#sexwork — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #sexwork, aggregated by home.social.
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Launch: «The Lancet Public Health Series on Advancing Health Equity for Sex Workers» webinar.
🗓 Tuesday, September 15th
💻 Online (Zoom) 🕐 13:00 UTC
✍️ Inscription: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/N717_mqZSXe9N5GkLQm_uw#/registration-
> The new Lancet Public Health Series on Advancing Health Equity for Sex Workers is a four-paper Series that represents the culmination of a long-term collaborative effort between academics, sex workers, and the Global Network of Sex Work Projects.
> We would like to invite you to the Series launch webinar on Tuesday 15th September in recognition of Sex Worker Pride Day.— NSWP 🗺️
❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥💖
#SexWork #NSWP #Webinar #SWEvents #TheLancet #Launch #PublicHealth #2026W38 #SWPD #SexWorkerPrideDay
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«Let Us Survive: An oral history of sex worker movements before and after FOSTA-SESTA»
Podcast by Hacking//Hustling collective.https://hackinghustling.org/research-2/let-us-survive-oral-history-podcast/
(Page includes links to episodes and transcripts.)
> Let Us Survive, an oral history project by sex workers for everyone, covers a decade of American sex worker justice movements, roughly 2013 to 2023. It also gazes towards the future: of the industry, and of our labor organizing.
> This podcast does something that US Congress didn’t do: we listen to sex worker voices. Voices along the Choice-Circumstance-Coercion spectrum. We explore how sex workers use technology to keep ourselves safe, to build community and culture, to not only survive but thrive. We listen to our fellow sex workers and survivors as we talk about our movements, how we’ve responded to FOSTA-SESTA and other policies. How we feel about federal raids on internet platforms like RentBoy and Backpage. How we feel about the Communications Decency Act and freedom of speech. What we believe reproductive justice activists and others can learn from sex worker organizing. Why we’re fighting for the decriminalization of sex work, and how that will only be the beginning of the changes we need to see.
#SexWork #Podcast #HackingHustling #USA #SWPodcasts #OralHistory #History #ContemporaryHistory
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«Let Us Survive: An oral history of sex worker movements before and after FOSTA-SESTA»
Podcast by Hacking//Hustling collective.https://hackinghustling.org/research-2/let-us-survive-oral-history-podcast/
(Page includes links to episodes and transcripts.)
> Let Us Survive, an oral history project by sex workers for everyone, covers a decade of American sex worker justice movements, roughly 2013 to 2023. It also gazes towards the future: of the industry, and of our labor organizing.
> This podcast does something that US Congress didn’t do: we listen to sex worker voices. Voices along the Choice-Circumstance-Coercion spectrum. We explore how sex workers use technology to keep ourselves safe, to build community and culture, to not only survive but thrive. We listen to our fellow sex workers and survivors as we talk about our movements, how we’ve responded to FOSTA-SESTA and other policies. How we feel about federal raids on internet platforms like RentBoy and Backpage. How we feel about the Communications Decency Act and freedom of speech. What we believe reproductive justice activists and others can learn from sex worker organizing. Why we’re fighting for the decriminalization of sex work, and how that will only be the beginning of the changes we need to see.
#SexWork #Podcast #HackingHustling #USA #SWPodcasts #OralHistory #History #ContemporaryHistory
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«Let Us Survive: An oral history of sex worker movements before and after FOSTA-SESTA»
Podcast by Hacking//Hustling collective.https://hackinghustling.org/research-2/let-us-survive-oral-history-podcast/
(Page includes links to episodes and transcripts.)
> Let Us Survive, an oral history project by sex workers for everyone, covers a decade of American sex worker justice movements, roughly 2013 to 2023. It also gazes towards the future: of the industry, and of our labor organizing.
> This podcast does something that US Congress didn’t do: we listen to sex worker voices. Voices along the Choice-Circumstance-Coercion spectrum. We explore how sex workers use technology to keep ourselves safe, to build community and culture, to not only survive but thrive. We listen to our fellow sex workers and survivors as we talk about our movements, how we’ve responded to FOSTA-SESTA and other policies. How we feel about federal raids on internet platforms like RentBoy and Backpage. How we feel about the Communications Decency Act and freedom of speech. What we believe reproductive justice activists and others can learn from sex worker organizing. Why we’re fighting for the decriminalization of sex work, and how that will only be the beginning of the changes we need to see.
#SexWork #Podcast #HackingHustling #USA #SWPodcasts #OralHistory #History #ContemporaryHistory
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«Let Us Survive: An oral history of sex worker movements before and after FOSTA-SESTA»
Podcast by Hacking//Hustling collective.https://hackinghustling.org/research-2/let-us-survive-oral-history-podcast/
(Page includes links to episodes and transcripts.)
> Let Us Survive, an oral history project by sex workers for everyone, covers a decade of American sex worker justice movements, roughly 2013 to 2023. It also gazes towards the future: of the industry, and of our labor organizing.
> This podcast does something that US Congress didn’t do: we listen to sex worker voices. Voices along the Choice-Circumstance-Coercion spectrum. We explore how sex workers use technology to keep ourselves safe, to build community and culture, to not only survive but thrive. We listen to our fellow sex workers and survivors as we talk about our movements, how we’ve responded to FOSTA-SESTA and other policies. How we feel about federal raids on internet platforms like RentBoy and Backpage. How we feel about the Communications Decency Act and freedom of speech. What we believe reproductive justice activists and others can learn from sex worker organizing. Why we’re fighting for the decriminalization of sex work, and how that will only be the beginning of the changes we need to see.
