Whereas sex-worker liberation theorists and feminist organizers in the sex industry have always built platforms from the “workers’ inquiry” up (a perspective some call “sex workers against work”69), Jeffreys, on the contrary, suggests sex workers have nothing to offer feminism. “Studying prostitutes to explain prostitution,” she writes, “is as useful as examining the motives of factory workers to explain the existence of capitalism.”70 Quite useful, then?!
