Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

Hure spielen: Die Arbeit der Sexarbeit by Melissa Gira Grant

2 reviews

casually_literate's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

Grant's writing is captivating, witty, and intentional. This book is a quick read but it'll have you reeling. If this is a new topic you may need to take a break after a chapter or two to digest the content. There's a lot of incredibly important and insightful information in this book.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Classism, Homophobia, Trafficking, Transphobia, Misogyny, Police brutality, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Sexual content, and Violence

nicnevin's review against another edition

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