February 2012
22 posts
Anonymous asked: There are some women working as prostitutes because they have to, i do not blame them. they are sex slaves, it is estimated that today there are more than 1 million sex slaves (including children) it is very sad. people i blame are those, doing this "job" because they get better money. of course it is cool to have a job where you only have to open your legs for less than 30 mins and then...
I have decided to stop posting on Sex Work is Real Work, despite receiving many responses telling me to keep it. I have wanted to for several months now, but I couldn’t quite let go of it. When I created this blog, it was just for me and the few people that I thought would read it (i.e. my friends). However, this blog has turned into a much bigger deal that I had anticipated, and I just...
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Poll: What should I do with my blog?
Delete it: allies shouldn’t be posting about the sex industry.
Keep it: I like what you post.
Keep it: I like what you post, but you could improve it (message me with details).
Change the focus of your blog (message me with details).
Other (message me with details).
Anonymous asked: Hi it's the same girl from before, I think I sounded a bit mean in the last message & didn't really get my point across, I just mean i'd hate the idea of some wee girl seeing this blog and thinking "yeah i'll be a prostitute, it's real work, i'll be fine." Because honestly sex work is not just a regular job. I've been raped, beaten, and called every...
Anonymous asked: I know you are only trying to help, and i'm sorry if this comes off as rude, but as a sex worker I just find this pretty humiliating. We're not just some damn university essay topic, and i'm really embarrassed that you think of us as people who need someone to stand up for us, especially some one who's never done sex work. Until you've had to resort to that, you'll...
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Dear Academics,
You need to stop abusing sex workers for knowledge, money, and fame. If sex workers are being so generous as to offer you their time, energy, and personal insight into a taboo subject, you better find a way to give back. Historically, academics have used sex workers for their own professional benefits, while sex workers would receive nothing in return. That type of behavior is unethical and...
Being accepted into a Jesuit university to study the sex industry astounds me.
That just happened to me ~
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Audacia Ray: Things I Once Valued But Now Think... →
audaciaray:
I haven’t blogged step-by-step about all the things that have changed in my brain over the last couple of years with regards to the work and activism I’ve been involved with for the last decade. But things have shifted a lot for me, and hopefully also in how I do my work (forget about intentions, its all about actions). Lists are hip on the internets these days, right? So here’s...
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Anonymous asked: Hi. Me: Feminist for 10 yrs, sex-worker for 15 yrs. I 've never taken an anti-porn/anti-sex/anti-whatever-consenting-ppl-do-with-their-bodies stance. Perhaps b/c I found feminism via sex-work my exp. is unique, but I've seen anti-SW feminism at most 2 or 3 times in 10 yrs. Yet anti-feminist SWs hatred of feminists abounds. My ?s are: where do you find rabidly anti-SW fems, & how do...
"Some feminists want to stop men from seeing all... →
Great article. It’s a must read.
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“Feminist anti-prostitution rhetoric contradicts the principles of...”
– To the would-be sex work abolitionist, or, ‘ain’t I a woman’? | rabble.ca
This is an amazing article by the way.
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“When someone tells me she has feminist concerns with sex work, knowing that sex...”
– To the would-be sex work abolitionist, or, ‘ain’t I a woman’? | rabble.ca
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Porn’s taboo transsexual stars: "T-girls" are... →
Brittany St. Jordan, a 28-year-old leggy redhead in a plunging gold number, was all dressed up with somewhere to go: the Adult Video News Awards, the so-called “Oscars for the porn industry.” But she ended up standing in line for three hours waiting to walk the red carpet, as other female performers were sent ahead. When she finally got her turn, event organizers directed her away from...
Audacia Ray: Sex workers: deadline for submitting... →
audaciaray:
Do you want to present at 2012 International AIDS Conference in DC this July? Would you like to co-present with other sex workers? Do you want to present but do not want to do an entire workshop? Are you interested in on criminalization and HIV, sex work and trafficking, HIV medical model,…
“Sex work is not inherently wrong. Sex work is not inherently dangerous. Sex work...”
– an excerpt from this wonderful piece on sex work from Bitch magazine. (via thestepswetook)
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New study shows there is no link between huge... →
The claim sex work will increase is perpetuated in part because it is useful as a fundraising strategy, as a way to grab attention and be seen to “do something” about trafficking, and as a more socially acceptable guise for prostitution abolitionist agendas and anti-immigration agendas, the report said.
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“Um, I’m going to say some dirty words that I don’t like, and talk about...”
– qvaken - Comment on: A few lite thoughts on rape and prostitution
(via andythenerd)