February 2011
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The Johns: Sex for Sale and the Men Who Buy It |...
I am barely three pages into this book, and I have already decided that I hate it. Victor Malarek has made the broad generalization that people in the sex trade are not there by choice and that everyone in the industry are there as “the ultimate act of desperation” in order to survive. He ignores the fact that many people enter the sex industry as a career choice because they see the...
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The Super Bowl Prostitute Myth: 100,000 Hookers... →
An article that dispels the myth that many underage prostitutes will be working during the Superbowl. It argues that the Superbowl is a horrible time to be working as a prostitute (whether or not you are of age).
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WatchLast video today! This is Prostitution Free Zone by PJ Starr about the anti-prostitution laws in D.C.
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“As a feminist, I know my freedom is limited as long as whores are stigmatized...”
– Gail Pheterson, A Vindication of the Rights of Whores, 1989.
If you can get a hold of this book, I highly suggest you do so and read it. Listen to the voices of women who have been in the industry.
(via malefeministandthenakedsamba)
January 2011
65 posts
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Asking for favors
Hey everyone,
I try to keep my personal life out of this blog, but now the two are going to mesh. Right now I am doing an independent study at university that allows me to conduct my own research project on male escorts who service women. I am in the process of collecting forums to post the link to my survey to, but I also figured I would see how many of you know heterosexual male escorts as...
greenbean- asked: your blog is amazing. i am lost for words.
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Study aims to expose adult sex industry | The... →
Click the link for more info.
I think this study is really interesting. It is making me want to apply to the University of Ottawa for graduate school. Hmm…
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Dirty Girl Zine →
A zine written by sex workers on the stigmas of being a sex worker. I haven’t read it all the way through yet, but I can tell that it’s a brilliant piece of work. The download time is long, but worth the wait if you love zines and sex workers and being dirty. Get down with your bad self and read this!
NSFW. I mean it. There is a lot of nudity in this zine.
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Hello, new & old followers!
I wanted to bring your attention to my ask button and the submit button! Feel free to submit anything you find relevant to my blog; I will explore all submissions and post the appropriate ones. I am always on the look-out for things that are related to sex workers’ rights, quotes, and general media and information. If you find something you think would be appropriate for this blog, please...
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“Of course there are friends, women who are feminists and do understand, support...”
– Pieke Biermann, A Vindication of the Rights of Whores, 1989. (via malefeministandthenakedsamba)
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“It is the automatic assumption that an industrial sex technician is a) a drug...”
– David Henry Sterry, Hos, Hookers, Call Girls, and Rent Boys page 3
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Advice to clients of prostitutes from The...
“Make clear agreements” with the prostitute.
“Take into account that the prostitute has her own limits” on the services to be provided.
“A contact can be less than successful, often through unfamiliarity with each other. Take this into account and don’t be disappointed.”
“Remain reasonable in a situation where conflict arises and leave it for...
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“,The problem with prostitution is the way it’s organized as a business. ...”
– Jo Doezema, a sex worker and prostitutes’ rights activist in Amsterdam, from page 196 in Ronald Weitzer’s Sex for Sale
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Official oppression earns ex-cop a year behind... →
A former San Antonio police officer accused of raping a transsexual prostitute while on duty was ordered Tuesday to spend a year in jail. Read more: http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/article/Official-oppression-earnsex-cop-a-year-behind-bars-963942.php#ixzz1BntmAM00
via Audacia Ray
I think he should be serving far more jail time for his atrocities. Just goes to show how much law...
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Stepping Stone →
Stepping Stone is a charitable not for profit organization that offers supportive programs and outreach to women, men and transgender sex workers and former sex workers.
This is a new website I discovered today. You should click the link and check out their awesome new ad campaign!
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Traffic Jams: Trading Dignity for Protection in... →
As we’ve reported previously, a continual debate surrounding sex trafficking is how to talk about sex work as work. While some groups believe all prostitution is inherently exploitative and criminal, many advocates understand that people can and often do engage in sex work voluntarily—whether they’re escorts, strippers, or selling sex on the street. But recognizing them as full...
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To all the girls who envy my life: As an escort, I... →
Sadly, the national debate on prostitution could more accurately be described as a shouting match. Any sex worker’s account of his or her own life that doesn’t involve drug addiction, abuse and tragedy is often immediately derided as sensationalistic, dishonest and dangerously misrepresentative by those who are categorically opposed to the sex industry. Prostitution is denigrated...
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Strip club ettiquette →
dr-clear-heels:
1. if you don’t have money, dont come.
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Insist on Yourself: Part Forty of...? (Facts) →
iwatchtheworldoutside:
FACT: In the U.S., prostitutes get busted more often than johns. And it’s not even close. Every year in the U.S., between 70,000 and 80,000 people are busted for prostitution. (Which costs taxpayers $200 million, by the way.) The breakdown of arrests: 70 percent female prostitutes and…
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“If we allow society to define and confine us, then sex workers are degraded.”
– Iwatchtheworldoutside, from Part Thirty Nine of…? (Degrading…and for Whom)
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Hey folks, would you like to recommend my blog? →
After you click the link, please check “politics.”
