Quotes About Sex work

Some of them may have children in nearby schools, and grocery stores where they shop, and friends they like to be close to, and parents they need to look in on—and as a result have all kinds of reasons not to move their business. Their job, at that moment, is sex work. But they are mothers and daughters and friends and citizens first. Coupling forces us to see the stranger in her full ambiguity and complexity.

Offering sex for money is not a profession that glorifies women; it is a profession born of desperation, poverty, alienation, and loneliness.

Es necesario despenalizar el aborto, es decir, que no se castigue. Eso es diferente a legalizarlo, porque las leyes las impone el patriarcado y al legalizarlo el poder queda en manos de jueces, policías, políticos y otras estructuras masculinas. Como un paréntesis, puedo agregar que por la misma razón las trabajadoras sexuales no desean la legalización de la prostitución, sino la despenalización.

No me conviene salir de un capitalista para caer en otro. Lo que hay que hacer es una cooperativa y mandar a la madame al carajo. No ha oído hablar de eso? Váyase con cuidado, mire que si sus inquilinos le forman una cooperativa en el campo, usted se jodió. Lo que yo quiero es una cooperativa de putas. Pueden ser putas y maricones, para darle más amplitud al negocio. Nosotros ponemos todo, el capital y el trabajo. Para qué queremos un patrón?

The prostitute is the only honest woman left in America.

It is a silly question to ask a prostitute why she does it.. These are the highest-paid professional women in America.

Numbers are difficult to calculate in part because sex workers can't be divided neatly into categories of those working voluntarily and those working involuntarily. Some commentators look at prostitutes and see only sex slaves; others see only entrepreneurs. But in reality there are some in each category and many other women who inhabit a gray zone between freedom and slavery.

The left often refers nonjudgmentally to "sex workers" and tends to be tolerant of transactions among consenting adults. The right, joined by some feminists, refers to "prostitutes" or "prostituted women" and argues that prostitution is inherently demeaning and offensive. The result of this bickering is a lack of cooperation in combatting what everybody believes is abhorrent: forced prostitution and child prostitution.