#SexWork #Podcast #HackingHustling #USA #SWPodcasts #OralHistory #History #ContemporaryHistory
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«Let Us Survive: An oral history of sex worker movements before and after FOSTA-SESTA»
Podcast by Hacking//Hustling collective.https://hackinghustling.org/research-2/let-us-survive-oral-history-podcast/
(Page includes links to episodes and transcripts.)
> Let Us Survive, an oral history project by sex workers for everyone, covers a decade of American sex worker justice movements, roughly 2013 to 2023. It also gazes towards the future: of the industry, and of our labor organizing.
> This podcast does something that US Congress didn’t do: we listen to sex worker voices. Voices along the Choice-Circumstance-Coercion spectrum. We explore how sex workers use technology to keep ourselves safe, to build community and culture, to not only survive but thrive. We listen to our fellow sex workers and survivors as we talk about our movements, how we’ve responded to FOSTA-SESTA and other policies. How we feel about federal raids on internet platforms like RentBoy and Backpage. How we feel about the Communications Decency Act and freedom of speech. What we believe reproductive justice activists and others can learn from sex worker organizing. Why we’re fighting for the decriminalization of sex work, and how that will only be the beginning of the changes we need to see.
#SexWork #Podcast #HackingHustling #USA #SWPodcasts #OralHistory #History #ContemporaryHistory
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Blue Film review – polarising sex worker drama is well-acted and deeply disturbing
By Cath ClarkeA camboy meets up with a convicted paedophile who turns out to be his old English teacher in Elliot Tuttle’s uncomfortable drama
#Film #Dramafilms #Sexwork #Culture #Society #TheGuardian #CathClarke
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Blue Film review – polarising sex worker drama is well-acted and deeply disturbing
By Cath ClarkeA camboy meets up with a convicted paedophile who turns out to be his old English teacher in Elliot Tuttle’s uncomfortable drama
#Film #Dramafilms #Sexwork #Culture #Society #TheGuardian #CathClarke
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Blue Film review – polarising sex worker drama is well-acted and deeply disturbing
By Cath ClarkeA camboy meets up with a convicted paedophile who turns out to be his old English teacher in Elliot Tuttle’s uncomfortable drama
#Film #Dramafilms #Sexwork #Culture #Society #TheGuardian #CathClarke
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Blue Film review – polarising sex worker drama is well-acted and deeply disturbing
By Cath ClarkeA camboy meets up with a convicted paedophile who turns out to be his old English teacher in Elliot Tuttle’s uncomfortable drama
#Film #Dramafilms #Sexwork #Culture #Society #TheGuardian #CathClarke
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As a sex worker, when I did in-person work, it wasn't just intercourse. I did a lot of reassuring of (cis) men about their size, listened to a lot of people's relationship problems, and sometimes people genuinely just wanted to cuddle, they were so desperate for physical(non-sexual)contact. Whether it's sexual in nature or not, most people are looking for connection-to be seen, to be heard, to be understood-even if it's only for a moment.
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As a sex worker, when I did in-person work, it wasn't just intercourse. I did a lot of reassuring of (cis) men about their size, listened to a lot of people's relationship problems, and sometimes people genuinely just wanted to cuddle, they were so desperate for physical(non-sexual)contact. Whether it's sexual in nature or not, most people are looking for connection-to be seen, to be heard, to be understood-even if it's only for a moment.
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As a sex worker, when I did in-person work, it wasn't just intercourse. I did a lot of reassuring of (cis) men about their size, listened to a lot of people's relationship problems, and sometimes people genuinely just wanted to cuddle, they were so desperate for physical(non-sexual)contact. Whether it's sexual in nature or not, most people are looking for connection-to be seen, to be heard, to be understood-even if it's only for a moment.
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As a sex worker, when I did in-person work, it wasn't just intercourse. I did a lot of reassuring of (cis) men about their size, listened to a lot of people's relationship problems, and sometimes people genuinely just wanted to cuddle, they were so desperate for physical(non-sexual)contact. Whether it's sexual in nature or not, most people are looking for connection-to be seen, to be heard, to be understood-even if it's only for a moment.
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As a sex worker, when I did in-person work, it wasn't just intercourse. I did a lot of reassuring of (cis) men about their size, listened to a lot of people's relationship problems, and sometimes people genuinely just wanted to cuddle, they were so desperate for physical(non-sexual)contact. Whether it's sexual in nature or not, most people are looking for connection-to be seen, to be heard, to be understood-even if it's only for a moment.
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«De-escalation training for outdoor live events»
🗓 Monday, September 14th
💻 Online 🕡 18:30–20:00 UTC
🎯 For sex workers! 👠
https://events.humanitix.com/de-escalation-training-for-outdoor-live-events> Come learn how to prepare for, observe and interact with outdoor celebratory crowds and unintended/unwelcome passersby. Facilitators will help you refine current skills you have to apply to live events.
> This Spokes Hub class is free and open to people with lived experience in the sex trades.
— New Moon Network 🇺🇸
#SexWork #SpokesHub #WoodhullFreedomFoundation #NewMoonNetwork #Online #Workshop #2026W38
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«De-escalation training for outdoor live events»
🗓 Monday, September 14th
💻 Online 🕡 18:30–20:00 UTC
🎯 For sex workers! 👠
https://events.humanitix.com/de-escalation-training-for-outdoor-live-events> Come learn how to prepare for, observe and interact with outdoor celebratory crowds and unintended/unwelcome passersby. Facilitators will help you refine current skills you have to apply to live events.
