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For anyone interested in the reality of surrogacy: It has incredibly strong parallels to prostitution. This book is a fantastic introduction to prostitution & surrogacy, and how both are built on the backs of overwhelmingly poor women, who risk their health in the process to make (usually complete s...

I did some research into Japanese folklore regarding red light districts. Sharing here in case its of interest to anyone: https://ellyarrow.wordpress.com/2020/01 ... -folklore/

I'm not so sure actually. Because most of what we see that zombie woman do is actually fight back and then when she swallows pills and puts on make up she is back to normal. As a zombie she is more free and wild than as a human. So I think we have to keep reading to figure this one out.

The way I understand it, it's definetly 1) men wearing high heels and lipstick only goes so far as a political act (not terribly far, though they certainly should be able to wear it without judgement or being attacked) and 2) its an active distraction tactic, when a man changes his asthetic to appea...

So curious where this will go!! I like the story and the commentary, too!! Political, but also funny, also wholesome.

The woman with the longer hair was exploited in pornography. I wouldn't call her a "sex worker", because she was pushed in by an abusive boyfriend pimp and by poverty. We don't know the new woman's exact circumstances, so I would wait to label her. I don't wanna prescribe your language, but I wouldn...

Women helping women <3
Exited women are the most powerful force for change. I'm so massively proud of them.

woah! I did not know that. Here is just one example: Sandra Norak is a German prostitution survivor. At the very beginning of the video she shows a photo of the tattoo her pimp made her get. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDAjjnsPFBM There are no English subs and don't think I can add any (not ope...

Interesting is that the girl has piercings above her eye. To my knowledge, in the prostitution industry (please forgive my wording, english is not my mother tongue) placing piercings and tattoos on prostitues is some kind of "ownership sign" of pimps. Something completely inhuman. That's a stretch....

small point of contention with the pimp hat stories: while I understand they're meant to represent the patriarchy as a whole, the imagery of the (male) hat going wooo~ beam at women and them instantly falling in line sits poorly with me. women don't end up in sex work because they're told it's okay...

That's my automatic face when somebody mentions johns or a celebrity who I know is a john. Stuck in perpetual disgust.

There's sort of a gross intersection of things with the whole "sex work is work" thing. Because it is work, in the sense that it's a form of labor. In an ideal world, sex work would just be a job as shitty as any other customer service position, the performance of a particular skill in exchange for...

As a former erotic dancer can I thumbs up this? A sex worker might have [or sadly she made have not] chose to go into the life but, she didn't choose to be dehumanized. When she wants out because of it, men [and even some women] flip their shit and call SWERF. She's suppose to love her job, love he...

SWERF is a dismissive term literally thrown at women in and exited from prostitution, if they criticize the industry. I know several survivors of prostitution who at risk to their own safety and mental health have been fighting for abolition and exit services and they get called "SWERFs". That label...

Modern pimps literally often look like this now: https://www.express.de/news/panorama/die-neue-generation-freier--sie-sind-jung--sie-haben-geld-und-sie-zahlen-gerne-fuer-sex-31090160 The man in the photo is a brothel owner aka pimp who wants to rebrand paying for sex as something modern and edgy. Bu...