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Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work by Melissa Gira Grant

1 review

nicnevin's review

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

A brief treatise on the challenges faced by sex workers and the groups and institutions that are at the root of the issue. It highlights how sex worker exclusionary feminism fails the women it proclaims to protect and is a searing indicment of how violence against sex workers across the globe are tied intrinsically to police brutality and the violence of capitalism itself, that the supposed routes out of sex work given by NGOs and aid agencies can be worse than what they supposedly aim to protect them from. 

A good introduction to leftists looking to learn about sex worker rights. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Trafficking, Transphobia, and Violence