Interesting Shares

1032 readers

14 users here now

Share interesting articles, projects, research, pictures, or videos.

Please include a prefix in your title!

Prefixes for posts

Certain clients offer filters to make prefixes searchable. Photon (m.lemmy.zip) used for hyperlinks below:

Icon attribution

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

BrikoX@lemmy.zip

‘Guess what? Mummy is a sex worker’: the sexologist who wants to build a ‘slutopia’ for women (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 4 months ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/interestingshare@lemmy.zip

27 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 2 points 4 months ago

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)