By Marisa Kohan, Publico, Madrid June 16, 2022 (https://www.publico.es/mujer/alika-kinan-victima-trata-hombres-conciencia-no-pagar-violar.html) Poverty, lack of resources, the neglect of the State and the complicity of society as a…
Next to my writing desk sits a box where I collect bad memories. Every time I have flashbacks, or “intrusive thoughts,” I write them down…
“If [when I was a prostitute] I had seen the men being punished, that would have given me hope. That would have given me the…
The shock of reading that state legislators are calling for the legalization of prostitution in our state still leaves me shaking. Sens. Julia Salazar and…
Madison Graham on what it was like being controlled by Dennis Hof, a Nevada legal pimp. I was Dennis Hof’s personal assistant and publicist for 3…
Huschke Mau goes on a Frankfurt brothel tour led by an advocate for legal prostitution and confronts the web of disinformation that is being promoted…
Rae Story, excerpt from Working in a New Zealand brothel was anything but ‘a job like any other’, published on Feminist Current The boss liked…
May 25, 2017 Taina Bien-Aime interviews Nomonde Mihlali (“Mickey”) Meji in Cape Town You have an extensive presence on the Internet as a “sex work” advocate…
In no form of gender-based violence other than prostitution do we weigh the veracity of the victimization of a person on whether or not there…
Letter to sex buyers from a Danish survivor of prostitution
Sex work is a relentless game of pandering to male narcissism. As a sex worker, it is literally your job to make a man feel special, superior, and satisfied as if he is the only being on the planet. This aspect of the job really leaves no room for the self. There is no space to explore or identify or evolve any aspect of your own being, because there is no room for you in the equation.
My modern version of prostitution was fun, easy and body-positive—until it wasn’t.
‘Would you like to stay for another dance?” I ask sweetly. He looks me up and down in grim appraisal, makes a miserable face and…
https://www.bustle.com/articles/91812-i-had-sex-with-a-sugar-daddy-to-help-pay-my-tuition-and-heres-why-i Stories about women seeking richer, older men to pay their university tuition in exchange for sex are becoming more and more common. From the…
Here in New Zealand, in the legal brothels, we have the same ‘happy hookers’ who claim being ’empowered’ ‘sex workers’ enacting ‘free choice’ and ‘agency’…
If you like sex, this is not a letter to you. If you like women, this is not a letter to you. If you’ve somehow…
My mom grew up in the middle of the Prairies in the middle of The Great Depression. She was a child of want, on every…
The first time I was arrested because of prostitution, on Benburb Street in 1991, I had a conversation with the arresting officer that I have…