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		<title>Sex Workers: YOU CAN AND SHOULD REQUEST PANDEMIC RELIEF</title>
		<link>https://titsandsass.com/sex-workers-you-can-and-should-request-pandemic-relief/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bubbles]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2020 15:43:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[So we&#8217;re about a month into strip clubs being shut down. Before that, most in-person sex workers had already been worried about the potential of getting or spreading COVID-19 (the illness caused by the coronavirus) at work, and probably noticed a significant dip in business. Most times we&#8217;d be SOL when it comes to accessing&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/sex-workers-you-can-and-should-request-pandemic-relief/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Sex Workers: YOU CAN AND SHOULD REQUEST PANDEMIC RELIEF</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Bareback: Re-Opening The Dialogue On Safer Sex In The Age of U=U</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Laura LeMoon]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2018 16:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Bareback sex feels fucking amazing. I know, we’re not supposed to talk about that. We’re not supposed to talk about bareback fucking without following it up with that ubiquitous “but use a condom!” statement. However, many communities face significant barriers to condom use and have very legitimate reasons for foregoing them&#8212;and these are the communities&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/bareback-re-opening-the-dialogue-on-safer-sex-in-the-age-of-uu/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Bareback: Re-Opening The Dialogue On Safer Sex In The Age of U=U</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>We&#8217;re Not Crazy For Doing This: Sex Workers With Mental Illness</title>
		<link>https://titsandsass.com/were-not-crazy-for-doing-this-sex-workers-with-mental-illness/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Laura LeMoon]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2017 16:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Most people have some form of a lurid narrative about drugs, exploitation, childhood abuse, and mental illness come to mind when they imagine the life of a sex worker. However, sex workers’ relationships to their identity are far more complex and difficult to characterize than that trite narrative allows for. When it comes to sex&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/were-not-crazy-for-doing-this-sex-workers-with-mental-illness/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">We&#8217;re Not Crazy For Doing This: Sex Workers With Mental Illness</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Ask Ms. Harm Reduction: Getting High With Clients</title>
		<link>https://titsandsass.com/ask-ms-harm-reduction-getting-high-with-clients/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ms. Harm Reduction]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2015 14:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Dear Ms. Harm Reduction, I’ve been escorting and doing pro domme work for a year and a half. Sometimes I do a gram of coke with regulars, or even do drugs with new clients on occasion. I’d like to be smart about this, but I feel like I can’t ask the the sex workers I&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/ask-ms-harm-reduction-getting-high-with-clients/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Ask Ms. Harm Reduction: Getting High With Clients</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Healthcare Hustle</title>
		<link>https://titsandsass.com/the-healthcare-hustle/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Danielle Blunt]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2015 14:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Danielle is the Care Coordinator for Persist Health Project. Persist Health Project is a peer-led, community-based health and community organizing project for sex workers based in Brooklyn, New York. As Persist&#8217;s Care Coordinator, Danielle vets service providers, provides community members with supportive referrals, and helps lead Persist’s Best Practices Trainings. While many of us dream&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/the-healthcare-hustle/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">The Healthcare Hustle</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Ask Ms. Harm Reduction: She&#8217;s Pregnant and on Dope</title>
		<link>https://titsandsass.com/ask-ms-harm-reduction-shes-pregnant-and-on-dope/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ms. Harm Reduction]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2015 15:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[All the queries Ms. Harm Reduction answers are actual questions from readers. If you have a quandary related to drugs, sex, work, or any of the other pitfalls and pleasures of life that you need Ms. Harm Reduction’s solution for, please write in at info@titsandsass.com. Dear Ms. Harm Reduction, I&#8217;m a recovering addict/alcoholic stripper (20&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/ask-ms-harm-reduction-shes-pregnant-and-on-dope/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Ask Ms. Harm Reduction: She&#8217;s Pregnant and on Dope</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Truth Will Come Out: An Interview With Jill Brenneman and Amanda Brooks</title>
		<link>https://titsandsass.com/the-truth-will-come-out-an-interview-with-jill-brenneman-and-amanda-brooks/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[suzyhooker]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2014 18:23:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Interview co-authored by Josephine and Caty Content warning—the following contains descriptions of extreme injuries and rape suffered by two sex workers due to a campaign of violence by an abusive client, as well as an account of child abuse. Jill Brenneman and Amanda Brooks are veterans and heroines of the sex workers’ rights movement.  As&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/the-truth-will-come-out-an-interview-with-jill-brenneman-and-amanda-brooks/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">The Truth Will Come Out: An Interview With Jill Brenneman and Amanda Brooks</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Dear Ms. Harm Reduction: Make Them Wear Condoms</title>
		<link>https://titsandsass.com/dear-ms-harm-reduction-make-them-wear-condoms/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ms. Harm Reduction]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2014 17:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Dear Ms. Harm Reduction, I am transitioning into full service work, and need help getting clients to use condoms. One sugar daddy in particular has had a vasectomy, and a recent clean test, so he prefers no condoms for any activity. But I still feel uncomfortable with this. How can I negotiate to protect myself?&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/dear-ms-harm-reduction-make-them-wear-condoms/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Dear Ms. Harm Reduction: Make Them Wear Condoms</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>PrEP: What It Is and How Sex Workers Can Use It</title>
		<link>https://titsandsass.com/prep-what-it-is-and-how-sex-workers-can-use-it/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lindsay Roth]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2014 14:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Lindsay Roth cowrote this post with sex worker ally and colleague Cassie Warren. Roth and Warren work together at PxROAR (Research, Outreach, Advocacy, and Representation), a program for community activists which offers training and support around biomedical HIV prevention research and advocacy. Readers can contact them with questions about PrEP at lindsay@swopusa.org and cassandra.r.warren@gmail.com. So&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/prep-what-it-is-and-how-sex-workers-can-use-it/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">PrEP: What It Is and How Sex Workers Can Use It</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Ask Ms. Harm Reduction: I Have Herpes</title>
		<link>https://titsandsass.com/ask-ms-harm-reduction-i-have-herpes/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ms. Harm Reduction]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2014 14:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://titsandsass.com/?p=17704</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Dear Ms. Harm Reduction, About six months ago I had my first ever genital herpes outbreak. I am a cis female and a full service provider. I don&#8217;t do bareback, but I do still continue to work. I am on herbal suppressive therapy (lysine, other immune boosters and stress management) and haven&#8217;t had an outbreak&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/ask-ms-harm-reduction-i-have-herpes/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Ask Ms. Harm Reduction: I Have Herpes</span></a>]]></description>
		
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