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		<title>When Will It Be #TimesUp For Rapist Cops? #MeToo And Sex Workers</title>
		<link>https://titsandsass.com/when-will-it-be-timesup-for-rapist-cops-metoo-and-sex-workers/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lizzy Starr]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Feb 2018 15:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[#metoo]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gloria Steinem]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lizzy starr]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Content warning: This piece contains general discussion of sexual assault and state violence.  Last week, Time Magazine published a story about sex worker exclusion from the #metoo phenomenon. Sex workers are a criminalized population vulnerable to sexual assault, composed of people oppressed in many intersectional ways, so the inaccessibility of this newly popularized movement against&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/when-will-it-be-timesup-for-rapist-cops-metoo-and-sex-workers/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">When Will It Be #TimesUp For Rapist Cops? #MeToo And Sex Workers</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Daniel Holtzclaw, Black Women, And The Myth of Police Protection</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[N'jaila Rhee]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2015 15:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jamie Ligons]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[N'jaila Rhee]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Content warning: this piece contains general discussion of rape. On his 29th birthday, December 10th, former Oklahoma City Police officer Daniel Holtzclaw, who targeted low income, criminalized Black women and girls for sexual assault while on duty, was found guilty of 18 of the 36 charges brought against him. He now faces up to 263&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/daniel-holtzclaw-black-women-and-the-myth-of-police-protection/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Daniel Holtzclaw, Black Women, And The Myth of Police Protection</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>What Media Coverage of James Deen&#8217;s Assaults Means For Sex Workers</title>
		<link>https://titsandsass.com/a-sigh-of-relief-what-media-coverage-of-james-deens-assaults-mean-for-sex-workers/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cyd Nova]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2015 15:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Porn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Consent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cyd Nova]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Deen]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Content warning: this piece contains general discussion of rape. I got a call from a reporter from Mother Jones the other day, her voice nervous. She was one of the many journalists who called the sex worker health clinic I work at, St. James Infirmary, looking for comments about the public sexual assault accusations made&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/a-sigh-of-relief-what-media-coverage-of-james-deens-assaults-mean-for-sex-workers/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">What Media Coverage of James Deen&#8217;s Assaults Means For Sex Workers</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>When Feminism Is A Brand</title>
		<link>https://titsandsass.com/when-feminism-is-a-brand/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kitty Stryker]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2015 15:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Porn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[allies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ashley Fires]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bad allies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Consent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[feminism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Deen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joanna Angel]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kitty Stryker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kori Peters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[male feminism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[porn]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[This piece was originally posted by the author on Medium. Content warning: the links in this post lead to articles detailing the rape and sexual assault of sex workers. We need to talk about the ever increasing number of men like James Deen who utilize feminism as a marketable identity to cover up their abusive&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/when-feminism-is-a-brand/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">When Feminism Is A Brand</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>&#8220;You&#8217;re So Brave!&#8221;: Pro Sub Stigma And Its Discontents</title>
		<link>https://titsandsass.com/youre-so-brave-pro-sub-stigma-and-its-discontents/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Audrey More]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2015 15:34:33 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Fetish]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Audrey More]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[pro-switch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rape culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Serpent Libertine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stigma]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Working as a professional submissive often makes you feel like an outsider. Pro-subs and pro-switches are a relatively rare breed of service provider, which makes our work feel pretty esoteric from the get go. For every one of us, there are many more vanilla, in-person, indoor workers. In part, this could be because the need&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/youre-so-brave-pro-sub-stigma-and-its-discontents/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">&#8220;You&#8217;re So Brave!&#8221;: Pro Sub Stigma And Its Discontents</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Shoplifting Safety: How Civilians Deny The Consent of Sex Workers</title>
		<link>https://titsandsass.com/shoplifting-safety-how-civilians-deny-the-consent-of-sex-workers/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Petra]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2015 15:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[mary mitchell]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[rape]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Content warning: this piece contains discussion of sexual violence. You may have read the recent editorial in the Chicago Sun-Times, an opinion piece in which Mary Mitchell argues that sex workers who are raped by a client are making a mockery of “real” rape survivors by even considering what happened to them to be sexual assault.&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/shoplifting-safety-how-civilians-deny-the-consent-of-sex-workers/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Shoplifting Safety: How Civilians Deny The Consent of Sex Workers</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>How Did Mary Mitchell Blame The Victim And Still Get Published?</title>
		<link>https://titsandsass.com/how-did-mary-mitchell-blame-the-victim-and-still-get-published/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cara Cassady]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2015 14:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Backpage]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[cara cassady]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sheriff Tom Dart]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Content warning: this piece contains discussion of sexual violence. By now, most reading this are probably familiar with Mary Mitchell’s Chicago Sun-Times column in which she editorializes that sex workers are responsible if they are raped, for they willingly put themselves “at risk for harm”—as if the rape of a sex worker is an occupational&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/how-did-mary-mitchell-blame-the-victim-and-still-get-published/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">How Did Mary Mitchell Blame The Victim And Still Get Published?</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Jealousy Is Not An Excuse: Monogamous Norms and Partner Violence Against Sex Workers</title>
		<link>https://titsandsass.com/jealousy-is-not-an-excuse-monogamous-norms-and-partner-violence-against-sex-workers/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kitten Karlyle]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christy Mack]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kitten Karlyle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[misogyny]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[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.&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/jealousy-is-not-an-excuse-monogamous-norms-and-partner-violence-against-sex-workers/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Jealousy Is Not An Excuse: Monogamous Norms and Partner Violence Against Sex Workers</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Second Shittiest Thing About Being Abused: Survivor Solidarity And Getting Out</title>
		<link>https://titsandsass.com/the-shittiest-thing-about-being-abused-survivor-solidarity-and-getting-out/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Electra Fyre]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2014 14:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christy Mack]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Electra Fyre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[misogyny]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I actually didn&#8217;t know who Christy Mack was until I started seeing articles about her attack flying around the internet last week. But her story is one that is familiar to me. Intimately familiar. I stripped for eight years, in a dozen clubs across New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Iowa, Minnesota, Colorado, and Georgia. I met&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/the-shittiest-thing-about-being-abused-survivor-solidarity-and-getting-out/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">The Second Shittiest Thing About Being Abused: Survivor Solidarity And Getting Out</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Sex Work and Partner Violence: How We&#8217;re Forced To Negotiate Our Own Abuse</title>
		<link>https://titsandsass.com/sex-work-and-partner-violence-how-were-forced-to-negotiate-our-own-abuse/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ruby Rue]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2014 14:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Editor&#8217;s note: This post was originally erroneously attributed to Victoria Joy. The piece is actually by Ruby Rue. Victims of violence are more likely to have experienced violence at the hands of someone they know. The same goes for sex workers. There seems to be a lot more concern about stranger-danger in the industry than&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://titsandsass.com/sex-work-and-partner-violence-how-were-forced-to-negotiate-our-own-abuse/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Sex Work and Partner Violence: How We&#8217;re Forced To Negotiate Our Own Abuse</span></a>]]></description>
		
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