Comments on: Who Gets Left Out: Respectability Politics Round Table, Part Two https://titsandsass.com/who-gets-left-out-respectability-politics-round-table-part-two/ By and about sex workers Thu, 17 Oct 2013 01:26:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Who Gets Left Out: Respectability Politics Round Table, Part One https://titsandsass.com/who-gets-left-out-respectability-politics-round-table-part-two/#comment-12252 Wed, 02 Oct 2013 12:08:07 +0000 https://titsandsass.com/?p=14254#comment-12252 […] You can read the second part of this dialogue here. […]

]]> By: BP https://titsandsass.com/who-gets-left-out-respectability-politics-round-table-part-two/#comment-12244 Wed, 02 Oct 2013 01:04:18 +0000 https://titsandsass.com/?p=14254#comment-12244 “Someone may be an independent sex worker, doing work out of her volition one day, and then run into a bad situation and owe a bunch of money and so the overarching structure that she is participating in the sex industry in shifts.”

I really appreciate this statement and relate to it. My personal relationship with sex work and agency/consent has fluctuated on a spectrum from “fun and easy way to make extra money for luxury items” to “pure act of desperation to survive, made under financial duress, and essentially experienced as rape.” All dependent on my circumstances.

There are happy hookers and traffiked victims and I tend to think there are so many SWs who fall between these two poles and whose situations change throughout our lifetimes so conceptualizing a sort of “spectrum of consent” has been useful to me.

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