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The Law’s Mysterious Ways: A Systematic Review of the Effects of Sex Work Policies
Published: 11 September 2026
Benno Stevens & Stef AdriaenssensThis systematic review critically examines the literature to discuss the effects of sex work policies on various outcomes: safety, health, externalities, and the labour market.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13178-026-01413-7#Sec21
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The Law’s Mysterious Ways: A Systematic Review of the Effects of Sex Work Policies
Published: 11 September 2026
Benno Stevens & Stef AdriaenssensThis systematic review critically examines the literature to discuss the effects of sex work policies on various outcomes: safety, health, externalities, and the labour market.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13178-026-01413-7#Sec21
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The Law’s Mysterious Ways: A Systematic Review of the Effects of Sex Work Policies
Published: 11 September 2026
Benno Stevens & Stef AdriaenssensThis systematic review critically examines the literature to discuss the effects of sex work policies on various outcomes: safety, health, externalities, and the labour market.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13178-026-01413-7#Sec21
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The Law’s Mysterious Ways: A Systematic Review of the Effects of Sex Work Policies
Published: 11 September 2026
Benno Stevens & Stef AdriaenssensThis systematic review critically examines the literature to discuss the effects of sex work policies on various outcomes: safety, health, externalities, and the labour market.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13178-026-01413-7#Sec21
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«She Wore the Costume for a Month. We Wear It for Life»
A memorial for Gloria Steinem.https://www.swopbehindbars.org/post/she-wore-the-costume-for-a-month-we-wear-it-for-life
— SWOP Behind Bars 🇺🇸
It's speaks volumes about how insidious sex worker stigma is than even after experiencing it firsthand, it's still so easy to turn it around and play its consequences as an intrinsic to sex work.
Just imagine the first movements for labour rights had taken the same interpretation of the hideous exploitation and working conditions that motivated them…Anyway, great writeup.
Quoting their accompanying thread below.[There are other issues with Steinem's work and practices, yes. Some pretty damning. They don't really change any of this beyond making the wording look somewhat overcharitable, though, so I'm sharing anyway. Those issues likely explain the untouched "why". The point, the "what", basically remains the same.]
> In 1963, Gloria Steinem put on a fake name, a fake age, a satin corset, and took a job as a Playboy Bunny.
> Then she took the ears off, went home, and spent the next sixty years telling the world what it means to work in the sex industry.
> She wrote about the wage theft. She wrote about the required gynecological exam and bosses who treated a cocktail waitress’s body as a company asset. All of that was labor journalism, some of it was good.
> But the women she worked beside did not get a byline.
> They got written about.
> Steinem called the assignment a disaster, “personally and professionally.” Editors stopped taking her seriously. Men wouldn’t stop asking about the costume. She was describing exactly what stigma does to a person’s career.
> She just never seemed to notice that she was describing our lives.
> There were two lessons available from the Playboy Club.
> One: sexualized labor is labor, and the people who do it deserve wages, safety, and the right to organize
> Two: the sex industry is degrading, and women in it are victims who cannot describe their own experience.
> Steinem chose the second one.
> When Amnesty International moved toward supporting full decriminalization, after consulting sex workers on four continents, she signed on with the coalition that tried to stop it, alongside a roster of Hollywood names who had never worked a stroll or a strip club or a cam site in their lives.
> She championed the “Equality Model,” the “Nordic Model,” the “third way,” whatever the branding was that year. It is the same policy every time: keep the worker’s clients and colleagues illegal, keep her landlord and her driver and her security person prosecutable, and call that liberation.
> Why this matters to us specifically-
> SWOP Behind Bars exists because of what happens when powerful feminists decide that the women on the bottom need saving more than they need rights.
> Our people are in cells right now because of laws written by legislators who quote Gloria Steinem.
> She spent a month in a costume and used it as a credential for six decades.
> The feminism that put “abortion” on a magazine cover and the feminism that put sex workers in jail were the same feminism, from the same woman, and the movement she leaves behind has to reckon with that.> Rest in peace, Gloria. You fought hard. you Were right about a lot.
> But you were wrong about us.
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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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«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 -
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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«Not Your Mama's Feminism: The Policy in Practice - The Softer Side of Criminalization»
> What was once openly punitive is now framed as diversion, exit, or support. People are told they aren’t being punished - they’re being helped. But the help comes with conditions, and those conditions begin with arrest.
> The police still initiate the process. The courts still control the outcome.
> The assumption driving these systems is not subtle. It is the belief that people in the sex trade cannot be trusted to define their own needs, that safety must be coerced, and support only works when backed by punishment. Once this assumption is embedded in policy, autonomy is no longer possible.
> What disappears in these systems is not just flexibility, but real choice. Services are not offered freely. Under arrest-based “support” models, assistance is no longer something a person can opt into or out of; it becomes something they must earn through compliance.
> Genuine equality would treat sex work like every other form of labor affected by risk, stigma, and exploitation. It would mean access to services without arrest, healthcare without surveillance, job training without coercion, and the right to stay, leave, or transition on one’s own terms.
> Buyer criminalization and mandated exit programs do not offer equality. They offer control with better branding.
