Friday, May 9, 2008 | 7:52 pm
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“I think there’s a big misconception that working in porn is somehow easier than doing other kinds of work. I think that there is a mythology that says that porn performers ‘just have sex’…”
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“The horrors that sex work supposedly does to one’s soul did not happen to me with my sex work. It’s happening now by the mainstream media. I’m being treated in ways I would never tolerate from a client.”
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“If you treat all people in sex work as if they have no agency, you become no different than traffickers, making choices for the people in sex work. You, in effect, take away any agency that they have.”
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“…I examine the state of sex work in this light from the point of view of new media. Which is way, way different that what we’re being fed in mainstream media. I’m also getting some very weird emails about it, some of which are threatening in tone.”
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Via Joseph.
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“Feminist ideology that is not explicitly abolitionist is often silent, participating in the perpetuation of the whore stigma and its implications, by not supporting sex worker rights through omission and inaction.” HELLO, big femist blogs!
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