> This Spokes Hub class is free and open to people with lived experience in the sex trades.
— New Moon Network 🇺🇸
#SexWork #SpokesHub #WoodhullFreedomFoundation #NewMoonNetwork #Online #Workshop #2026W38
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CW: :tardis: English Introduction ( :boost_requested: Please Boost) cw: eye contact
Hi, I'm Melo, a thirty-something years old white queer disabled trans girl, this account will be dedicated to sex work
i'm really into overalls, fishnet, soft lightings and my own butt, so you'll see a lot of those in my sets 😏
I currently live in south of France with one of the best humans on earth and two of the best cats.
I do electronics and programming as a hobby, and also some drawing and painting which i'm really bad at but appreciate doing.
i'm your average geek girl that loves video and board games, scifi TV-shows and electronics.
:meow_game_controller:
celeste :mario_8bit:, hades :neofox_devil:, mario kart :mariokart_peach:, zelda :meow_hero_glow:, pokemon :charmander_yay:..
:meow_popcorn:
drWho :tardis:, Twilight zone :blobcat_oh_no:, The Owl House :blobhaj_witch:..
:ablobcat_dj:
techno, punk, rap, pop..
here we are against every cage, supremacy, exploitation !
we want (with many other things) the abolition of gender, capitalism, racism, jail, ableism, speciesism, sanism...
i'll try to always cw correctly my content, tell me if i fail, i also always do alt text, feel free to criticize it.
#introductions #introduction #sexWork #sexWorker #presentation #transwoman #trans #transNsfw #nsfw #tGirl -
«Support your local sex workers»
SXHX's September update.https://sxhxcollective.org/2026/09/03/support-your-local-sex-workers/
Urgent Mutual Aid calls:
> We’re in need of urgent funds to support THREE workers who are currently struggling to support themselves after assault, unintended pregnancy + loss of work, and emergency relocation respectively. If you have $5 -$20, or more, to spare please Venmo us @SxHxCollective or Cashapp us $SxHxCollective (and put a 🌹in the memo line). Everything helps.
> We also hope you’d consider donating to support a Cleveland sex worker facing thousands in legal fees after a recent arrest, her CashApp is: $daizshmoneyAdditionally: Campaign demanding pardon for Keshia Golden and fundraiser.
https://www.change.org/p/pardon-keshia-golden
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-keshia-and-her-three-year-old-daughter -
A library as a show piece?: Art patrons, a Florentine cortigiana onestà, and an in-house library study in “Arte”
Veronica’s study/library shown in the fifth chapter of the Arte mangaBack in November 2024, I wrote about the anime adaptation of Arte, which is set in Renaissance-era Italy, noting the library scenes in four episodes, noting how in the episode “Courtesan”, the protagonist, Arte, goes with her master, Leonardo, to the house of Veronica, a courtesan, and they visit her study. While there, she marvels at how impressive the library is, with Veronica saying she needs to entertain her gentleman callers with education, and she offers to let Arte borrow books from her collection, with the latter saying that while standing in her library she can’t view her with anything but respect, saying her respect is for how hard she works, not her profession. It is in this same place that Veronica counsels Arte on her love for her master, Leo, and where Arte realizes that while she will listen to Veronica, she can’t forgive how she treats her clients, as she learns what it truly means to be a prostitute.
In that same post, I also noted the brief library scene in the next episode (the fifth in the series), entitled “Inseparable Bond”, in which Arte goes to the library/study to get Veronica’s advice on speaking to a difficult client, and in the beginning of the eighth episode, entitled “A New Chapter”. In that episode, Arte and Veronica again talk in her study/library, with Veronica saying she couldn’t imagine Florence without Arte, and bidding her farewell as she prepares for her Venice trip. It is implied then that Darcia talks to Veronica afterward about reading (Arte teaches her to read), but not directly shown. In the final episode of the anime adaptation, entitled “Apprentice”, Leo visits Veronica in her study/library, and they talk about the art commission she is offering him, and she is willing to pay him more to make a good artwork (and to buy expensive materials), and she jokes that Arte “she prefers Venice over Florence,” something which likely gets to him, without a doubt. The manga is a bit different.
Veronica is introduced in the fourth chapter, but Arte and Leo do not meet her until the fifth chapter, when she is, again, called a cortigiana. At the time, cortigiana, meaning courtesan, some called them palace ladies, or donna di palazzo. Veronica would undoubtedly be a cortigiana onestà, which one scholar called “the high-‐class figure of female influence who achieved an unparalleled level of emancipation in the profoundly patriarchal world of Renaissance Italy.” [1] In the fifth chapter, she is described as renting a house with the money she makes as a courtsean (what we would now call a sex worker) and like in the episode “Courtesan” I mentioned earlier, Arte is impressed, and after Veronica declares she has read every book there, Arte is even more in awe. And she even gets to borrow books from the study, with Arte saying she respects Veronica’s hard work.
It is thanks to that fascination she gets her first commission, just as she does in the anime. She admires how intellectual Veronica is and is undoubtedly appreciative when she tells her that the feelings she has for Leo are romantic. Again, this generally follows the anime, including when she sees the terrible conditions that lower-class courtesans work within, and what love can do to someone, a narrative which continues into chapter six. Veronica is the one that tells her she doesn’t “have time” for love. The library itself continues to be shown as somewhere where Veronica shines, above anything else, giving her an allure of someone learned. All the while she treats her clients in a way that Arte (and most) find disreputable. This continues in chapter seven, when she dreads having to give Veronica the painting. An interesting scene, not in the anime, is when Leo comes to meet with Veronica, who says she will pay for the portrait in time, not “like one of those cheap prostitutes.”