— SWOP Behind Bars 🇺🇸
💯
#SexWork #SWOPBehindBars #Criminalization #Decrim #DecrimNow
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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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and I know most of you don't have money either and all, but swers also need to eat, and what you don't NEED is free porn.
is even boosting, that doesn't cost you anything, too much when you're all here saying to anyone that YOU support sw?
will we need to go on a fucking fedi targeted strike to get "leftist" to just show basic support for our work ?
even you will struggle believe your own vocal and proud #sexWorkIsWork if you have to only watch bot boosted stolen porn or pornhub 🙄
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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 😜
#sapiosexial #findom #femdom #sexwork #camming #camgirl #sexworkiswork #sexynerd #bbw #hairypussy #panties -
> SWAN's office is temporarily closed during the FIFA World Cup due to a heavy police presence and surveillance in the downtown core, and the increased risk of arrest, detention and deportation of im/migrant sex workers.
🇨🇦👠📰 https://swanvancouver.ca/office-closed/
Sigh. When the “““safety””” measures to “““combat trafficking””” and “““protect women””” lead to organizations ACTUALLY providing safe and effective support to precarious, marginalized (and even up to actually trafficked) women HAVING TO CLOSE… 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
Clearly something ain't working right.
Sure isn't for the lack of warnings however. “Maybe” it's actually working just as intended after all… 😮💨Does anyone seriously believe half a word of the official pitches, anyway..? They keep getting more and more shameful by the day.
#DecrimNow, dangit!
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Fuck am I gonna copy any of that wall of text over here but oh my god I'm having a Final Straw moment I think. I'm not the only one either. This week seems to have been a breaking point for so many of my friends as well. Shit is just so tiring. It just gets worse.
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> «ACCESS TO JUSTICE»
> This is the theme of the INTERNATIONAL SEX WORKERS' DAY 2026.
> TAMPEP calls for an immediate end of the stigmatization of sex workers! Together with sex workers across Europe, we ask for equal rights.
> The working and living conditions of sex workers in Europe, mainly migrant sex workers, remain characterized by precarious circumstances. Discrimination, stigmatization and the increasing call for restrictive laws, particularly at EU level, are further exacerbating the situation.
> Sex workers’ communities, worldwide, therefore commemorate that day to call attention and make demands.
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> Every June 2nd we celebrate one of the most important days in the year: International Sex Workers' Day!
> This day marks the anniversary of the legendary occupation of the St Nizier church in Lyon, France, by a group of sex workers. They claimed the church for eight days to demand safety, dignity, and labour rights. Their bravery ignited a global movement that continues to inspire us every year.
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> International Sex Workers' Rights Day. Sex work is work.
> We demand the full recognition, protection, and fulfilment of sex workers' labour, health, and human rights in law and policy.
> Nothing about sex workers without sex workers. Sex workers are organisers, leaders, and agents of change. Their voices must be at the centre of all decisions that affect their lives.
> We reject all forms of criminalisation of sex work. We reject the ongoing conflation of sex work with trafficking and gender-based violence, narratives that fuel stigma, increase harm, and strip people of rights and safety. Sex workers' rights are human rights!
> Today, we amplify the voices of TGEU Board Members Tayri Fadil (she/her) and Alex Shah (she/her).
> “Today we honour SWers leading the struggle. We demand full decriminalisation, labour rights, and legal protection for migrant and trans SWers. End police harassment and persecution. Solidarity, resistance, and collective power until we win justice and safety for all SWers.” — Tayri Fadil
> “On this day, we amplify the political demands of sex workers for full decriminalisation, labour recognition, social protection, migration justice, and freedom from state violence, surveillance, and stigma. This day is a transnational call for bodily autonomy, intersectional justice, and the unequivocal protection of sex workers’ human rights. Sex workers are the ancient, present, and future of labour.” — Alex Shah
> Follow our friends at ESWA to stay up to date with the sex worker movement. #SexWork #SexWorkIsWork #EndTheStigma #RightsNotRescue #TransRights #TransRightsAreHumanRights
— #TGEU 🇪🇺🏳️⚧️
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> International Sex Workers' Day ❤️
> Today commemorates the occupation of the Saint-Nizier church in Lyon on 2 June 1975 by 100+ sex workers.
> Advocating for the full decriminalization of SW and pushing back against discrimination, systemic abuse, and violence directed at SWers.
> #SexWorkIsWork! 👠
— #NZPC 🇳🇿 #NewZealand
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> Today, KNESWO Feminist Initiative stands in solidarity with refugee, migrant, and internally displaced sex workers in all their diversity.
> Sex workers' rights are human rights. Dignity, safety, justice, and equality for all.
> #InternationalSexWorkersRightsDay #SexWorkersRightsAreHumanRights #KNESWO
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> Today, on International Sex Workers’ Day, we honor the resilience, courage, and contributions of sex workers worldwide.
> Every person deserves dignity, safety, access to healthcare, and protection from violence, discrimination, and stigma. Sex workers’ rights are human rights.
> Together, let us amplify their voices, challenge harmful stereotypes, and advocate for policies that promote justice, inclusion, and equality for all.
> #InternationalSexWorkersDay2026 #EndTheStigma
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> On this International Sex Workers Day Sisonke_ZA expresses deep concern at the continued delays in advancing the decriminalisation of sex work into law.
