Lover

I have to get something off my breasts, er… my chest. At the risk of alienating members of the sex-positive feminist movement (which I have no desire to do), I have to admit that although I am a sex worker rights activist, and moreover, a former sex worker myself, I have never enjoyed sex work. [...]

Working girls, call girls, vice girls, dancing girls, nude girls, party girls, show girls, red light girls, street girls, brothel girls, good time girls, high track girls, topless girls, XXX girls… female sex workers are eternally referred to as, “girls”. This is something that has always gotten me all hot and bothered – and not [...]

In conversations about how best to advance the rights and well-being of people working in prostitution – conversations made more frequent of late due to relevant cases in both Ontario and BC courts – the solution that many suggest is that of legalizing prostitution.  Those willing to engage in such dialogues usually have the best [...]

With newspaper headlines screaming “HOOKER LAW APPEAL SET FOR MONDAY” “CRACKING WHIP ON PROSTITUTION” and “SEX TRADE ON TRIAL”, news outlets the world over are engaging Canadians in hot and sweaty debates over everything from morality, feminism, public health, child exploitation and human trafficking, to which model of prostitution law reform Canada should take.  Public [...]

Traditionally, stripping has been viewed by the feminist movement (most notably second-wave feminists) as a profession that is demeaning to women.  This faction suggests that stripping reinforces patriarchal beauty standards and the commoditization of women’s bodies as sexual objects (Dines et al, 1997; MacKinnon, 2006; & Stark et al 2004).  Some feminists have stated that [...]