What Arte says in the fifth chapter reflects how some people think of librarians. This view of Veronica changes as she gets to know her betterThe scene goes so far that Leo says that Arte keeps “acting strange,” then she won’t be working at his workshop anymore, leading Veronica to advocate for Arte, saying it would be cruel to fire her, and saying she has taken a liking to Arte. This creates an interesting comparison between Arte, an apprentice barely earning anything, to Veronica, which he finds curious. Later on, Arte realizes she has to set things right, and realizes that Veronica hides “her struggles below her smiles.” She ends up giving her the painting, saying that while she can’t condone how Veronica treats her clients, she is doing it to have an independent life, and works hard in many ways. It is also revealed she is providing for the rest of her family as well!
Even so, Veronica acknowledges the job is “sinful” but she will continue to keep her smile until she dies. Even after all of this, she still wants to advise Arte on anything troubling her, as a friend, and Arte accepts this, as she knows it is important to have someone like her as a friend. In an interesting article I found, one scholar wrote that “during the Italian Renaissance, mythology and art contributed to the increasing popularity of the cortigiana, or courtesan.” That actually does fit with the series, with Veronica as an art patron! The latter is mentioned by Arte to Angelo in the next chapter. In the process of that discussion and others, she breaks through Angelo’s paternalistic attitude that girls need to be protected by men.
Some chapters later, Arte meets Veronica again in the library (at the end of chapter 10), [2] which continues in the next chapter, when she helps Arte negotiate with Ubertino. She reveals that he worked in the wool trade. What she tells Arte allows her to hold her own, teaching her everything from the beginning step by step, including proper posture, speech, and listening skills. She uses to this to appeal to him, especially using her lace art drawings, to pull him in. Veronica’s role in what some, historically, would call an “honored courtesan,” continues to be a major plot point in the story. In fact, Arte visits Veronica again in the beginning of the sixteenth chapter, when she gets a painting from Arte which she wants to keep herself, rather than giving it as a gift to someone. All the while, Veronica says she is expecting things from her, and she feels embarrassed to talk to her, like she is doing something “forbidden.”
It is her running into a Venetian noble afterward and his talking to Veronica, again in the study/library, is what leads Arte to her job in Venice. This is almost exactly what is portrayed in the anime. The same can be said of the eighteenth chapter, when Arte goes to Veronica again, this time asking about a dispute involving the daughter of Leo’s art master (Lusanna), in which she says that disputes over money involving widows is common. She is the one which gives the idea to Arte to approach a person with status and power: the Venetian noble (Mr. Yuri Falier) who wants her to travel to Venice to tutor his cousin, for a six-month period. Even Veronica is surprised that Arte is going so suddenly to Venice in the next chapter, saying it will be a “little lonely” in Florence without her. Again, it is implied that Dacia will go visit Veronica to get books to continue her study of reading and writing.
Arte confronts Veronica in the seventh chapter and states her principles.Unlike in the anime, at the end of the nineteenth chapter, Dacia does visit Veronica, and is very nervous, saying she is only there because she is Arte’s friend. Veronica convinces her to sit and chat down for a bit, but no more is shown, because the story moves onto the next chapter. Nor does it appear in any other chapter, sadly. In fact, there aren’t any library scenes going forward as the story moves to the Venetian arc and there aren’t any scenes in Florence!
In writing this post, I am reminded what Italian history scholar Margaret F. Rosenthal wrote back in November 2018 for Renaissance Quarterly, examining how one cortigiana onestà, also known an “intellectual courtsean,” named Veronica Franco, was restricted in her professional activities, or whether socal forces compelled or contained her “cultivation of a literary identity” in Venetian society, and the maneuvers she adopted when she “obtained entrance into an elite literary circle.” [3] Similarly, another webpage I found comes to mind: cortigiana, like Veronica, enjoyed a “glamorous lifestyle augmented by an education that enabled intellectual interactions in a secular rather than a religious domain.” This was even reflected in paintings like the strongly erotic “Portrait of a Woman known as The Courtesan” by Jacopo Palma il Vecchio in about 1520. [4]
Ultimately, whether the library is a showpiece for Veronica or not, it is also a symbol of how she is a thinking person, an intellectual in her own right. The study/library is a place she can be here own, a place she can be dominant, more than anyone else.
© 2024-2026 Burkely Hermann. All rights reserved.
Notes
[1] There’s even a Wikipedia page entitled “List of Italian Renaissance courtesans.”
[2] The aftermath of chapter 10, a feature describes her as “busty.”
[3] This article comes as no surprise considering that she wrote a book in 1992 entitled The Honest Courtesan about Veronica Franco, a courtesan in 16th-century Venice.
[4] Also see “Private Lives and Public Lies: Texts by Courtesans of the Italian Renaissance” by Fiora A. Bassanese.
#Arte #books #courtesans #Florence #history #ItalianWomen #Italy #libraryPatrons #quiet #reading #sexWork #studyRoom #studying #tutoring #Venice -
hey ! it's #sexWorkerSaturday
the rules are simple :
- boost sex workers !
- tip sex workers !
- buy sex workers content !
- subscribe to sex workers pages !
#swerSaturday #sexWork -
:charmander_yay:
ok i'm kinda back (i still will have many things to manage, maybe i'll move to another home soon :blob_fingerscrossed:)
still figuring out who i lost while migrating my account,
If you are a sex worker and i don't follow you back, ping me, in dm if you want, i'm overwhelmed and might miss some of you 💜
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#fascists #sexwork #anarchists
"What I Learned Debating Fascists on a Phone Sex Hotline
Years of talking dirty politics—at two dollars a minute—offered a window into the sexual psychology of the modern right.