> The criminalisation of sex work creates conditions that enable abuse, exploitation and discrimination. #HumanRights
— #Sisonke 🇿🇦 #SouthAfrica
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> #June2 we commemorate #InternationalSexWorkersDay to honour the courage, resilience and ongoing struggle of sex workers for dignity, human rights, health, safety and #Justice.
> When #SWs are safe, healthy and empowered, communities are stronger and inclusive for everyone.
> June 2 marks #InternationalSexWorkersDay, honoring lives lost to violence and stigma since 1975.Chisungo Trust remembers, resists, and continues the work.We fight for: ✔️ Decriminalization ✔️ Access to health ✔️ An end to violence against Male Sex Workers #SexWorkIsWork.
— #ChisungoTrust 🇿🇼
> 🚨 Today on International Sex Workers’ Day, Springs of Life Zimbabwe demands an end to the systemic violence and criminalization of sex workers. Why is their safety treated as optional? No one should live in fear of assault.We call on the government to urgently decriminalize sex work the ZRP to end arbitrary arrests, and healthcare systems to provide stigma-free care.
> "Sex work is work, and sex workers' rights are human rights." — Ms. Precious Msindo, Programmes Coordinator.
> #ISWD2026 #DecriminalizeSexWork #EndGBV #Zimbabwe
— #SoLZ 🇿🇼
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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.
Find me on my #camsites, podcast audio on clubhouse!#sexwork #camming #camgirl #sexworkiswork #sexynerd #bbw #panties #silkblouse #blousefetish #lacepanties
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RE: https://kolektiva.social/@yenndc/116583668235187224
TL;DR — why you should pay a sex worker instead of playing pretend with a chatbot “““girlfriend”””.
… I mean, that wasn't the point, but it *does* apply as well.
#SexWork #AI #AIGirlfriend #AIChatbot #StopGenAI #NoGenAI #SexWorkers
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«A History of Sex Work Criminalisation in the UK»
📼 Recording: https://vimeo.com/1053533730
🌐 Archive: https://decriminalisedfutures.org/a-history-of-sex-work-criminalisation-in-the-uk
📄 Transcription: https://decriminalisedfutures.org/media/pages/a-history-of-sex-work-criminalisation-in-the-uk/1666a99c3e-1744755010/edited-transcript-a-history-of-sex-work-criminalisation-in-the-uk.pdf
📄 Summary: https://decriminalisedfutures.org/media/pages/a-history-of-sex-work-criminalisation-in-the-uk/e891876ca2-1744822244/edited-summary_-a-history-of-sex-work-criminalisation-in-the-uk.pdf> This session examined the criminalisation of women's sexual labour in London from the mid-19th century to the 1960s. We looked at relevant histories of trafficking and migration, and at early 20th century decriminalisation campaigns. Dr Julia Laite shared her research on the effects of criminalisation on the sex industry and the experiences of women who sold sex, while emphasising how these laws intersect with gender, class, and race.
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Honestly, this does not need much of an introduction. ^~
But just to highlight a few of the topics discussed…
• How did brothels turn from houses collectively-rented by prostitutes to mostly-male-landlords-owned rooms charged at ridiculous prices?
• What has been the historical result of tacking repression of comercial sex into laws intended to address trafficking or exploitation?
• What was abolitionism when applied to sex work at the time, and how does it relate (or not) to current neoabolitionism (“Nordic Model”)?
• How did police's treatment of prostitutes shift through that time?
• How did migration mix in with all of that?
… and quite a bit more. ^~
Seriously, it's a really recommended listen/read. 💖
#SexWork #LadyOfTheNightSchool #DecriminalisedFutures #History #Criminalization #Intersectionality #Policing #UK #October2021
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ESWA's March newsletter is published~ 💖 📰 Check it out at their website! 👈 🧵 Or look through the thread below~ (0/14) CC: @[email protected] #ESWAMonthly #March2026 #SexWork #Europe #ESWA #Newsletter
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ESWA's March newsletter is published~! 💖
📰 Check it out at: https://www.eswalliance.org/your_eswa_monthly_-_march_new_key_updates_on_sex_workers_rights
🧵 Or look through the thread below~ (0/10)
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Report launch: «Sex Workers Navigating Gendered Poverty»
🗓 Monday 30th March
💻 Online 🕓 13:00–14:30 UTC
✍️ https://www.eventbrite.com/e/decrim-now-report-launch-sex-workers-navigating-gendered-poverty-tickets-1983265489467> Next Monday 30th March, 2-3.30pm, we’ll be hosting an online event to discuss the findings of our autumn 2025 research report on why people go into sex work and remain in it, and what they’d like the government to do to support them.
> We’ll be joined for a panel discussion by colleagues from the English Collective of Prostitutes, National Ugly Mugs, BASIS Yorkshire and Amnesty International UK. We’re looking forward to discussing the current situation for sex workers’ rights in the UK, as well as how the cost of living crisis could be contributing to driving more people, especially women, into sex work.
