the hardest.
Work It
Simply saying we should improve the quality and reduce the duration of work doesn’t allow us to ask whether that work needs to exist at all.