Sex Workers Declare They're #NotYourRescueProject with New Twitter Campaign "When you treat the profession as degrading, you degrade those in it." By Kate Hakala Dr. Laura Agustín, The Naked Anthropologist, blogs a lot about misconceptions about what she calls "The Rescue Industry". That is, the feminists, social workers, politicians, police, and other organizations that seek to "rescue" women out of the sex worker profession. One of her largest arguments is that the Rescue Industry discredits, "what adult women say about their experiences of selling sex, thus disqualifying them as subjects in a discussion about their own fates." That discussion is well open today as hundreds of sex workers took to Twitter to express their thoughts about their victimization by organizations and individuals looking to help them. It all started when a sex worker, Pasta, tweeted, "I feel like [...]...
- 1/3/2014
- by Kate Hakala
- Nerve
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