(. . .)
Several months in, I created a line for a different special interest: 'Talk Politics With The Anarchist Bimbo.' Unlike sexy chess, the market for this niche found me immediately."
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/debate-me-daddy-confessions-of-a-phone-sex-hotline-operator
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J'ai hâte de pouvoir retrouver une 2e cam 🥺🥵 ça me manque que vous puissiez pas voir ce qu'il se passe sous le bureau en POV quand je joue
#camgirl #hottie #sexwork #fansly #stripchat #suggestive #cosy #sundayfreepic
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FBI no longer treating applicants’ experience with sex workers as automatic bar against hiring
By Associated PressBureau will still dismiss those engaged with sex workers within past 10 years, three or more times overall, or while in public safety capacity
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/29/fbi-apllicants-sex-workers
#FBI #Sexwork #Trumpadministration #USpolitics #USnews #TheGuardian #AssociatedPress
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FBI no longer treating applicants’ experience with sex workers as automatic bar against hiring https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/29/fbi-apllicants-sex-workers #Fbi #SexWork #TrumpAdministration #UsPolitics #UsNews
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CW: Suche (kommerzielle) Kink&Fesselevents
Könnt ihr mir einmal helfen etwas zu finden
Ich suche so etwas ähnliches wie ein Dominastudio, bevorzugt Queer oder Gay
Der entscheidende Punkt wäre daß ich nicht eine persönliche Session suche, sondern ehr ein Event wie eine Gruppenveranstaltung/Party auf der ich als Dienstleistung buchen kann einige Stunden lang gefesselt-eingeschlossen oder angebunden zu werden, oder überhaupt einfach in Latex dabei sein darf
#SexWork #Kink #BDSM #Bondage #BoostsWelcome -
«The Missing Anthology: Stories from Singapore's Sex Workers»
👤 Editors: Vanessa Ho, Raksha Mahtani, Nor
🗓 2025-03-09
🆔 ISBN: 978-981-94-1956-2
📔 Editorial: Faction Press 🛒 https://www.faction.press/shop/p/the-missing-anthology-stories-from-singapores-sex-workers> Sex workers in Singapore — and most places around the world — tend to be dehumanised, glamourised or sensationalised by the public and media alike. Rarely do mainstream narratives centre sex workers’ voices and agency. The Missing Anthology presents fifteen bold new voices from sex workers, whose writings resist society’s simplistic assumptions about sex work. In these works, authors recount their lived experiences, share their struggles and triumphs, and imagine different futures for the sex industry.
> Born from an open call and writing workshops organised by Project X — the only non-profit organisation in Singapore that provides social, emotional, and health services to people in the sex industry — these pieces daringly experiment with form, genre, and perspective. In these pages, you’ll find two “chickens” discussing their dreams while blowing up a condom; pieces on the dynamics of domme-ing and servicing second-hand hearts; essays on the importance of activism and its obstacles; short fiction exploring fantasies of violent liberation; tender letters to loved ones and younger selves that reflect on their journeys and how far they’ve come.
> ‘The Missing Anthology’ re-centres sex workers’ voices from the margins, bringing them into the conversation about an industry often treated as illicit and taboo. By doing so, it aims to address issues of inequality, social and economic mobility, stigmatization, and safety that are fuelled by misconceptions about sex workers and their profession.
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Psssst… yeah, very much recommended. ^~
Nonfiction? Southeast Asia told by those in southeast Asia? Sex work told by sex workers?
Nonfiction talk on sex work in Southeast Asia by actual sex workers in Southeast Asia? Hell yeah~!It's not often at all you find this combination. ;3
#SWBooks #SexWork #ProjectX #Singapore #Anthology #March2025 #Book #Books #Bookstodon
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September 30th is International Pole Dance Day.
And YAS Work is starting a series of articles to highlight its art, history, and community. ❤️🔥
They'll also highlight events made for this day: https://yaswork.org/international-pole-dance-day-2026/
Let's not forget, pole dance as we know it only exists thanks to sex workers. ^~
I'll be sharing links or brief extracts from their articles on a thread (this is post # 0), but dubiously on time… :3
Do check or subscribe yourself if you don't want to miss any!Their chosen tags: #SpicyWorkers #RespectPoleHistory #IntlPoleDay
(Tags as per my usual schemas)
#SexWork #PoleDance #IPDD2026 #YASWork #Memory #September30 #Sep30 #InternationalPoleDanceDay #IPDD -
RE: https://mastodon.social/@thejapantimes/117149781622837997
So, “expert” panel on sex work made of cis white accommodated men whose only knowledge about sex work is from the times they hired a whore..? (And which they'll all deny, so nominally: none whatsoever)
And TALKING WITH SEX WORKERS themselves or their associations (such as SWASH) is not even CONSIDERED..?
Great to know that an “expert panel” is not required to have two working neurons between all its members. 😮💨🤦♀️
For real, they actually have the galls to claim something like…
> Panel members also stressed the importance of providing sex workers with protection and support tailored to their respective circumstances, as needed.
… once more, while not even looking for sex worker input… 🙄 “tailored to their circumstances” the hell it is…
… and yet to STOP MAKING THEM CRIMINALS is judged unacceptable, for what's basically no reason whatsoever:
> However, a majority of members called for maintaining the [anti-prostitution] provisions, noting that scrapping them could send the wrong message
Sure, let's also prohibit giving food or money to the unhoused because not doing so could send the wrong message that vagrancy is tolerated. Or let's forbid giving people mental health support, least somebody assumed lunacy is tolerated. And let's of course sanction sex education, heavens forbid somebody could think that an ectopic pregnancy might require an abortion!
