Last week, federal agents arrested the founder and five staffers of male escort site Rentboy.com. Two days later, GQ published "The Real Life of a Sugar Daddy," a feature on SeekingArrangement.com's buyers and sellers of sex. Here, Charlotte Shane, who's been a sex worker for 11 years and a writer under this name for five, weighs in on the public allocation of stigma when it comes to sex work—where it lands, and why. Advertisement 1. The only time what sex workers say is relevant to a public audience is when it can be used against us or when it can be used to entertain. Often those times coincide. 2 . Before I was a sex worker, I was a fresh feminist who didn't like sex work. Or rather, I thought I didn't like sex work—I don't think I was entirely clear on what sexual labor could entail. But thanks to second-wavers like Andrea Dworkin, Catharine MacKinnon, and Susan Brownmiller, I knew pornography was bad; adult male desire was rapacious and sadistic; patriarchy incentivized women to either accommodate degrading lust or else be forced to. I knew sexual desirability, our only true currency, was a system rigged so no woman could… Read full this story
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