Novara FM: Protect or Punish? The Stakes of Sex Worker Activism
Should sex work be legalised? Or, instead, decriminalised? For the women involved, the difference is huge.
Tag: sex work
Report: Boomtown Festival Attendee ‘Slammed Against Wall’ by Security for Pro Sex-Worker Graffiti
Moya Lothian-McLean
An artist was accused of soliciting for sex because of the graffiti at the festival, whose theme was ‘Revolution of the Imagination’
Red Flags: Do My Violent Kinks Make Me Less of a Feminist?
Sophie K Rosa
In this month’s instalment of Red Flags, Sophie K Rosa doesn’t sugar-coat her advice to a reader unsettled by her desire to submit to her boyfriend.
Report: Sex Workers Are Being Detained at the US Border
Sophie K Rosa
Vague and discriminatory laws can bar sex workers from entering the US, but they’re inconsistently applied. Sophie K Rosa reports.
Opinion: Local Politicians Are Scapegoating Sex Workers to Score Points With Voters
Layla Caradonna
Anti-strip club campaigns like Bristol mayor Marvin Rees’ are cynical vote-winning ploys.
Report: ‘I’ll Have to Leave Edinburgh’: Sex Workers’ Fears After the City Bans Strip Clubs
Polly Smythe
Edinburgh city council has imposed a ‘nil-cap’ policy on strip clubs, effectively banning them in the city. Polly Smythe spoke to sex workers about the impact the ban will have on their lives.
Explainers: How Racism Affects Our Sex Lives
Does love transcend everything? What does it mean to fall in love in an unequal world? Dalia Gebrial looks at how race shapes our experiences of sex and desire, and asks: what would it take to create better conditions for loving one another?
Interview: Sex Work Sucks. So Does Sex. So Does Work.
Laura
When Laura started sex work, she expected a whole new experience. In fact, it was a lot like her old work: drudgerous and dull. As told to Rivkah Brown.
Novara FM: Sex Sells
The left often defends sex workers, but how often do we defend sex work? Women from the Queer Whore Collective speak to Rivkah Brown.
Downstream: Influencers, Exploitation and Capitalism. Ash Sarkar Meets Symeon Brown
How far would you go to get famous and escape poverty? Ash Sarkar is joined by Symeon Brown to discuss how the democratic promise of the internet has reinvented the pyramid scheme. From cryptocurrencies to botched Brazilian butt lifts, they look at how the new clout economy has created a digital lumpenproletariat.
Opinion: Sex Worker Rights Are Disability Rights
Sophie K Rosa
Tired debates about disability and sex work too often focus on the morality of a disabled man buying sex. Why aren’t we talking about disabled sex workers? Sophie K Rosa reports.
Opinion: Sex Work Is Not a Bullshit Job
Marin Scarlett
When so many jobs exist solely to rationalise capitalism – as the late David Graeber’s thesis argues – sex workers respond to a real demand. Simply trying to end that demand is flawed, writes Marin Scarlett in our series exploring the life and ideas of Graeber on the first anniversary of his death.
Report: OnlyFans’ Ban – and Its Suspension – Shows That Banks Have a Chokehold on Sex Work
Marin Scarlett
A muddled legal landscape provides the perfect cover for financial institutions to discriminate with impunity, writes Marin Scarlett.
Opinion: Scrapping Britain’s First Red Light District Will Be a Disaster for Sex Workers
Lydia Caradonna and Kate Hardy
Leeds city council plans to close the ‘managed zone’ in Holbeck, where sex work has been permitted since 2014. It’s a decision that puts the pearl-clutching of gentrifiers before the safety of workers, write Lydia Caradonna and Kate Hardy.
Opinion: The Pandemic Has Given Sex Workers a Grim Taste of Criminalisation
Vee H
Sex workers are tired of having to fight criminalisation, writes Vee H. But lockdown has given them frightening insight into what tougher laws could entail: more risk, more stigma and ruined earning capacity.
Novara Live: Tory Sleaze Row Gathers Pace
Keir Starmer has called on the PM to launch a full inquiry into Greensill and said "sleaze is now at heart of this Tory government". Will the allegations stick?
Analysis: Labour Has a Problem With Sex Work
Sophie K Rosa
From supporting a strip club ban in Bristol to attempting to use the sinister new police bill as a vehicle to smuggle through an amendment that would further criminalise sex work, a certain set of Labour MPs seem fixated on a crackdown that women in the industry say would put them in danger.
Report: Sex Workers Mobilise Against ‘Dangerous’ Bill Set to Criminalise Clients
Sophie K Rosa
Sex workers are mobilising against a controversial Labour bill, which proposes the UK adopts the 'Nordic Model' and criminalises buying sex. Such a move, they argue, would put their lives at greater risk. Sophie K Rosa reports.