I seriously have a hard time believing these people have though twice (or once) the nonsense they're sprouting. 🤦♀️
What's more, they're pushing at the same time towards actively making their situation worse:
> the panel agreed to increase the upper limit on the fines, according to the draft report.
“protection” and “support” s'yeah. For their own wallets if anything; for sex workers' actual safety, that's not even lip service.
Wish instead of taking their judgements out of their arses, they took their head out first. 😮💨
For real, is it asking so much to simply LISTEN TO SEX WORKERS when discussing laws about sex work..?
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Extra:
> Many members, meanwhile, took a cautious stance about expanding the definition of prostitution to include anal intercourse, arguing that public authorities should be careful about intervening in sexual activity, which is highly personal.
But if it's vaginal it's completely fine for authorities to intervene and ban it, right..?
What a bag of 💩.
And the draft itself is even worse… 😩
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CW: UKpol; extreme police negligence; mentions serial sexual harassment, assault, rape and murder; some linked articles get explicit on those; some ranting of my own afterwards.
«Statement: Justice for the victims of Simon Levy means more than a conviction. It must mean change»
> Sheryl Wilkins was murdered by Simon Levy—a man who had previously attacked women, had been convicted of violence against women, had been investigated in connection with the murder of Carmen Valencia Trujillo, and was nevertheless released on bail. Just four months later, he murdered Ms Wilkins.
> Women in our network who worked in the same area as Ms Wilkins say her death could have been prevented if the police had prioritised sex workers’ safety over the criminalisation and persecution of sex workers. Instead, police operations like Clear, Hold, Build, led to women being harassed, arrested, displaced from familiar areas, subjected to ASBOs and closure orders, and treated as criminals rather than protected from violent men.
> ECP’s Niki Adams said:
> “This case must lead to real change. Sex workers’ safety must be prioritised. Violent men target sex workers because they think they will get away with it because our lives and our safety aren’t a priority. We face saturation policing and no protection. We demand a change in the law so that sex workers, most of whom are mothers, are no longer criminalised for working to make a living. The laws give the police justification for treating us like criminals. One woman was violently raped by Levy and when she reported it, she herself was prosecuted. What will happen to those police officers? Will they be prosecuted for treating her like that? A violent sexual predator and attacker like Simon Levy was freed again and again after attacking women because women’s lives and safety aren’t seen as a priority. The laws have to be changed so that sex workers are no longer criminalised and we can report violence without fear of arrest or fear of deportation for those of us who are migrant women.”
> Criminalisation of sex work pushes women into greater danger, forces us into unfamiliar places, and makes it easier for violent offenders to prey on us. We demand decriminalisation. We demand that sex workers lives are valued. We demand that no more lives are lost because women’s safety is treated as less important than enforcing unjust laws.
— English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP) 🇬🇧
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More of the coverage linked below. Some are explicit, discretion is advised.
«The Guardian: What the Simon Levy case tells us about the women the justice system keeps failing»
https://prostitutescollective.net/the-guardian-what-the-simon-levy-case-tells-us-about-the-women-the-justice-system-keeps-failing/«BBC News: Police failings revealed as sex offender left free to murder and attack women»
https://prostitutescollective.net/bbc-news-police-failings-revealed-as-sex-offender-left-free-to-murder-and-attack-women/«Video: ITV News – The full timeline: How double murderer Simon Levy was caught after years of crimes»
https://prostitutescollective.net/video-itv-news-the-full-timeline-how-double-murderer-simon-levy-was-caught-after-years-of-crimes/«Video BBC News: How one of the most “dangerous and predatory” men was left free to kill»
https://prostitutescollective.net/video-bbc-news-how-one-of-the-most-dangerous-and-predatory-men-was-left-free-to-kill/-
Summary of the situation: sexual predator keeps being bailed out of any charges because police pays no mind to the women denouncing him, keeps upping the harassment, eventually turns to physical assault and rape choosing sex workers as victims under an assumption that no one would care* [he actually admitted to this], then an actual murder (of a sex worker), gets found but is bailed anyway because police is [beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep], then murders another sex worker.
* Which is proven right when police arrests a VICTIM while she tried to go to a hospital after being raped. For real. The rapist? Didn't even get a spank on the wrist for this one.
Y'know, maybe if police were less busy “““cleaning the streets””” and incarcerating sex workers for things like working together or just being there, actual murderers and rapists would have less room to operate… 😮💨
[For the record, this doesn't even require police to develop some minimal competency on their alleged jobs, just to stop making it harder on others. Police simply getting the hell away would overall be a net gain considering its actual effects on cases like this. This very one being an excellent example. :/
“But they eventually imprisoned him for life!” — yeah, after being complicit for years of negligence and the enforcement of harmful policies that made the worst scenarios possible in the first place. Hard pass.
There's a reason marginalized folk want as little to do with police as possible. These things are it.
No, I'm not going too hard on police here. If anything I'm going way too soft. There were freaking YEARS of evidence, it required TWO BLOODY MURDERS for them to START doing shit besides practically encouraging this. The very, very least would be to own their own shit.]-
PS: a few days ago I've been ranting about the new zonification policies in Adelaide (SA, AU)¹ and the calls for overpolicing sex workers in the Netherlands².