— 🦋 https://bsky.app/profile/decrimnow.bsky.social/post/3mhsr5uoqfk2h
❤️🔥🤩❤️🔥
#SexWork #DecrimNow #UK #Precarity #Poverty #ECP #NUM #BASIS #AmnestyInternational #Online #2026W14
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Neues aus dem Berufsverband erotische und sexuelle Dienstleistungen (BesD e.V.):
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Neues aus dem Berufsverband für erotische und sexuelle Dienstleistungen (BesD e.V.):
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"#Sexwork in #Sweden operates under the #NordicModel, also known as the “Equality,” “Entrapment,” or “End Demand Model,” which #criminalizes #buyingsex but not selling sex. The text of the newly-passed bill states that criminal liability for the purchase of #sexualservices shouldn’t have to require physical contact between the buyer and seller anymore, and should expand to online sex work, too.
Sweden’s law isn’t isolated to European countries. In the U.S., #Maine adopted the Nordic Model in 2023."
https://www.404media.co/sweden-sex-work-internet-law-nordic-model/
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Hallo, #sexwork - Blase: ich recherchier grade in Richtung Freieraufklärung/ #menschenhandel und wundere mich, dass ich einschlägige Kampagnen (es gab welche von TdF und anderen zB. zur WM 2006) nur noch via Archive finde. Giibt es einen Grund, dass das "Freier, meldet Anzeichen für #zwangsprostitution" grade gefühlt sehr tief gehängt ist?
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Press release: Sex workers in Ireland face more stigma than other countries says new research
SWAI and other sex workers' rights advocates have welcomed the new research published today by Dr. Lynzi Armstrong, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand that finds that criminalisation harms sex workers in Ireland.
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The law is failing to reduce the number of people who purchase sex. However, the Queens University research that reviewed how the law was operating in Northern Ireland said that the law had created an atmosphere of fear that had an impact on the sex worker’s psychological wellbeing.
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There is an inherent imbalance of power when the person who is paying for sex has the power to arrest, detain or deport the sx worker. The law has failed, yet again, to deter purchasers and to put the balance of power back in favour of sx workers.
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Here is a great post, written by an active sex worker, about why the Nordic Model of client criminalisation is failing sex workers. We have client criminalisation in Ireland and it has not reduced trafficking or exploitation but it has increased violence and stigma.
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Right, so where's that leave us, folks who want tax money to maybe help people?
Come on down to the Seattle City Council meeting, Sept 17th, 2024, 2pm! ✨
We're probably gonna be fining homeless people $5k for existing instead of building housing, city council should probably hear from you. 📢
This one seems important, mark your calendar👇🏿
https://seattle.gov/council/calendar?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D171885610
#Seattle #I137 #Homeless #SocialHousing #SexWork #StopAndFrisk #CathyMoore
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CW: "Nordic Model" critique (sex trade law)
Useful explainer from @pandorablake about the so-called "Nordic Model" (criminalising people who pay for sex). It's often presented as being protective to women, but its real-life outcomes don't line up with that.
"Under the Nordic model, sex workers are obliged to protect clients from police attention in order to get work, rather than police protecting sex workers from abusive clients."
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Bez skrupułów wyrwane z profilu Mocna Kultura na FB. Niech ktoś tego gościa ściągnie na fedi...Długo zastanawiałem się czy pokazać Wam ten obraz. Czy pisać o nim? Kiedy się wahałem, przypomniałem sobie, co czyni malarstwo Henriego de Toulouse-Lautreca niezwykłym. Czego by mi nigdy nie wybaczył. On pokazywał PRAWDĘ i byłby na mnie wściekły, gdybym ją ukrywał, bo może kogoś zakłuć w oczy. Bo to nie piękno formalne jego dzieł, nie płynne linie i nie atmosfera Moulin Rouge, ale PRAWDA jest najważniejszym osiągnięciem Lautreca. To dzięki niej zapisał się w historii sztuki i w naszych sercach. Dlatego dzisiaj opowiem Wam o „Inspekcji medycznej w domu publicznym przy rue des Moulins” z 1894 roku zdobiącej zbiory National Gallery of Art w Waszyngtonie.
Trafiłem na ten obraz przygotowując się do prezentacji Mocna Kultura Show Live o Lautreku. Trafiłem, bo trzeba się nieco namęczyć, by go znaleźć. Żadna ze stron internetowych o sztuce nie pokazuje go, gdy pisze o Lautreku. „Inspekcja” jest zbyt „fe”, żeby wplatać ją w bajeczne opowieści o malarzu, który „odmalował Belle Epoque”. Szkoda, że niemal nikt spośród prowadzących blogi o sztuce, nie decyduje się wejść w trzewia tamtych czasów. Z drugiej strony rozumiem ten strach. „Ładne” posty lepiej się klikają...
W historii, którą Wam opowiem Belle Epoque będzie mało „belle”. Bo piękna była tylko dla wybranych. Świat pań w szeleszczących sukniach i dżentelmenów w cylindrach funkcjonował obok świata brudu, biedy i przemocy. I to ten drugi był większy. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec jako jedyny pokazał w sztuce to pękniecie społeczeństwa fin-de-siecle’u. „Inspekcja” jest dla mnie niemalże oskarżeniem wobec świata sukni i cylindrów.
