Survivors say to United Nations, “Prostitution is not sex and it is not work.”
“We, survivors of the business of sexual exploitation, found the document by Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHRCR) to be contrary to everything we know about the sex industry…”
An artificial language designed to present men and women as a homogenous group is particularly harmful to prostitution survivors
This language does not allow a discourse on the differences between the sexes in the context of the sex industry. We freely discuss that most…
Alika Kinan, Victim of Trafficking: “Men have to be aware that you cannot pay to rape”
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…
The Punter: Why Men Visit Prostitutes and What the Men Think About the Prostitute
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…
From Lynne Walsh, (2021) “The sex trade teaches you that you’re not even human.” Morningstar
“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…
Legalize prostitution? Hell no
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…
What It Was Like Being Controlled By Dennis Hof, a Nevada Legal Pimp
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…
A survivor goes on a brothel tour in Frankfurt’s red light district: Truth? or propaganda & lies about prostitution?
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…
Six survivors speak out about harms of New Zealand’s legal sex industry
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…
Journey From Sex Work Advocate to Survivor Leader
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…
It Doesn’t Take a Third Party
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
Letter to sex buyers from a Danish survivor of prostitution
IT HAPPENED TO ME: I Was an Escort for Eight Years, Believing It Would Empower Me, and It Didn’t
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.
I THOUGHT SEX WORK WOULD BE EMPOWERING AND FEMINIST. I WAS DEAD WRONG.
My modern version of prostitution was fun, easy and body-positive—until it wasn’t.
Naked truths
‘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…
I Had Sex With A Sugar Daddy to Help Pay My Tuition, And Here’s Why I Wouldn’t Do it Again
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…