EducatedHarlots :
I want to preface with I’m not trying to debate just want to offer some further information/sources + context if you happen to see this. ☺️I don’t know if you saw my video response to your earlier post (it’s on my other page @historicalharlot) but I did make one, I think it’s just worth considering that different SW’s have different experiences and communication styles and different triggers, often those who speak the most passionately are those speaking from the most precarious positions - and while it isn’t always necessarily easy to hear it’s important for those people to have an unfiltered voice, if you have watched my response you’ll note that I speak much more from fact than personal experience, that’s because my personal experience is much less affected than my fellow workers due to my relative security (even though I am still a survival worker now - because for example I’m uni educated, housed, a white British UK citizen), I don’t experience the same rates of violence as workers on the street, or trans workers, or migrant workers, so I am able to speak from a place of much less emotion and speak to the experiences of others before my own, for people to whom these experiences of police violence, assault, etc are deeply personal it can be incredibly hard to talk about and should always be encouraged even when it’s not pretty. I think stepping away from online debates and focusing on in person community work is the best thing any ally can do to support SW’s and TV’s, so I applaud that. But I do hope stepping away from online debates/public speaking doesn’t mean stepping away from learning more, and maybe once you have done more research you’ll have a passion to speak on it again, who knows, but my comment is getting pretty long already and I have a huge list of book and documentary recommendations - starting with Not Your Rescue Project and To Live Freely in This World , a website in progress (essentially a research archive, I’ll link it at the bottom), and a YouTube channel where I find and post archival footage of SW activism || LINK: https://app.notion.com/p/Sex-Work-Policy-Myths-and-Evidence-1f0f11f64ac380de9957d3eebfd99706?source=copy_link
2026-07-14 21:01:37