Jealousy Is Not An Excuse: Monogamous Norms and Partner Violence Against Sex Workers

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I am non-monogamous by choice, not just by de facto circumstance because of the fact that I am an escort. I live with one of my serious partners, and have a few other partners and sexy friends. I’ve never been suited to monogamy, and sex work has always played a role in that for me.… Continue reading Jealousy Is Not An Excuse: Monogamous Norms and Partner Violence Against Sex Workers

John Franc Wants Us Hooked (2011)

“We were all monsters” the nameless narrator tells us four sentences into Hooked by John Franc. The “we” refers to nine men who live in a city where prostitution is conveniently legal and when the men learn this fact, they begin a downward, hooker-hopping spiral of frightening velocity that ends in the most melodramatic plot… Continue reading John Franc Wants Us Hooked (2011)