Condoms don’t always prevent HSV2+ infections. Maybe you can write about that some time?

The reality of bareback sex belies the myth of choice that so many in the sex positive crowd like to impose on sex workers. We’re encouraged to write off sex workers for whom consistent condom use just isn’t a viable option by saying “that’s not sex work, that’s trafficking,” or “the VAST MAJORITY of sex workers would never work without a condom, we’re experts on safer sex, that’s what makes us better than hookups,” or “sex workers are not vectors of disease,” or “survival sex workers face that problem, but the VAST MAJORITY of us are here by choice.”

And it’s not that those statements aren’t true, at least some of the time. But when they’re pushed and pushed, to the exclusion of ever thinking about or planning, collectively, for the reality of barebacking, they harm us. I appreciate the courage you’ve shown by opening discussion of the taboo.