Sex Work

A Brief Reflection on Sex Work

Erika L. Sánchez | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: Women's Rights, Prostitution, Sex Work, Women, Sex Trafficking, Sex, Women Body, Latino Voices News

I never intended to look at sex workers as an othering voyeur, but rather as a woman who is both genuinely curious, empathetic, and outraged at the conditions that force them into this kind of work.

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The Girlfriend Experience

Kitty Stryker | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Sex Work, Love and Relationships, Love, Sex Workers, Sex Workers Love, Sex Worker Client Relationships, Sex Workers Relationships, Gay Voices News

I wrote a post last week about the reality of being a sex worker in a relationship, explaining that it's sometimes good, sometimes hard, often complicated. Well, I have intimate experience with one of the greatest media-fed taboos in sex-worker romances: I fell in love with a client once.

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What It's Like To Be A Sex Worker In Love

Kitty Stryker | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Healthy Relationships, Social Justice, Queer, Relationships, Sex Workers, Sex, Sex Work, Love, Communication, Gay Voices News

The media says that if you are a person in the sex industry, even one who consensually entered sex work, you will always have to make a choice between love and work. Sex workers, you see, cannot afford to love. I say that's crap.

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Poll Position: Should Prostituion Be Legal? Vote Now!

Posted 04.13.2012

Read More: Lgbt, Prostitution, Poll Position, Rent Boys, Sex Workers, The Hookie Awards, Legalize Prostitution, Sex Work, Gay, Escorts, Prostitutes, Kitty Stryker, Gay Voices News

It's Friday, and you know what the means -- a new Poll Position and another chance to sound off on a controversial topic facing the LGBT community. ...

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Some People Enjoy Being Prostitutes... Get Over It

Kitty Stryker | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Sex Work, Sex Workers, Feminism Sex Work, Feminists Sex Workers, Feminists Sex Work, Prostitutions, Feminism Prostitution, Feminists Prostitution, Prostitutes, Feminism Prostitutes, Feminism Sex Workers, Gay Voices News

I am sick and tired of having to explain that, yeah, I do all that and I support women's rights. Yeah, I do feel empowered. I put on my lipstick not as an expression of femininity but as a queer femme. Don't take that agency away from me.

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Working URLs: Sex Workers And The Wild Wild Web

Kitty Stryker | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Sex Work Online, Sex Life, Sex Work, Sex Workers Online, Sex Workers, Women News

As a sex worker myself, having worked both in real-life situations and online pornography, I have found the web to be incredibly conducive to setting up a business that I control.

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In Their Own Words: 4 Artists Talk About Their Natural-Born Hooker

Tomas Mournian | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Vulture Peak, Sex Work, Working Girls, Shakedown Leilah Weinraub, Vulture Peak John Burdett, Lee Houck Yield, Gary Indiana, Lee Houck, Hookers, Lizzie Borden, John Burdett, John Burdett Vulture Peak, Lizzie Borden Working Girls, Yield Lee Houck, Natural-Born Hooker, Working Girls Lizzie Borden, Rent Boy Gary Indiana, Gary Indiana Rent Boy, Gay Voices News

Gary Indiana, Lizzie Borden, John Burdett, and Lee Houck -- I chose the four aforementioned artists and asked them to talk about why (or why not) a "natural-born hooker" was the central character in their films and novels.

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WATCH: Mustang Ranch Brothel Seeks To Become 'Ritz-Carlton Of Whorehouses'

HuffingtonPost.com | David Moye | Posted 01.20.2012

Read More: Spa Prostitution Arrest, Dennis Hof, Mustang Ranch Nevada, Mustang Ranch, Legal Brothels, Mustang Ranch Las Vegas, Brothels, Sex Work, Aol Weird News, Weird Nevada, Porn, Brothel, Legal Prostitution, Bum Hess, Lance Gilman, Susan Austin, Video, Mustang Ranch Brothel, Luxury Brothel, Legalized Prostitution, Moonlite Bunny Ranch, Amber Peach, Cathouse, Brothals, Mustang Brothel, Weird News News

If you build it, they will come. We're not talking about a baseball diamond in the middle of an Iowa cornfield, we're talking about a legal brothel...

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Former Teacher Poses Nude For 'Penthouse'

Posted 12.22.2011

Read More: Public Schools, Prostitution, New York Public Schools, Melissa Petro, Sex Workers, Penthouse Magazine, Craigslist, Melissa Petro Sex, Penthouse, Sex Work, Teachers, Melissa Petro Penthouse, Craiglist Sex Workers, Education News

After being forced to leave her teaching job due to her former life as a sex worker, Melissa Petro has embraced the media's portrayal of her in a spre...

