Dr Hilary Caldwell’s new book Slutdom looks at how women navigate sex and shame, and at all ages. She shares what she’s learned as both a sex worker and as an academic.
Dr Hilary Caldwell’s new book Slutdom looks at how women navigate sex and shame, and at all ages. She shares what she’s learned as both a sex worker and as an academic.
I love to see anything pushing toward destroying this stigma. Sex is natural and wonderful, and sex workers are workers providing a valuable service.
Valuable is not the same as ethical
There’s nothing unethical about a sapient, consenting adult providing sexual services for money for/with another sapient, consenting adult.
I strongly disagree. Prostitution tends to come along with drug use, violence, abuse and human trafficking. It tends to be a act of desperation. I heard a story where a young girl was selling herself for around 7 USD because she was desperate for heroin.
But these aren’t issues with the profession, these issues stem from a wide range of factors including but not limited to poor support for- and an ever present societal stigma toward- victims of drug addiction, victims of abuse, and sex workers in general.
(and also, sex work doesn’t just mean escorting services - selling pictures of your feet online is sex work)