Death to Whorephobia: A Guide to Sex Worker Affirming Care
Published in 2020, Death to Whorephobia: A Guide to Sex Worker Affirming Care is for therapists, social workers, sex educators - and anyone who is interested in being a better ally to sex workers! It contains 70+ pages of interviews with 40 sex workers from across the industry about what sex worker affirming health and mental health care means to them in their own words. It also includes the history of sex work and social work, sex worker organizing, and how policies such as SESTA/FOSTA and EARN-IT impact the every day lives and safety of sex workers.
Death to Whorephobia encourages readers to interrogate their own sex work stigma and hold nuance when working with sex workers, particularly around concepts such the spectrum of choice, circumstance, and coercion under capitalism and how it might apply to those working within the sex industry, and complicates the stereotypes of sex worker as passive victim (degradation narratives) or “Happy Whore” (empowerment narratives). Part of the Human Sexuality curriculum at University of Virginia since 2020, Death to Whorephobia is grounded in thorough research and deep love of the sex work community. 25% of each sale is donated to Lysistrata Mutual Care Collective, a NY-based sex worker mutual aid collective that serves the community across the nation.
Published in 2020, Death to Whorephobia: A Guide to Sex Worker Affirming Care is for therapists, social workers, sex educators - and anyone who is interested in being a better ally to sex workers! It contains 70+ pages of interviews with 40 sex workers from across the industry about what sex worker affirming health and mental health care means to them in their own words. It also includes the history of sex work and social work, sex worker organizing, and how policies such as SESTA/FOSTA and EARN-IT impact the every day lives and safety of sex workers.
Death to Whorephobia encourages readers to interrogate their own sex work stigma and hold nuance when working with sex workers, particularly around concepts such the spectrum of choice, circumstance, and coercion under capitalism and how it might apply to those working within the sex industry, and complicates the stereotypes of sex worker as passive victim (degradation narratives) or “Happy Whore” (empowerment narratives). Part of the Human Sexuality curriculum at University of Virginia since 2020, Death to Whorephobia is grounded in thorough research and deep love of the sex work community. 25% of each sale is donated to Lysistrata Mutual Care Collective, a NY-based sex worker mutual aid collective that serves the community across the nation.
Published in 2020, Death to Whorephobia: A Guide to Sex Worker Affirming Care is for therapists, social workers, sex educators - and anyone who is interested in being a better ally to sex workers! It contains 70+ pages of interviews with 40 sex workers from across the industry about what sex worker affirming health and mental health care means to them in their own words. It also includes the history of sex work and social work, sex worker organizing, and how policies such as SESTA/FOSTA and EARN-IT impact the every day lives and safety of sex workers.
Death to Whorephobia encourages readers to interrogate their own sex work stigma and hold nuance when working with sex workers, particularly around concepts such the spectrum of choice, circumstance, and coercion under capitalism and how it might apply to those working within the sex industry, and complicates the stereotypes of sex worker as passive victim (degradation narratives) or “Happy Whore” (empowerment narratives). Part of the Human Sexuality curriculum at University of Virginia since 2020, Death to Whorephobia is grounded in thorough research and deep love of the sex work community. 25% of each sale is donated to Lysistrata Mutual Care Collective, a NY-based sex worker mutual aid collective that serves the community across the nation.