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SWP is rocking the RED PUMP for National Women and Girls HIV Awareness Day, March 10th, 2012!
Because we blush and stammer sometimes when you send us really NICE messages, and are a little hesitant to publish them. But here’s the proof that lots of people send us lots of nice things:
“This blog has opened my eyes a lot about the sex working industry. Keep up the good work!”
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“I used to be a sex worker myself and I feel no shame in that part of my past. I simply adore your blog, keep up the positive message that we are not bad people. <3”
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Love this blog. ♥
“Out of everyone I know, I’m the only person who’s pro sexwork. So, bravo to this blog. I love it.”
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“I know you get lots of assholes/trolls and lots of aspiring sex workers asking for help in becoming your competition, but I just want you to know that there are tons of us who aren’t sex workers or your clients who strongly respect what you do. I’m sorry so many people end up vilifying you. I honestly think sex work is actually really important for society. Not to mention beautiful. Have a great day!”
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“y’all are badass.”
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You guys are pretty badass, too.
Love,
SWP
Remember, you can email us your answers or put them in ask! We’ll publish all of them at once.
Are you the only sex worker in your family? Are you a 1st, 2nd, or even 3rd generation sex worker? How do you feel about generational sex workers?
Our email is sexworkerproblems at gmail dot com, and our ask is on the sidebar (or sexworkerproblems dot tumblr dot com forward slash ask).
SWP
It’s really easy! Just write your post, between 300 and 1000 words (we’re firm on that 1000 mark) and email it to SWP with “GUEST POST - [title of your post” in the subject line.
Please include any information and credits you would like us to include at the bottom of your post (including links if you’d like) along with your post.
We will edit for spelling ONLY. What you send is what we will post - provided it falls within our guidelines regarding subject matter.
You can email submissions to sexworkerproblesm at gmail dot com.
Thank you!
SWP
Generally speaking, if you’re getting paid to get someone else hot and bothered, you’re doing some kind of sex work. Sex workers of all kinds, even if they aren’t actually having sex with anyone, have many of the same lifestyle pros and cons, as well as face the same “whore” stigma. More specific job titles can include:
- prostitute (streetwalkers, rent boys, hookers, escorts, call girls, and courtesans alike)
- stripper
- porn performer
- webcam model
- professional dominant (offline and on)
- professional submissive
- phone sex operator
- “happy ending” massage parlour workers
- peep show performers
Sex workers are of every gender and no gender. Sex workers are young, old, and middle aged. Sex workers are rich, poor, or in the middle—hopefully comfortable. Sex workers come in every size and color, with any kind of body you can imagine. We run the gamut from glam to dowdy.
You can’t tell a whore by looking.
This is not meant to be a complete list and obviously there are some practises that fall into a grey area, like sugar baby/daddy(or mommy) relationships. As some commenters have pointed out, a lot of sex work is opportunistic, and thus many more people will trade sex for compensation, in practice, than will ever think of themselves as “sex workers”.
If there’s anything we’ve left out, send us an ask or an email!
Updated!
We tried posting a list of SW blogs and bloggers that we liked, but unfortunately a lot of those individuals received a good deal of harassment after the list was posted. It was never our intention to expose our friends and followers to that kind of negative attention, and we don’t want to do it again.
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We do sometimes reblog posts from SW blogs we think are pretty rad, so you can use that as a loose guide to “blogs SWP likes.”
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You may have noted we’re being super scrupulously anonymous these days, even for asks that aren’t sent anon. In our top-secret meeting at SWP’s luxury headquarters, we decided that the more anon we could be, the safer we’d all feel… and the safer we’d feel bringing crisis situations that our colleagues experience to your attention without exposing anyone who’s already in a bad spot to more abuse.
So that’s what that’s about. Please do keep sending us your things and your thoughts, and we’ll be posting them anon :)
Generally speaking, if you’re getting paid to get someone else hot and bothered, you’re doing some kind of sex work. Sex workers of all kinds, even if they aren’t actually having sex with anyone, have many of the same lifestyle pros and cons, as well as face the same “whore” stigma. More specific job titles can include:
- prostitute (streetwalkers, rent boys, hookers, escorts, call girls, and courtesans alike)
- stripper
- porn performer
- webcam model
- professional dominant (offline and on)
- professional submissive
- phone sex operator
- “happy ending” massage parlour workers
- peep show performers
Sex workers are of every gender and no gender. Sex workers are young, old, and middle aged. Sex workers are rich, poor, or in the middle—hopefully comfortable. Sex workers come in every size and color, with any kind of body you can imagine. We run the gamut from glam to dowdy.
You can’t tell a whore by looking.
This is not meant to be a complete list and obviously there are some practises that fall into a grey area, like sugar baby/daddy(or mommy) relationships. As some commenters have pointed out, a lot of sex work is opportunistic, and thus many more people will trade sex for compensation, in practice, than will ever think of themselves as “sex workers”.
If there’s anything we’ve left out, send us an ask or an email!
We are not, in any way, accepting of solicitations, communications regarding, or payments for prostitution, escorting, modeling, acting services, or any other branch or arm of sex work.
We are here as a community only, with unpaid moderators and administrators here to keep communication lines open for sex workers around the world to speak with each other and to inform non-sex workers regarding social aspects of our lifestyle.
We will not accept or respond to requests for services, work, or offers of employment - regardless of the type of employment.
Please do yourselves and us a favor: read this carefully and understand it to the best of your ability.
And for those few of you who, instead of donating to the sister in need of help last week, sent us emails saying “I don’t want to donate but,” and proceeded to ask us for services in exchange for payments, please understand exactly how low our collective regard for you is - that in a time of need for a human being, you decided to capitalize on that need and attempted to take advantage of her (and us, by proxy).
Please also, SWP readers and family of sex workers, be aware that in many countries around the world, solicitation and prostitution are still illegal. Communications and emails across state, county, territory, and country lines asking us for services (or us being seen as soliciting services) can be dangerous for all of us. The very last thing we want is to have to close SWP down over misunderstandings and a few bad eggs.
Best, SW1
Please be on the lookout for it.
Thank you, SW1