💗 W 1892 roku Henri namalował serię obrazów, która do dziś pozostaje, przynajmniej dla mnie, największym arcydziełem czułości i bliskości międzyludzkiej. To 4 obrazy prostytutek z domu publicznego przy rue d'Ambroise, leżących wspólnie w łóżkach. Mówi się, że to obrazy miłości lesbijskiej. Dla mnie to hymny po prostu do miłości jako takiej. Najsłynniejszym z nich jest obraz zatytułowany „Łóżko” (1892, Musee d’Orsay). Namalować je mógł tylko z jednego powodu i namalować mógł je tylko on. O tym za kilka chwil.
🖌️ Dwa lata później Lautrec zaczął być częstym gościem w domu publicznym przy rue des Moulins. Stworzył serię obrazów i rysunków pokazujących sceny z życia tego przybytku. Jednym z najsłynniejszych jest „W salonie rue des Moulins” przechowywany przez muzeum Toulouse-Lautreca w Albi. Tym mniej sławnym, wyklętym do dziś (o tym na końcu) jest nasza „Inspekcja”. Więc teraz o niej.
🖼️ Dwie prostytutki stoją w kolejce do okresowych badań ginekologicznych, prowadzonych przez lekarza wysłanego przez władze miasta. Ma on ustalić, czy nie złapały jakiejś choroby wenerycznej i tym samym czy są zdolne do dalszej pracy.
Pierwsza kobieta - nazwę ją "Blondynką" - jest wyraźnie znużona. Bezwolnie oczekuje swojej kolei do badania. Jakże daleko w tym portrecie od wizji uśmiechniętych trzpiotek w falbaniastych sukniach. Twarz zmęczona, okolona ledwo co uczesanymi blond włosami. Stojąca za nią kobieta - nazwę ją "Ruda" - patrzy z ukosa na malarza. Na nas. Jej policzki toną w różowym pudrze. A może to... rumieniec wstydu?
„Blondynka” – złożył ręce na przezroczystej halce. „Ruda” jest półnaga. Ma na sobie tylko przejrzysty materiał narzucony na ramiona. Obie nie zdjęły "służbowych", czarnych pończoch. Ale jest jeszcze ktoś.
Za nimi, odwrócona do nas, stoi "Madam" - burdelmama. Ona nie musi przechodzić tej upokarzającej procedury. Kiedyś i owszem, pracowała w ten sposób, ale teraz to ona tu zarządza i od usług seksualnych ma stadko podopiecznych.
Co ciekawe, Lautreka wcale nie interesuje lekarz. Nie ma go na obrazie i gdyby nie tytuł, nie domyślilibyśmy się nawet, w czym uczestniczymy.
Wszystko nakreślone jest zachwycającymi, pewnymi ruchami pędzla. Lautrec obrysował ciała kobiet ciemną obwódką, którą wypełnił koncertem drobnych pociągnięć farbą. Kiedy przyjrzycie się z bliska, zobaczycie, że na tym obrazie nie ma ani jednej plamy barwnej o czystym kolorze! Halka „Blondynki” mieni się różem, fioletem, zielenią i bielą, rzuconymi na niebieski podkład. Czarne pończochy tak naprawdę są wirem ziemistej zieleni, fioletu i granatu.
🖌️ Absolutnie mistrzowskie jest tło - podłoga i ściana toną w rdzawo-rudych uderzeniach pędzla. Szybkie kreskowania tylko sygnalizują istnienie tych powierzchni.
🆓 Co ważne, Lautrec świadomie zostawia niezamalowane duże fragmenty kartonu, na którym powstał obraz. To "wytoczenie wojny" oficjalnemu malarstwu "salonowemu". W wyższych sferach, "porządny" malarz musiał nie tylko dokładnie zamalować całą powierzchnię obrazu, ale powinien ją jeszcze "wylizać" gładkimi pociągnięciami pędzla i pokryć lakierowanym werniksem.
Henri mówi "mam to gdzieś!"❗
✍️ Całość ma charakter szybkiej notatki. Uchwycenie chwili, którego dokonać potrafi tylko prawdziwy mistrz 🏆
Lautrec w niezauważalny sposób wprowadził w ten obraz niepokój. Może tego nie widzicie, ale podświadomie czujecie. Jak to zrobił?
U kogoś innego mogłoby to uchodzić za błąd kompozycyjny, ale nie u niego! Pomyślcie. Gdyby sportretował tylko te dwie kobiety, zachowana byłaby symetria, a obraz tchnąłby wizualnym spokojem. Ale on rozdziela karton na dwie, nierówne części. Osią podziału jest, zdawkowo nakreślone, okno w tle (na którym zdołał trzema kreskami oddać kształt wazonu z kwiatami!). Lewa część w całości zajęta jest przez postać „Blondynki”. W prawej ścisnął „Rudą” i Maman, zaburzając w ten sposób statykę kompozycji.
👏 Delikatny manewr, ale jakże mistrzowski. Dzięki niemu nasza podświadomość, kochająca przecież symetrię jako synonim spokoju, wchodzi w stan lekkiego rozedrgania. Czujemy, że ta scena nie jest fajna. Nie powinno jej nigdy być, a te dziewczyny nie powinny się tam znaleźć. Ale inspekcja jest, one są, a świat nie składa się z lukrowanych ciastek.
