Melissa Gira Grant
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Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work
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2014
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We Too: Essays on Sex Work and Survival
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2021
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Coming and Crying
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2010
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Better Than IRL: True Stories About Finding Your People on the Untamed Internet
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2020
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Best Sex Writing 2013: The State of Today's Sexual Culture
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2013
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Girl Crush: Women's Erotic Fantasies
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2010
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Take This Book: A History of the People's Library at Occupy Wall Street
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2011
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For Love or Money
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“People who are profiled by cops as sex workers include, in disproportionate numbers, trans women, women of color, and queer and gender nonconforming youth. This isn't about policing sex. It's about profiling and policing people whose sexuality and gender are considered suspect.”
― Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work
― Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work
“The presence of money does not remove one's ability to consent. Consent, in and out of sex work, is not just given but constructed, and from multiple factors: setting, time, emotional state, trust, and desire. Desire is contingent on all of these. Consent and desire aren't states frozen in our bodies, tapped into and felt or offered. They are formed.”
― Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work
― Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work
“If the sex workers standing in the doorways in Phnom Penh's red-light district looked out on the street with fear, it could be just as likely from the prospect of rescue as due to any customer.”
― Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work
― Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work
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