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Life after violence and exploitation - The dark side of sex work | #DW Documentary
Apr 13, 2025 #documentary #dwdocumentary #dwdocs #SexWork
In 2002, a law was passed in Germany to legalize sex work as a service. Vivien worked as an escort and dominatrix for four years. Christina was forced into sex work by her drug-addicted mother.
The change in the law regarding sex work presupposes that people offer sexual services voluntarily and that they are of legal age. However, the reality is often different.
youtube.com/watch?v=4lyONyEaU5

ICYMI Belgium listened to sex workers' needs and decriminalised sex work! Criminalisation of sex work creates vulnerability and increases violence.

These laws were brought in while increasing sentences for rape and centring consent within the law.

bbc.com/news/articles/c5ygn31y

Portrait of Mel, who is looking at the camera with a serious expression on her face. She has long, blonde, wavy hair and is wearing a red, v-necked dress which is patent red in colour. She stands in front of a mirror, with a chain hanging from the ceiling and neon lights also in shot.
www.bbc.comBelgium's sex workers get maternity leave and pensions under world-first lawThey will be entitled to official employment contracts, health insurance and sick days.

Here's a review, a literary piece on #Anora written by a sex worker. It confirms my suspicions, but it also is a great text. So make sure you read it.
"Romance Labor: on Sean Baker’s Anora"

"Whatever satisfaction I could have derived from the representation of sex workers in film is suffocated by the condescension of liberal representation politics wherein marginalized people are depicted as most authentic in states of suffering."

#SexWork #MustRead #oscars
angelfoodmag.com/romance-labor

angelfoodmag.comRomance Labor — Angel Foodcargo.site

Today in Labor History March 3, 1903: U.S. Congress passed the Immigration Act of 1903, also called the Anarchist Exclusion Act, which bolstered previous immigration law, while adding four new classes of banned people: anarchists, people with epilepsy, beggars, and importers of prostitutes. Congress first discussed banning anarchists from entering the U.S. in 1889, in the wake of the Haymarket affair, when 8 innocent anarchists were framed for a bombing at a public demonstration in support of the eight-hour workday. Then, in 1901, Leon F. Czolgosz, a self-proclaimed anarchist, assassinated President William McKinley. The police responded by arresting numerous anarchists who had no connection whatsoever to the assassination, including Emma Goldman. The new immigration law had minimal effect. Over the next 11 years, only 11 anarchists were denied entry into the U.S., and four were expelled, under the law, including British anarchist John Turner.

Interesting story in the local paper from reporter Susan Du.

A sidebar of sorts, I suppose, to the "Anora" Academy Award story? Or vice versa?

Anyway, UNION.

'The Stripper Guild was created by the Sex Workers Organizing Project (SWOP) of Minneapolis, which received a $258,000 Bush Foundation grant in 2022 to start building a labor organization for strippers.' …

'Workers Confluence organizing director Casey Hudek said sex workers face great barriers to collective advocacy in a deeply exploited sector without the protections that come with being formal employees. But “there’s dignity in all work and all workers deserve a seat at the table,” he said.'
startribune.com/new-minneapoli

www.startribune.com · New Minneapolis Stripper Guild is building solidarity among downtown dancersThe workers of downtown Minneapolis' strip clubs are organizing and exploring health insurance options.
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❌ We warned this would happen. The 2017 laws made us less safe, pushed us into isolation, & gave more power to violent men. The Nordic model kills. It killed Geila Ibram. How many more must suffer before sx workers are heard?

✊ Decriminalisation is the only way to protect sex workers. We deserve safety, dignity & rights—just like everyone else. This Valentine’s, don’t just say you care about marginalised people—show it.

I am disgruntled.

Last few days, it has become trendy on American TikTok to show opposition to the rise of fascism in America by using a short musical phrase in German language that I assume is or was a stadium chant. We were told it means "every Nazi is a son of a bitch" but the operative word is "hurensohn" or whore's son.

Awesome. Great. Way to practice intersectionality! Show your distaste for nazis by shitting on sex workers! Hoorah!

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