💔 Nie ma tu żadnej erotyki. Żadnego "belle". Jest szorstka, ostra jak żyletka prawda o sex-biznesie na Montmartre. Dla mnie, Lautrec do farb dodał emocje: zrozumienie, współodczuwanie i szacunek dla losu tych kobiet.
❓ Zapytacie, co jest tak dramatycznego w momencie, który pokazuje Lautrec? Dla tych kobiet zła weryfikacja, na przykład wykrycie syfilisu, oznaczała tragedię. Chora prostytutka nie była potrzebna w domu publicznym o „dobrej reputacji”. Jedna „pracownica” zarażająca klientów narażała cały interes na utratę „marki” i bankructwo. W związku z tym była natychmiast usuwana z pracy, wpis o chorobie trafiał do jej urzędowej książeczki zdrowia. Wyrzucona na ulicę, schodziła po kolejnych stopniach na same dno. Dlatego to dramatyczny moment.
😲 Czy wiecie, że patrzycie na obraz, który nie miała prawa powstać? Że łamał wszelkie istniejące w 1894 roku zasady? Henri był hrabią de Toulouse-Lautrec. To jeden z najbardziej szanowanych rodów Francji, dawni władcy wielkich połaci ziem na zachodzie kraju. Był arystokratą. A wyższe sfery wiązał wtedy drastyczny kodeks postępowania. Łańcuch znany jako savoir-vivre, trzymający - jak na smyczy - zwłaszcza kobiety.
📖 Agnieszka Lisak w swojej przeciekawej książce „Życie towarzyskie w XIX wieku” opisuje, co było nieobyczajne. Dama miała być wrażliwa, delikatna, ckliwa, a kiedy trzeba – melancholijna. Powinna na zawołanie zalewać się łzami, dostawać migren i duszności. Nad obyczajnością kobiety z wyższych sfer czuwały posępne matrony, bez litości obgadujące każdy błąd towarzyski.
Kobieta z dobrego domu nie mogła sama chodzić po ulicach, do teatru czy na bal. Pokazanie się w miejscu publicznym wymagało asysty męża, kogoś z krewnych lub służącej. Uniesienie sukni tak, by odsłaniała bucik damy traktowano jak zachowanie pornograficzne.
Nad wszystkim wisiał miecz „zszargania reputacji” – swoim cięciem wykluczający z towarzystwa.
😬 Jak głęboki był absurd tych zasad? Kodeks przewidywał, że na przykład na balu, córka nie mogła sama wyjść z sali balowej i pójść do bufetu. Lisek cytuje fragment z polskiego poradnika „Pani domu” M. Rościszewskiego z 1904 (!) roku, skierowany do młodych dam: „Oczyma nie strzelaj po stronach; nie spoglądaj na nikogo ukosem, ani okiem pogardzającym i pysznym, a gdy z kim mówisz, nie wpatruj mu się w twarz, lecz niżej ku ziemi”. Biorąc poprawkę na zapóźnienie Polski, w 1894 roku w Paryżu, te zasady już obowiązywały. Zresztą pan Rościszewski brał je z Paryża właśnie.
Czy teraz rozumiecie jaką rewolucją, wstrząsem dla towarzystwa, były obrazy z burdeli malowane przez hrabiego de Toulouse-Lautrec? Jak ogromnie odważny był Henri i jak bardzo pogardzał towarzyskim bagienkiem malując kobiety, o których samo wspomnienie w wyższych sferach było grubym nietaktem?
👨🎨 Pierwsze obrazy z prostytutkami namalował w 1886 roku gdy miał 22 lata. Wtedy zrozumiał ostatecznie, że nigdy nie doczeka się „normalnej” miłości. Pokraczny karzeł z bulwiastym nosem i wargami wielkimi jak balony, nieustannie śliniący się ze zdeformowanej szczęki nie mógł liczyć na uczucie „prawdziwej damy”. Wykonał więc krok, po którym nie było powrotu. I nigdy go zresztą nie szukał.
📰 1886 był ważnym rokiem, bo również wtedy powstały jego pierwsze rysunki na zamówienie prasy paryskiej. Studiował wtedy w pracowni Fernanda Cormona z Louisem Anquetinem, Emile’m Bernardem i Vincentem van Goghiem. Ta trójka, wraz z innymi studentami – Francisco Gauzim i Henrim Rachou, tworzyła zgraną paczkę przyjaciół. No może akurat Vincent był nieco mniej zgrany, ale on generalnie miał trudności ze zgrywaniem się z kimkolwiek.
💃👩🎤 Na Montmartre rodziły się w tym czasie pierwsze cafe-concerts vel cafes-chantants. Wbrew pozorom nie przy kawie, ale winie i absyncie, tłoczyły się tam tłumy słuchającew zjawiskowych pieśniarek jak Yvette Guilbert czy patrząc na narodziny le kadril realistique. Ten taniec znamy dziś, nieco błędnie, jako kankan. Najsłynniejszymi cafe-concerts były Le Chat Noir Adolphe’a Salisa i jego następca, Mirliton Aristide’a Bruanta.
