Sex Workers’ Friends and Family Could Be Criminalised, Campaigners Warn
Maya Oppenheim
‘Disastrous.’
Tag: sex work
Protect or Punish? The Stakes of Sex Worker Activism
Eleanor Penny Meets Laura Watson
Should sex work be legalised? Or, instead, decriminalised? For the women involved, the difference is huge.
Boomtown Festival Attendee ‘Slammed Against Wall’ by Security for Pro Sex-Worker Graffiti
Moya Lothian-McLean
They were left without access to food.
Do My Violent Kinks Make Me Less of a Feminist?
Sophie K Rosa
Submission is not capitulation.
Sex Workers Are Being Detained at the US Border
Sophie K Rosa
‘No one knows why some people are stopped and others aren’t.’
Local Politicians Are Scapegoating Sex Workers to Score Points With Voters
Layla Caradonna
Strip clubs are becoming pawns.
‘I’ll Have to Leave Edinburgh’: Sex Workers’ Fears After the City Bans Strip Clubs
Polly Smythe
‘The council wasn't going to listen.’
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?
Sex Work Sucks. So Does Sex. So Does Work.
Laura
A blowjob’s a real job and real jobs suck.
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.
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.
Sex Worker Rights Are Disability Rights
Sophie K Rosa
There's a reason so many sex workers are disabled: the industry is far more accessible than most others.
Sex Work Is Not a Bullshit Job
Marin Scarlett
The Nordic model has failed sex workers, but a politics of compassion could improve their conditions.
OnlyFans’ Ban – and Its Suspension – Shows That Banks Have a Chokehold on Sex Work
Marin Scarlett
It isn’t just the law that sex workers have to worry about.
Scrapping Britain’s First Red Light District Will Be a Disaster for Sex Workers
Lydia Caradonna and Kate Hardy
Pushing workers into the shadows means putting them in danger.
The Pandemic Has Given Sex Workers a Grim Taste of Criminalisation
Vee H
During lockdown street-based sex workers were shouted at, spat at and reported to the police for seeing clients.
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?
Labour Has a Problem With Sex Work
Sophie K Rosa
From shutting down strip clubs to smuggling an anti-sex work amendment into the police bill, Labour MPs have it in for sex workers.