This? This is one (ONE!) of the reasons those are terrible measures.
When the attention is on sex workers' behavior, 1) it's not on real issues, and 2) sex workers end up having to work in more dangerous conditions in order to avoid it, so 3) you end up with a mix ripe for abuses like this.
Same with the “Nordic Model” shitbag or the “end demand” nonsense (which is the same bag with "baked by econmics, very siencific!" hastily scribbled somewhere) — there has yet any proposal from those whose implementation didn't begin with “get police on sex workers' asses”, and the next step usually boils down to “and hope it magically does something”. That "something" only ever materializes as "harasses sex workers further"… 😮💨
#DecrimNow, dangit!
¹ On Adelaide's zonification proposal: https://kolektiva.social/@yenndc/117148955523663368
² On moral panics in the Netherlands: https://kolektiva.social/@yenndc/117140698028564710
#EnglishCollectiveOfProstitutes #GenderViolence #PoliceNegligence #UK #GBV #Criminalization #SexWork #EndGBV #AbolishPolice #August2026
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RE: https://kolektiva.social/@yenndc/117131968640614439
In case one wants something more official-sounding than [the quoted minirant] — here's SIN's* statement.
* SIN is South Australia's peer-led sex worker network.
#SexWork #SINSA #Adelaide #Australia #SouthAustralia #Zonification #Discrimination #DecrimNow
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«Scarlet Alliance's National Forum 2026»
🗓 17–19 November 2026
📍 Adelaide {details later} 🇦🇺
➕💻 Online attendance possible
✍️ Registration: https://form.jotform.com/Scarlet_Alliance/national-forum-registration
🎯 Sex workers only! 👠> It's time to register for the Scarlet Alliance National Forum! It's open and free to all sex workers and it's a fantastic way to connect with peers and find out about the issues that are important to us.
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TL;DR: South Australia pushes forward sex work zonification.
Beautiful. Just absolutely wonderful. No way this bites anyone's arse, nope. Certainly not the workers'. All completely fine. It's not like measures of this sort have probed themselves constantly harmful ('cept for the business getting a free monopoly), not at all.
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> Existing venues in the exclusion zones will not be impacted by the new rules
Gee, I wonder who might actually be profiting from this change. Utter mystery. No way one could guess.
The fact that historically zonification has almost always been pushed for and enforced by existing brothels to ensure monopoly (and free exploitation) is a complete coincidence, nothing whatsoever to do with this.
🤡
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> Mr Champion said these new changes would protect certain areas of the CBD from "what might be collectively known as strip joints and sex shops".
The fuck is this ****..?
Yeah, sure, protect people's delicate sensibilities from seeing a dildo or a nipple if they “accidentally” wander into a shop clearly labelled "SEX THINGS HERE" in neon letters, least they be traumatized for life…Much better the still completely allowed liquor, tobacco or betting joints, no doubt. 🙄
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> "These should be the places people want to live and visit and frequent and we want them to have a particular civic character, a strong civic character."
> "As more and more people move into the city, we want to give them certainty that the areas that they're moving into align with their expectation and continue to in the future."
In other words, “we find sex workers icky and want them away”. Goddamn these- 🤬
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> "No-one's making moral judgements about it, you know we live in a free society, and people are free to make their own choices."
What the… is this guy serious?
Hey, anyone over at Adelaide who can give this *&^%$#@! a GOOD smack (or two, or three)..?
I doubt he'll get any better or think this nonsense twice (or once), but he sure is asking for it. 🤦♀️
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#SexWork #Australia #Adelaide #SouthAustralia #Whorephobia #Discrimination #Policy
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«Hard Labour»
🗓️ 21st – 23rd August 2026
🏙️ Glasgow 🏴
📍 Transmission Gallery
(28 King Street)
✍️ Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/hard-labour-4856533
ℹ️ All information: https://arika.org.uk/hard-labour/> All welcome to a weekend of sex worker resistance and joy!
> Featuring workshops, talks and visual art in the form of a huge timeline of legislation around sex work, how it affects us and how we resist it.
> Hosted by Scotland for Decrim – a grassroots campaign fighting for the full decriminalisation of sex work in Scotland. We’re a welcoming group, whose members are both people with lived experience of sex work and allies.
> Hard Labour is a spark flying from the past into the future – from the fire of our long history of sex worker resistance, the flame of our current struggles to the warmth of our future dreams.
> Hard Labour is collective action, a labour of love, a welcome to make art.
> Partnering with Arika and Transmission our weekend of events invites you into a glimpse of our imagined futures, creating time in the now where we can truly exist.
‣ Programme:
🗓️ Friday 21st
• «Sex Work 101: The World’s Oldest Oppres(Profes)sion»
🕑 14:00–17:00 👥 NUM
• «Drinks and Nibbles»
🕔 17:00–18:30
• «How to Bury a Hospital: Listening for the Ghosts of a Glasgow Institution»
🕡 18:30–19:45
👤 Chaoying Rao 👤 Madi Awadalla🗓 Saturday 22nd
• «Sex Worker Breakfast»
🕥 10:30–12:30
🎯 Sex workers only (obviously)
• «Tell Me About It»
🕜 14:30–17:30
👥 The Human Library
• «Queer Sex Worker Shorts»
🕗 20:00–21:30
👥 Carnal Productions🗓 Sunday 22nd
• «Coffee, Croissants and Massage»
🕚 11:00–12:00
👥 Five Rivers Massage
• «Stripper Life Drawing»
🕛 12:00–14:00
👥 East London Stripper Collective
• «Resistance Renewed: Art / Sex / Work / Activism»
🕜 14:30–16:30
👤 Chaoying Rao
• «Badgemaking Workshop»
🕞 15:30–17:30
👤 Hank Ahmad “Green Bananas”RE: https://rss-parrot.net/u/nationaluglymugs.org/status/1787112208003556814
#SexWork #Scotland4Decrim #Glasgow #Scotland #UK #NationalUglyMugs #NUMbrellaLane #EastLondonStripperCollective #SWEvents #History #2026W34
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The background is done! Well, at least for now. I'll probably spend some time refining the details later, but our programmer has to start adding the assets soon so our new built will be ready for gamescom.