🔝 Henri wstępował właśnie na top paryskiej sztuki, chociaż rakieta z napisem „Toulouse-Lautrec” wystartuje dopiero w 1891 roku. Wtedy stworzy słynny plakat promujący Moulin Rouge. On uczyni go sławnym w całej Francji. Znienawidzonym i kochanym zarazem.
Malując dziewczyny z domów publicznych Henri odkrył prawdę, która poraziła go jak piorun. Jak pisze jego biografka Julia Frey, zrozumiał, że prostytutki są bardziej naturalne, niż płatne modelki z pracowni, bo „mniej skupiają się na swoim wyglądzie i są dużo swobodniejsze”. Są prawdziwsze.
Gdy powstawała nasza „Inspekcja” był już innym człowiekiem niż w 1886 roku. Na Montmartre nie było nikogo, kto nie znałby Lautreka. Malował największe sławy świata kabaretów, miał swoich marszandów i… pił. Na umór. Codziennie.😢
Żaden sukces i żadna przyjaźń nie mogły go powstrzymać. Nawet nowa wielka fascynacja – litografia. W 1891 zaczął tworzyć litografie i od razu okazał się geniuszem tej zapomnianej ówcześnie techniki. 26-letni artysta stworzył nowy styl, który niedługo stanie się podwaliną dla współczesnego plakatu.
📰 Po pierwszej wystawie indywidualnej w galerii Boussod et Valadon posypały się recenzje. Gazeta „Le Temps” pisała: „Jest pan bezlitosny wobec bliźnich i cyniczny. Odkrywa pan wrzody na ciele tego świata. Bardzo to śmiałe”. Gustave Geffroy w „La Justice” gromił krytyków odsądzających Lautreka od czci i wiary: „Wnikliwość jego obserwacji, widzenia tego, co pokazuje jako niezasługujące na litość, to opowiedzenie się za pięknem życia”. Roger Marx w „La Rapida” notował: „Dociekliwa analiza i precyzja wyrazu, okrutna, nieubłagana zdolność obserwacji”. Taki jest nasz dzisiejszy obraz.
👑 Przez moment wydawało się, że wróci na salony wyższych sfer. W 1893 roku zaprzyjaźnił się z polskimi Żydami Alexandre i Thadee Natansonami. Wydawali oni pismo „La Revue Blanche”, które miało wielkie znaczenie dla kształtowania się sztuki. Dodatkowo Thadee był mężem Misi Natanson-Godebskiej, która prowadziła jeden z najsłynniejszych salonów artystycznych Paryża. Lautrec bywał tam, bawił się, ale szybko zrozumiał, że to nie jego miejsce. Jego świat był już gdzie indziej.
I tu dochodzimy do wyjaśnienia, dlaczego tylko on mógł namalować „Łóżko” i „Inspekcję”.
Kobiety z domów publicznych, w których bywał, zaakceptowały go jako kogoś swojego. „Towarzystwu” trudno byłoby to sobie wyobrazić, ale w latach 90-tych zaczął przeprowadzać się na długie tygodnie do burdeli. Od „maman” – szefowej przybytku, dostawał własny pokój i żył życiem pracujących tam kobiet. Z czasem zaczynały traktować go jako naturalną część ich życia. Pozwalały obserwować się przy codziennych czynnościach, czasem zwierzały się i wypłakiwały mu na ramieniu. Henri żadnej z nich nie osądzał i nie traktował z góry. W jakiś dziwny sposób darzył je ciepłem i uczuciem. Korzystał też z ich usług, żeby nie było tu opowieści romantycznej jak uderzenie Hanki Mostowiak w kartony.
W domach publicznych czuł się na swoim miejscu. Tam odnajdywał spokój i czuł się członkiem tej społeczności. Tak jak dziewczyny z „Perroquet Gris” czy rue des Moulins, czuł się człowiekiem wyrzuconym na margines społeczeństwa. Odrzuconym przez „normalnych”. One z racji zawodu, on z racji wyglądu. Nie zgadzał się też na jedno – hipokryzję, która pozwalała piętnować kobiety z domów publicznych, przez ludzi, którzy korzystali z ich usług. Patrzył z coraz większym obrzydzeniem na wyfiokowane damy i panów w świecących cylindrach.
⚔️ Bezlitośnie pokazywał rozbieżność między męskimi fantazjami na temat prostytutek, a ich prawdziwym życiem. Jak pisze Marta Frey, brutalnie niszczył męskie wyobrażenia przybytku rozkoszy pokazując upokorzenie kobiety traktowanej jak przedmiot.
Taka jest „Inspekcja”. Obraz bezlitośnie odsłaniający prawdę.
Od czasów Lautreca niewiele się zmieniło. Dlaczego? Przez 80 lat „Inspekcję” dopuszczono tylko czterokrotnie na wystawy poświęcone Lautrekowi. Raz w Philadelphia Museum of Art i trzy razy w muzeum, do którego należy, National Gallery of Art w Waszyngtonie. Hipokryzja żyje i ma się dobrze.
Auguste Renoir powiedział o obrazach Lautreca: „Często są pornograficzne, ale zawsze przeraźliwie smutne”. Nie zgodzę się z tym zdaniem.
Obrazy Henriego są przeraźliwie prawdziwe, a prawda to blask.
