The Gender Commission for Equality’s report last week supporting the decriminalization of prostitution has been covered in a variety of venues, from Sowetan Live to All Africa, SABC News and an editorial in favor of the idea in the Star. South African sex workers welcomed the GCE’s call, with sex worker run orgs SWEAT and Sisonke leading the… Continue reading The Week In Links-May 24th
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Quote of the Week
One thing I want everyone to understand is that when ppl scream abt how empowering [sex work] is, they are reacting directly to whorephobia. It does not mean our work is abt sex rather than economics. It means you have left them no room for a complicated relationship with work or any possible other paradigms.… Continue reading Quote of the Week
The Week In Links–May 17th
The San Francisco Bay Guardian profiles this year’s Sex Worker Film and Arts Festival, focusing on contributions by festival co-founder Carol Leigh/Scarlot Harlot, Mariko Passion, James Darling, Siouxsie Q, Juba Kalamka, Courtney Trouble, Amber Dawn, and Rhiannon Argo. Toro Hashimoto, mayor of Osaka, outraged pretty much everyone this Monday when he stated publicly that the sexual services… Continue reading The Week In Links–May 17th
Stacks & Cats
I’m Lucy and I’m an LA based dominatrix. Here’s The ever elegant Mr. Javier swimming in a sea of money I made for my upcoming trip to Berlin. Keep up the excellent work and I’ll do the same 🙂 Sex workers, send us your pictures of your dogs and dollars or cats and stacks to info@titsandsass.com.… Continue reading Stacks & Cats
Quotes of the Week–Special Doubleheader Edition
We don’t need to polarize people’s experiences in the sex trade. We need a better understanding of those experiences in all of their complexities. I feel like I get sucked into this debate where I have to argue that lots of different parts of the sex trade exist, over and over again. What is the… Continue reading Quotes of the Week–Special Doubleheader Edition