Thanks ever so much to those who recommend me. To those who do not, you are still awesome and thanks for following my blog.
Take care everyone.
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Sex work: The ultimate dirty job →
An interview with David Henry Sterry, the author of Hos, Hookers, Call Girls, and Rent Boys. This book is a collection of stories written by sex workers about their lives and the sex industry. Sterry does a great job trying to give voices to many different kinds of people in his novel, from street-based sex workers to high-end escorts.
I personally really love this book (and David Henry Sterry,...
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Merseyside police: 'Sex workers are vulnerable. We... →
dr-clear-heels:
‘You never know when you get into a car with a man, whether you’re going to be raped or paid’ – Julie, sex worker. Photograph: Howard Barlow
Living proof that police and sex workers can work well together! Cha cha cha.
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A Natural History of the Prostitute | Amanda... →
This article discusses the possibility that some women are genetically programmed to be prostitutes. It’s an interesting read. Check it out! Link is NSFW.
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“The lack of attention to violence as a threat to the male sex worker may be...”
– Jeffery P. Dennis (2008), Women are Victims, Men Make Choices: The Invisibility of Men and Boys in the Global Sex Trade, page 18
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Catherine!: Health Insurance for Sex Workers →
hicatherine:
Sex workers in Kolkata (Calcutta) are about to gain access to public health insurance plans.
If you know me in the real world, you know its my dream to go to India and study their sex work system, since I find the way its handled by law enforcement to be similar to ours. Maybe this will provide…
This is awesome. Maybe some other countries will follow their example?
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“What is demonstrably more dangerous than sex work is intimate partnership....”
– juliet november (via ourcatastrophe)
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Local News | Teen missing after testimony against... →
This isn’t the kind of article I usually post, but this one particularly struck me. For one, it’s in my local area (Seattle/Portland), but it also further shows the lack of empathy the law enforcement has towards sex workers, especially prostitutes. Kelsey Collins, the girl/woman featured in this article, was a teen prostitute. She went missing after she testified against her pimp....
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Black exotic dancers: undervalued and underpaid →
Even in the most feminist of desire industries, such as the Lusty Lady strip club in San Francisco whose workers successfully unionized in the late ’90s, the erotic value of black bodies remains decidedly unequal to those of white ones, writes Siobhan Brooks.
13 December 2010
You have to try harder to talk to the customers and ease them into buying a lap dance from you, smile at them, engage...
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Myths About Prostitutes: Separating Fact from... →
FICTION: Prostitutes set themselves up for violence.
FACT: Nobody asks to be assaulted. The fact that many prostitutes are intimidated by the police prevents them from reporting acts of violence against them, and perpetrators know this. Anti-prostitute laws and social attitudes set prostitutes up for violence.
FICTION: Prostitutes are victims.
FACT: Some “recovery” programs...
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Chinese sex workers protest against crackdown |... →
A crackdown on China’s fast-growing sex industry has prompted a backlash, with sex workers demonstrating for the legalisation of prostitution and an outcry about the treatment of women suspects.
The protest in Wuhan, central Hubei province, is thought to have been the first of its kind in the country. The small group of women asked onlookers to sign a petition calling for an end to...
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Hookers and Fat Kids (On fatphobia and state... →
Walking back into the house with a new red satin teddy for tomorrow’s two-hour booking, I glanced down at the Sydney Morning Herald and spotted the two headlines: “Cancer deaths much higher for Aborigines” (no shit, we needed another study to tell us that colonialism is bad for Indigenous people’s health?) and directly below it, this headline:“Girl, 12, turns her life around after removal...
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Mauritius: Sex Workers Demand Rights - 3rd of... →
leonineclaire:
“Sex workers rights are human rights”, close to a hundred people shouted during a recent march in Rose-Hill, a major town in Mauritius. Their aim was to sensitise the population, particularly the parliamentarians, to the state of sex workers on the island.
Beaten by their clients and even by police officers, looked down upon by the public and ill treated at hospitals and in...
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Gina de Vries: SEX WORKERS' WRITING WORKSHOP and... →
queershoulder:
Peoples! Tomorrow (Saturday) you can get a double-whammy dose of de Vries! Come write with me from 2-4pm at Sex Workers’ Writing Workshop, and then come see me read at Perverts Put Out! at 7:30. Both events are at the very awesome Center for Sex & Culture. C’mon & come out y’all! Also: In…
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“The worst thing [about escorting] is the emotional toll that it takes on you. A...”
– Adrian, Gigolos: The Secret Lives of Men who Service Women, page 164
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Hello, followers!
I wanted to bring your attention to my new ask button and the submit button! Feel free to submit anything you find relevant to my blog; I will explore all submissions and post the appropriate ones. You are also free to ask me questions about what I know about sex work, and I will try my best to answer or will direct you to a place that would have the answer for you. Hope all of you are doing...
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A List of Resources →
I don’t know if you’ve seen this, but this is a list of harm reduction - sex work resources. Maybe some can find it useful?
Thank you! I am currently subscribed to $pread Magazine, and it’s really awesome — worth every penny. It’s created by sex workers for other sex workers and allies. You have a huge variety of things to appeal to every kind of reader....