Tag: clients

I Couldn’t Do It: Jeff and Sarah

(Lost Balloon by Ann Marshall, via Flickr and the Creative Commons)

Content warning—the following contains descriptions of underage sex work and an adult fantasizing about sexual activity with a pre-teenage child. I don’t know how I started seeing Jeff. I can’t remember meeting him, or what the first session was like, or what he looked like in clothes. I just remember when it turned. Jeff was… Continue reading I Couldn’t Do It: Jeff and Sarah

Man Calls Cops on Stripper That Won’t Screw Him: Stripping Isn’t Sex Work Lite

(Image via Flickr and the Creative Commons)

One of the brightest spots of sex work activism is when some bright-eyed bushy-tailed sex-worker-to-be finds her way into the space and wants to know the best way to get into our sordid business. “Come, little one! Join me in the fresh hellscape that is the business of selling sexual services,” I declare, fancying my… Continue reading Man Calls Cops on Stripper That Won’t Screw Him: Stripping Isn’t Sex Work Lite

I’m Special, Baby: The Sex Worker Edition of #notallmen

Not all clients are totally predictable.

Just as the rallying cry of men defending themselves from those mean, mean feminists seems to be, “Not ALL men!” so does the sex work client object to generalizations about him. In fact, the one thing all sex work clients have in common is that they all think they’re different, special, and  not like those… Continue reading I’m Special, Baby: The Sex Worker Edition of #notallmen

The Week In Links—April 18

Celebrated trans author and ex-sex worker Janet Mock shows her support for Monica Jones. (Photo via the Telegraph)

  Dr. Brooke Magnanti adds her voice to the chorus of people who are outraged and horrified by Project ROSE and the way the U.S. treats its sex workers. Reason also posted a feature on Monica Jones’ case (citing Tits and Sass’ interview with her!) focusing on the vague “manifestation of prostitution” law used to trump up… Continue reading The Week In Links—April 18

The Week In Links—April 11

Monica Jones addresses a crowd of her supporters before her court date today: "Because you walk a certain way, because you look a certain way they can arrest you for manifestation...We will not tolerate the profiling of trans women of color." (Photo via SWOP-Phoenix's twitter account)

Monica Jones’ latest court date is today. Jones, an Arizona State University student, was targeted for arrest after she attended a SWOP-Phoenix protest against an oppressive diversion program, Project ROSE, backed by her own social work program. She was set up on charges of “manifesting prostitution”, but the ACLU constitutionally challenged her case at her… Continue reading The Week In Links—April 11