Sex worker

Sex workers have a hard time narrating their own stories and therefore expressing their agency in the matter. Street or outdoor have even less agency when it comes to being able to tell their own stories or narratives. “Who gets to speak and who is silenced, or who gets to tell the story of the sex trade, (…)” (Jeffrey 147) is a big issue when it comes to learning who has agency and who is able to act upon their agency. How does whore stigma and stigma against street or outdoor sex workers negativity impact their own agency or their view of their agency? Stigma Street/outdoor sex workers face a huge amount of stigma towards their work. Stigmatizing attitudes that paint sex workers as backward, victims, uneducated, addicted, and whores are, according to sex workers, common among the wider public as well as among police, government, and the media, and they contribute to the climate of violence and marginalization that sex workers face. (Jeffrey 37)…

the occupation of sex workers. Understanding mental health and physical health problems in sex workers can lead to a better perspective on sex workers as people. Many sex workers especially, street workers are categorized as drugies and other derogatory names however this generalization is offensive and inaccurate. Throughout these articles physical health and mental health are examined. Physical health is broken down into three categories; work setting, violence and drug abuse, and mental…

at the club, Price-Glenn explains how work roles, authority, and interactions between co-workers create gendered processes in the club: “Gendered processes are commonplace workplace activities that, in the case of The Lion’s Den, reproduced gendered inequalities by patterning men’s dominance and women’s subordination.”(49). In this club, jobs structure themselves around the mainstream gender roles that society ingrains within itself. Yet, the importance of stereotypical ideas of sex workers…

of data and reporting, the police ignored the disappearances based on social constructions – the representing race and profession. Aboriginal sex workers were discriminated by police agencies and their reports were ignored prior to a dramatic increase of disappearances. But now we must question this: what if the missing sex workers were white? How would their disappearances be represented in the media? There is a ‘racial blindness’ in the media, as the social suffering of Aboriginal sex…

his actions around protecting the wellbeing of the women who he harms. Although the underlying intention and the result are clearly damaging, the narrative is that cancerous birth control is for their own good, with the added implication that they require doctors to make decisions for them. As drug-using sex workers, the women studied in “Narratives about Necessity- Constructions of Motherhood Among Drug Using Sex Sellers in Denmark” by Jeanett Bjønness seem to reflect the “crack-whores” the…

Robert Picton (2010) was based on missing Indigenous women who were sex trade workers from Vancouver’s downtown area. The police did little to acknowledge the value of their lives just because of what they did as their job and their ethnic background. Aboriginal sex workers are depicted as silenced and racialized and are different from a respectable point of view. Jiwani and Young (as stated in Brooks & Schissel, p.129) describe Aboriginal women, who work as sex workers, as deserving of…

always let me know, however silently, that I was exactly who I was suppose to by and I will always love them for that. My siblings were always the greatest, allowing me to be their sister and not hesitating when I sat them down and asked for them to call me Janet (Mock, 2011a). Even with my family, growing up as a trans is always a struggle. The vision I had of myself was not the way I was perceived by others. Constantly, I struggled to understand why I wasn’t like other girls (Mock, 2011b).…

Majic, S. (2014). Beyond "Victim-Criminals": Sex Workers, Nonprofit Organizations, and Gender Ideologies. Gender & Society, 28(3), 463-485. In this article, the role of the nonprofit to challenge gender ideologies is explored. The article concludes that the ability of the nonprofit to engender change is limited to the institutions that the nonprofit is closest to. This is something to keep in mind when I am considering future sources of funding and which organizations to align with my…

Being sexually abused as a child can pave the way for victims to enter prostitution. With immense vulnerabilities, child sex workers can endanger themselves to physical, verbal violence and sexual assaults from pimps or customers. Furthermore, they are usually defenseless in negotiating the use of condom during intercourses (Willis and Levy 2002). Thus, not only are child sex workers at risk for infectious transmittable diseases such as STD, HIV, uterine infection but also is their community.…

state that allows the solicitation of sex for money. However, in the nineteenth century there were no laws against exchanging sex for profit (Grant). Prostitution laws have only been around for 100 years. Several of the women who first settled into the New World sold their bodies as a source of income. In order to regulate and contain prostitution in the colonies, Red-Light Districts were brought to life. Red-Light Districts were locations in cities “where commercial sex” was “isolated or…