Condemning oppressive clients only when they are bad customers of paid sex is missing the point—or do you think that they don’t treat other workers the same way when they can get away with it? Wouldn’t an abusive, bullying porn director be an abusive, bullying grocery store manager? I’ve been talked down to and pushed… Continue reading Quote of the Week
Tag: Labor
The Week In Links—August 2nd
A piece in Australian lit mag Overland republished in the Guardian declares that the author “feels uneasy about sex work” but has “changed her mind” about it because “it’s not about me.” Uh, nice start, we guess? It’s interesting how many times the article employs the personal pronoun after its declaration that sex work is… Continue reading The Week In Links—August 2nd
The Week In Links: December 7
A man asks his prostitute to “turn my life upside down with your whimsical joie de vivre” in the hilarious short “Manic Pixie Prostitute.” “I wrote you a song on this midget guitar!” The Fokken twins, 50-year veteran prostitutes in Amsterdam, are national celebrities and sex advice agony aunts after the popularity of a documentary… Continue reading The Week In Links: December 7