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New exclusion zones for adult entertainment venues in Adelaide's CBD
By Sharne WakefieldNew adult entertainment services including sex shops will be banned from operating in prominent locations across the Adelaide CBD and North Adelaide, but existing venues will be able to remain.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-20/exclusion-zones-for-new-adult-businesses/107058354
#BusinessandIndustryRegulation #LocalGovernment #SexWork #SharneWakefield
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Felt cute, time to sleep! I'll be back with a new #vibrator from HoneyPlay during the News #Flash, come test it out ;)
Tonight we're taking one step forward two steps back with #sex work decrim updates & AI's two uses: #Porn & hacking other #tech bros!#sapiosexial #findom #femdom #sexwork #camming #camgirl #sexworkiswork #sexynerd
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I’ll post my tits today if I make $20 in tips! 🥵
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CW: A little spicy but betasafe
This naughty newscaster is live & gushing to talk about tonight's topic, the things I can give you that AI can't ;)
We're live & the vibes are charged, come see if you can get some real human reactions out of me 😜
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«Protecting Your Digital Trail: Data Retention For Sex Workers»
🗓️ Wednesday June 17th 2026
💻 Online (Zoom) 🕓 16:00 CEST
✍️ Inscription: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/HryK3L6fTBqZfv75-1JRVg#/registration
👤 With Chloé Berthélém (from @edri)#ESWA #SexWork #Privacy #Security #DigitalLiteracy #Online #Workshop #SWEvents #2026W25
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«Protecting Your Digital Trail: Data Retention For Sex Workers»
🗓️ Wednesday June 17th 2026
💻 Online (Zoom) 🕓 16:00 CEST
✍️ Inscription: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/HryK3L6fTBqZfv75-1JRVg#/registration
👤 With Chloé Berthélém (from @edri)#ESWA #SexWork #Privacy #Security #DigitalLiteracy #Online #Workshop #SWEvents #2026W25
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«Protecting Your Digital Trail: Data Retention For Sex Workers»
🗓️ Wednesday June 17th 2026
💻 Online (Zoom) 🕓 16:00 CEST
✍️ Inscription: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/HryK3L6fTBqZfv75-1JRVg#/registration
👤 With Chloé Berthélém (from @edri)#ESWA #SexWork #Privacy #Security #DigitalLiteracy #Online #Workshop #SWEvents #2026W25
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«Protecting Your Digital Trail: Data Retention For Sex Workers»
🗓️ Wednesday June 17th 2026
💻 Online (Zoom) 🕓 16:00 CEST
✍️ Inscription: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/HryK3L6fTBqZfv75-1JRVg#/registration
👤 With Chloé Berthélém (from @edri)#ESWA #SexWork #Privacy #Security #DigitalLiteracy #Online #Workshop #SWEvents #2026W25
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«Protecting Your Digital Trail: Data Retention For Sex Workers»
🗓️ Wednesday June 17th 2026
💻 Online (Zoom) 🕓 16:00 CEST
✍️ Inscription: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/HryK3L6fTBqZfv75-1JRVg#/registration
👤 With Chloé Berthélém (from @edri)#ESWA #SexWork #Privacy #Security #DigitalLiteracy #Online #Workshop #SWEvents #2026W25
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> HAPPY IWD!!! Remember the roots of this day are in collective action, resistance, and solidarity. ⛓️💥
> THANK YOU to our community for supporting our PLeasure4Ever fundraiser. You showed up, showed out, and helped us raise $16K!!!
> Much more soon. For now, we are simply grateful.
— #BAWS 🇺🇸 #California #SanFrancisco
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> ❤️🔥On June 2, 1975, sex workers occupied Saint-Nizier Church in Lyon, France, protesting police harassment and criminalization. Today we honor their legacy and continue the fight for sex workers’ rights, safety, and dignity. #InternationalWhoresDay
— #Decrim305 🇺🇸 #Florida #Miami
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> This International Whores' Day, NJRUA and the Sex Workers Rights Coalition are demanding #RightsNotRescue and New Jersey lawmakers stop pushing a false trafficking narrative around World Cup games. https://njrua.org/2026/06/02/speak-up-on-international-whores-day-rights-not-rescue/ #RightsNotRescue #IWD2026 #IWD #FIFA #WorldCup2026
— #NJRUA 🇺🇸 #NewJersey
✍️ #Signatures: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfhM6vCUVQtntr-rtl_TQZYbpVLB3awYfEtTcmiSlms0Ca82Q/viewform
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I'm live for the #NSFW NewsFlash discussing how to convert alpha chads into polite, kind, respectful, and functioning members of society.
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Leggi il comunicato stampa che abbiamo firmato contro la violenza sessista su alcunə sex worker:
https://mastodon.bida.im/@corpieterra/116641004187847585
TW: il comunicato contiene menzione di violenza di genere.
#violenzadigenere #sexwork #nudm #violenzapatriarcale #sessismo #violenzadigenere