Why You Shouldn’t Study Sex Workers

This is an edited version of a post originally published on Lime Jello’s blog autocannibal.  Before I finished my B.A., I encountered a social worker who was working on her M.A. Her politics were generally pro-decriminalization, but she also liked to trade in horror stories about women whose vaginas fell out from having too much sex.… Continue reading Why You Shouldn’t Study Sex Workers

A Tunnel, Not A Door: Exiting Conditioned, Generational Sex Work

One of Lime Jello's ancestors? (Image via Wikipedia Commons)

This piece is adapted from a December 17th speech the author gave this year. “You’re so lazy, you’ll never be anything but a whore. And you won’t even be a good whore because nobody wants to fuck a girl with a book in front of her face.” When I was about twelve, as I lay… Continue reading A Tunnel, Not A Door: Exiting Conditioned, Generational Sex Work