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The Scholar and the Stripper

Kalia N. Baker | Posted 12.07.2011

Read More: Black Women, The Help, Sex Workers, Black Strippers, Domestic Workers, Sex Work, Strippers, Black Women Sex Work, Stripper, Black Voices News

Looking around the long cherry wood rectangular tables, I waited anxiously to raise my hand. This particular day in our "Women in Literature" course l...

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Myths About Human Trafficking

Ronald Weitzer | Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: Sex Trafficking, Sex Work, State Department, Human Trafficking, World News

There are many popular myths about trafficking -- frequently voiced in the media and by government officials -- that have distorted proper understanding of the problem and, more importantly, hampered efforts to combat it.

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Is Sex Work Becoming 'No Big Deal'?

Dr. Yvonne K. Fulbright | Posted 09.26.2011

Read More: Erotic Services, Sex Workers, Paying for College, Online Erotic Services, High End Escort, Prostitues, Sex Work, Sex Worker Stories, Escort Services, Prostition, Prostitute, Women News

Think "sex worker," and "affluent," "educated," and having a "strong family background" and "access to resources" are not the descriptors that come to mind.

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Sex Workers Turn To Facebook To Recruit Customers

The Huffington Post | Catharine Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Prostitution Facebook, Prostitution, New York Sex Work, Sex Work Facebook, Sex Industry, Sudhir Venkatesh, Sex Trade, Sex Work, Facebook, Prostitute, Technology News

Wired recently published the results of a multi-year study, that examined the increasingly prominent role of social networking and mobile technologies...

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A New Approach to Global HIV/AIDS Education

Dr. Piya Sorcar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: India, Teachaids, Awareness Campaigns, Drug Use, World AIDS Day, Nonprofit, Aids, Hiv, Botswana, Sex Work, Sex Education, Stanford Unversity, Premarital Sex, HIV Cure, Home News

Given how widespread HIV/AIDS awareness campaigns are, you'll be surprised to learn how little knowledge many people actually have about the diseases. It is not at all easy to teach people about them either.

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New York Teacher Punished for Sex Work Past

Monica Shores | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Melissa Petro, Teachers, Sex Work, Sex Workers, Eliot Spitzer, New York, Craigslist, Vitt, New York News

There's tremendous disingenuousness at work in the campaign against elementary school teacher Melissa Petro, who's been suspended by Mayor Bloomberg himself after her sex working past gained national attention. What exactly does Petro's removal teach children?

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Anita Alvarez Tells Congress About Child Prostitution In Chicago

Chicago Tribune | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chicago Human Trafficking, Child Prostitution, Prostitution, Sex Work, Anita Alvarez, Sex Workers, Human Trafficking, Chicago News

WASHINGTON--Some young Chicagoans are practicing "survival sex" and selling their bodies for food, clothing or a safe place to sleep, according to Coo...

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Cambodia: Collaboration is Needed

Eve Blossom | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Unemployment, Economic Crisis, Collaboration, Southeast Asia, Cambodia, Jobs, Sustainability, Business, Human Trafficking, Women's Rights, Garment Industry, Sex Workers, Garment Workers, Sex Work, International Labor Organization, World News

Many see the results of human trafficking and want to get involved; but more importantly, the focus should be on empowering the mechanisms to prevent it.

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More Women, Hit By Recession, Turn To Sex Work

Salon Life | Tracy Clark | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Relationships, Money, Sex, Women's Health, Women Recession, Men's Health, Prostitution Recession, Sex Work, Sex Work Recession, Healthy Living News

"Boob play," "pics of kitty," "topless housecleaning" and "hypno role play." The list, scribbled in a lined yellow notebook, is followed by a double-u...

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Women Helping Women: Former Prostitute Helps Others Quit The Game

washingtonpost.com | Keith L. Alexander | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Prostitution, Angels Project Power, Sex Work, The Giving Life, Nakita Harrison, Healthy Living News

Late one Friday afternoon, a car pulled up to Jackie McReynolds on a busy city street. Three men forced her inside and drove her to an alley, where th...

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Best Sex Writing 2009 Interview: Susannah Breslin on Eliot Spitzer and prostitution

Rachel Kramer Bussel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Letters From Johns, Prostitution, Sex Workers, Sex, Susannah Breslin, Letters From Working Girls, Sex Work, Cleis Press, Best Sex Writing 2009, Eliot Spitzer Sex Scandal, Newsweek, Eliot Spitzer, Rachel Kramer Bussel, Style News

Breslin discusses why men hire sex workers, the media reaction to the Spitzer scandal, and why the personal stories of sex workers and their customers are important.

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