Everyday whorephobia is a collective, any current or former sex worker who agrees with harm reduction, decriminlization and our core beliefs (detailed here) can represent us. This representation can be on twitter, writing for the blog or at events. It has to be this way for we believe no one is representative and every sex […]
September 25, 2014
Reposted with permission from Sometimes its just a cigar Go to any working class neighbourhood in the UK where children are playing and it will not be long before you see a preteen girl with toddler on her hip. It is a pose of someone used to caring responsibilities, unconscious and natural, a pose […]
May 2, 2014
We would like to thank Vivian Valentine for this post, feminists are often seen as the enemy by sex workers, this is an important contribution to a more nuanced debate. As a woman, social science/media studies academic (with some gender studies courses under my belt) and feminist, I have long pondered the idea of sex […]
November 11, 2013
October 17, 2013
reposted with kind permission from http://sometimesitsjustacigar.wordpress.com/ Sometimes I wake up, the sun is shining, the birds are singing and I think, perhaps we pay too much attention to the extremists. The average person cannot see why sex work is criminalized and wants people to be safe and able to access services. Then a clusterfuck so vile […]
October 8, 2013
“Don’t put us out on the streets. Save Soho.” Soho sex workers and supporters protest against evictions and the destruction of Soho by developers. PROTEST 11am, Wednesday 9 October Outside Soho Estates, Portland House 12-13 Greek Street, London, W1D 4DL Women in 26 Romilly Street are facing eviction on Wednesday 9 October as […]
October 7, 2013
A post everyone should read, all the common lies about sex work and their rebuttals in one place The Honest Courtesan And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. – John 8:32 I recently realized that because the prohibitionists have a set of stock lies they can repeat in an […]
October 5, 2013
by @notahappyhooker It’s late, and hardly the best time to be starting a blog based on rage at having our experiences as sex workers appropriated by a bunch of publicity seeking twunts who think having feels about sex workers and shouting them from the rooftop is an acceptable way to behave. I suppose after Sinead […]
October 1, 2013
Today the European Women’s Lobby continued their crusade against sex work, hosting a day where they continued to perpetuate a number of myths, lies, and stigmatizing beliefs about sex work. No current sex workers or sex workers rights groups were invited to speak. We believe that this moral campaign will endanger sex workers and is […]
September 21, 2013
We are disappointed by the confusion being created by the Nottingham conference organisers around why current sex workers were excluded from their conference. We are aware that this is being presented as a ticketing issue. This obscures the deliberate choice the organisers made to invite organisations to discuss the issue of sex work, without inviting […]
October 25, 2014
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