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Here is a list of resources to learn about sex worker from actual sex workers who are engaged in the struggle for worker’s rights:
- https://www.nswp.org/resources/types/nswp-briefing-papers-248
- https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-trafficking-and-slavery/white-mans-burden-revisited/
- https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-trafficking-and-slavery/from-brothel-to-sweatshop-questions-on-labour-trafficking-in-camb/
- https://titsandsass.com/the-massage-parlor-means-survival-here-red-canary-song-on-robert-kraft/
- https://medium.com/purplerose0666/the-af3irm-agenda-b5ec31216904
- https://medium.com/@katezenjoy/dear-esperanza-5aa7db4d501a
- https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-trafficking-and-slavery/decriminalising-sex-work-in-new-zealand-its-history-and-impact/
- https://www.mayamorena.com/anti-equality-model-campaign/2021/5/22/pscegcnr680fh4oazlmwe8i5527o9j
Bigger repo of theory / resources:
Books to check out:
but there is no conclusion one can rationally draw about the majority of prostitution in countries like the US except that it is social rape [in the sense of social murder].
holy fucking shit this is a gross and deeply sexist take. Most sex workers are consenting and actively choosing to do that work.
Shifting back to the term “sex work” is a solidarity statement. It’s also the term chosen by many workers who chose to have sex with individual people for a living. That is the type of job the woman in the video I posted works in. The workers doing a job get to decide what they call it.
Fully legalizing sex work solves most of the issues around client violence, workplace accidents, healthcare, and state violence.
There is nothing sexist about my claim.
Calling sex work “social rape” is fucking sexist.