Jakkolwiek by to światło nas nie oślepiało 💗☀️
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☕ PS: moje opowieści to owoc pasji i ciężkiej pracy researchera. Jeżeli doceniacie tę pracę i postawicie mi wirtualną kawę, będę wdzięczny: BuyCoffee.to łamane przez /mocnakultura ☕💗
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EU Parliament committee calls for criminalisation of prostitution clients https://www.euractiv.com/section/economy-jobs/news/eu-parliament-committee-calls-for-criminalisation-of-prostitution-clients/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #EuropeanParliament #FEMM #Nordicmodel #prostitution #sexwork
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CW: discussing when/why I might switch to a female-nipple-friendly but not sex worker or nudist-focused instance
so far I've been happy on @eldritch.cafe (even though I don't speak French, the people and mods on here have been decent, and the 5000 character limit on posts is much appreciated.) but as you'd expect from a smaller instance, I get very few or no results for many tags that are important to me, like #contentCreator #youtube #twitch #livestream #videoInterview #vlogger #videoEssayist #socialCommentary #thepatriarchy and many similar tags.
so it might be useful for me to try out another, more content creator-inclusive server sometime. but I'm not sure there's really a perfect fit out there.
for one thing, character count is important to me, and so many instances (I presume founded by Twitter users) leave theirs at the default 500, which I find stifling. even 1000 is frequently irritating, when I've gotten used to 5000. I also don't understand the appeal of tight character limits, since people just then write out long, rambling threads of posts, that can easily be taken out of context to warp their whole argument and leave them rife for misinterpretation (see: "quote tweeting")
beyond that, while my videos focus on so many #progressive causes I care about, like #feminism #lgbtq #queer #equalRights #genderdiscrimination #genderEquality #houselessness #mentalHealthcare #transRights #racialEquality and many other #leftwing #USpolitics, because I do my videos topless, there are basically no platforms I can host my content until I can somehow convince sponsors to pay me so I can set up my own hosting-- @tio is kind enough to let me post my uncensored videos to his #peertube server, but there's no real searchability within peertube (as evinced by how many people suggest I post my content to peertube, which I already have been for years...) and putting censored videos of my videos on mainstream platforms that tell people to visit my website to see my uncensored videos doesn't work well, both because of how often my content gets #banned even when it's fully censored (thanks, haters), and because many people are a little, well... 😏 I can only say "follow the link written on the video" (because I'll get banned for "linking to porn" if I put a clickable link in my video description or social media post) so many times.
back to switching instances, the main reason I picked Eldritch Cafe several years ago is because, being French, they don't have the same blatantly misogynistic puritanical views towards "female nipples" being unacceptable viewing outside of explicit sexual situations. they just want them placed under a content warning, as you'd expect on basically every server. but alas, like I said, there just aren't really any other content creators that I've found on here, especially not vloggers/social commentary/video essayists like me (idk what the distinction is, really). that's why it might make more sense for me to move instances, much as I've come to feel comfortable here.
but then the crux of the problem arises--I am, first and foremost, a #toplessequality activist. I want "the same rights for 'female looking nipples' that 'male looking nipples' get." while I was raised a nudist, and for a little while there I did a fair amount of content catering to nudists (talking about #nudism / #naturism , being fully naked instead of just topless, etc...) but I've really been finding the urge to distance myself from nudists lately, for reasons I go into detail here: https://www.toplesstopics.org/nomorenudism/ the tl;dr version is that just talking about nudism all the time is boring to me, and I resent how so many of the (straight cis male) nudists who would exchange my videos amongst themselves would skim right past my whole "fight for gender equality" and just use me as a (more culturally appealing than yet more straight white cis male) nudist figurehead. a lot of nudists are also very anti-sex worker, which goes against my morals- I fully believe that #sexWorkIsWork, and any #consensual #sexWork is fine by me.
what I resent is that, when it comes to mainstream platforms, only being allowed to post my uncensored female nipples on platforms that allow explicit sexual material. I am NOT a sex worker, I DO NOT do anything actually sexual in my videos-- I have interviews with #adultFilm actors, #camgirls, #kink educators, etc, but it's discussion only, we don't DO anything sexual, or go into graphic detail about sexual acts. but because of puritanical American society, the only places I can simply be topless-while-female is on places like Onlyfans, Mewe and Joystick.tv - - places already overflowing with porn.
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Question for current and former sex workers who have had top surgery and were sex workers both before and after:
How did the change impact your sw career from a financial perspective? Please share your experiences in the replies or a DM if you feel comfy doing so!
#poll #polls #topsurgery #trans #sexworkers #sexworker #sexwork #lgbt #question #questions #sw #swer #fetishmodel #pornperformer #pornperformers #eroticlabor #pornactor #porncreators #porncreator #transsexworker #transsexworkers
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Remember to watermark everything you post that you want to have tracked back to your stage name! That way if/when your work is stolen and distributed, it serves as advertising and potential new fans aren't left sadly unable to trace the origins of their new favorite images
#sexworkadvice #sexworktip #sexworktips #sexwork #sexworker #sexworkers #porncreator #porncreators #creator #creators #contentcreator #contentcreationtips #contentcreators #contentcreatortips #watermark #watermarks
