Earlier this year, The New Inquiry published this quiz, “Are You Being Sex Trafficked?” which appeared in an earlier form here on Tits and Sass. Katha Pollitt hinged part of her “Why Do So Many Leftists Want Sex Work to Be the New Normal?” essay on the imagined qualities of TNI’s writers and audience: Of course,… Continue reading I’m Katha Pollitt’s “Highly Educated” Leftist—And A Sex Trafficking Victim
Category: This Time, It’s Personal
Who Makes Your Money: WePay and Eden Alexander
Eden Alexander’s current fundraiser is live here. This weekend, a Twitterstorm erupted when payment processor WePay shut down a medical fundraiser for porn performer Eden Alexander. Alexander found herself in an unforgiving position after the complications she experienced from an allergic reaction to a prescription drug were misdiagnosed when a doctor assumed that since she was… Continue reading Who Makes Your Money: WePay and Eden Alexander
Sex Worker/Social Worker: An Ethics Roundtable
Monica Jones was both a student in and a target of the Arizona State School of Social Work when she was arrested in a sweep that was part of Project ROSE, the prostitution diversion program that’s a partnership between the school and the Phoenix PD. We asked sex workers who, like Monica, are students in or… Continue reading Sex Worker/Social Worker: An Ethics Roundtable
Loving Don Draper: Economics and Intimacy in an Abolitionist World
I Let’s admit it; the job does follow us home. Instead of protesting otherwise, we should claim the potential insight and knowledge of using what we learn and practice while working in our personal lives . While we rightfully contest the ways in which abolitionists frame us as the walking dead—victims who must disassociate to perform… Continue reading Loving Don Draper: Economics and Intimacy in an Abolitionist World
Aw, You Shouldn’t Have: A Compendium of the Odd Gifts We Receive
Sex work comes with a lot of fringe perks: convenient hours, creative work uniforms, and basically having the coolest job on the planet. One of the lesser-known perks of sex work are the gifts we receive: the tokens of appreciation that the men that favor us hand out around the holidays. Most of the time… Continue reading Aw, You Shouldn’t Have: A Compendium of the Odd Gifts We Receive