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Life After Sex Work: My Nudes Are Everywhere. Now What?
“The industry fundamentally changed the way I valued myself. It made me beholden to income in ways non-sexual work didn’t. I, and society, attached a monetary value to my appearance.”
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Blackness In Porn is Fetishized and Commodified. Can Performers Like Myself Change That?
“Race and sex in American society have shaped a worldview that extended to our industry. We are exoticized, vilified, underpaid, and partitioned as others in an already sexualized and charged circumstance, our bodies prized for their beauty and power yet divorced from our humanity.”
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It’s All For Show: Debunking Misconceptions About Sex Work, Money, and Labor
“The reality is that sex work, like many other forms of self-employment, is often a matter of feast or famine.”
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Sex Work, Stigma, and Shame: Dating As A Dominatrix
“I’ve had other potential partners find out that I’m a sex worker… and then that’s all they see when they look at me. They begin to view me as a sex machine, something they can cum in and go as they please.”
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Lights! Camera! Wet Wipes! Can Intimacy Coordinators Make Porn Sets Safer?
“Intimacy coordinators can ensure sets are broadly safer – including STI testing and a consent and boundaries list.”
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Sex Work Damaged My Relationship With Myself. Burlesque is Helping Me Heal
“Perhaps the real reason I didn’t put more effort into my stage appearance was that effort would have made it real and intentional, effort would have made me a professional, and not just some co-ed who fell into it.”
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Content Leaks Are More Than Revenue Loss For Sex Workers —It’s a Violation of Consent
“Paywalling one’s content is not just a way to earn income for many adult workers, but also forms a privacy buffer between themselves and the rest of the world.”
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Looks Good For Her Age: Aging In (and Out) Of Sex Work
“Being okay with that means moving into a different phase in our life. We no longer have to pick out our outfits to go grocery shopping. We’re no longer on display. It’s freeing, a sheer relief to blend in after spending so many years knowing we didn’t.”
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I Thought Sex Work Was Anti-Feminist. Then, I Became A Stripper
“It was great to have cash in hand, but challenging to choose between hiding my job or being judged for being open about it.”
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Asian Men Are Marginalized In Porn. Gay Male Performers Are Changing the Narrative
“I find it to be very problematic in that these people have these preconceived notions of how Asian men will act, be it submissive, bottoms, very demure,” says Cody Seiya.
