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October 9, 2013

"First things first: 9 times out of 10, when you approach a sex worker organization with the intent..."

First things first: 9 times out of 10, when you approach a sex worker organization with the intent of studying them, you are not helping them. You are helping yourself. The completion of your research, alone, is not “helping” sex workers.



Come September, sex worker organizations are flooded with requests for interviews, observations, ride-alongs, quotations, and various other trips by academics and students to the Sex Worker Zoo. Sex worker organizations are universally understaffed and underfunded, and they have shit to do, guys. They exist to serve sex workers, not to serve you.



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Just Say No: Why You Shouldn’t Study Sex Work in School | autocannibal


Fuck yes a million times.

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Published on October 09, 2013 19:02