You mustn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex. — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Why do prostitutes when they get straight always try and get so prim? It's like long-repressed librarian-ambitions come flooding out.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Frankly, sex work and stripping is very good if you have radical politics. You can go to meetings all night long. — Amber Hollibaugh Copy Share Image
In literature only trouble is interesting. It takes trouble to turn the great themes of life into a story: birth, love, sex,… — Janet Burroway Copy Share Image
I don't really think myself that sex work is necessarily more demeaning than other kinds of demeaning work. — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
“Every time a trick hangs up on me, I gain a renewed faith in humanity—someone really cares!” — Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore Copy Share Image
I don't like people telling other people what to do. Sex work for a lot of women is really important, especially in… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
Women in the past thought all they had to do was see if he comes home late, or smells like cigarettes. But… — Melissa Gira Grant Copy Share Image
I would never want to take away the option of sex work from someone, but I would want to create more options… — Emily Symons Copy Share Image
I don't know why it's anyone's business! People do what they need to do. I did it, and it was nowhere near… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
Different types of sex work are differently supportive. If I were working in a strip club, I would be competing with my… — Molly Crabapple Copy Share Image
“Sex work is legal in fifty nations, including Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Macau, the Netherlands, Austria, New Zealand, Israel, Germany, France, and England;… — Melinda Chateauvert Copy Share Image
Here's how men think. Sex, work - and those are reversible, depending on age - sex, work, food, sports and lastly, begrudgingly,… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
“…The shocking thing about any stripper gathering, I discovered, was that you have never heard women talk so fast and so explicitly… — Susie Bright Copy Share Image
At a glance, addiction, sex work, mad passion, and all forms of extreme behavior might look like pushing or trying to obliterate… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
“Feminists have accepted that choice is possible when it comes to a different, difficult subject: abortion. The feminist position (and I agree… — Chester Brown Copy Share Image
“Many people believe trans women choose to engage in the sex trade rather than get a real job. That belief is misguided… — Janet Mock Copy Share Image
I advocate for people who believe sex work is work. But women have so many avenues open. In the same way, a… — Laxmi Narayan Tripathi Copy Share Image
The biggest difference in what's going on in New Zealand versus the rest of the world, aside from the decriminalization of sex… — Melissa Gira Grant Copy Share Image
It makes me so angry when people say, "We never hear from people who are happy doing sex work." Well, that's because… — Melissa Gira Grant Copy Share Image
“How is it that we can punish women who are paid by politicians yet allow freedom and forgiveness to the politicians who… — Valerie Baber Copy Share Image
“Maybe he'd never come across anybody as well versed at objectifying body parts as I was. In my defense, this was an… — Aiden Shaw Copy Share Image
“You look at me and judge me. And I just want to ask, for what? I am in full control. No one… — Panashe Chigumadzi Copy Share Image
“I was bleeding but hoped he wouldn’t notice. I do this sometimes; a game I personally call, I have my period, let’s… — Kelley Kenney Copy Share Image
“watch myself in the mirrors at work constantly. It makes it more interesting. I used to do this ages ago out of… — Kelley Kenney Copy Share Image
“She had developed a number of habits in her younger years, none of which carried with them a bright future, and the… — Rachel Autumn Deering Copy Share Image
Sex work may be an illegal thing, but it's far from being a bad thing. Quite a few of us on the… — Kate Bornstein Copy Share Image
“If a girl wants to sell her body, so be it. None of my business. Don't athletes sell their bodies, too? People… — Oliver Markus Malloy Copy Share Image
“A sex worker deserves a billion times more respect, than the mystical fraudsters of the society, such as astrologers, psychics and tarot… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Sex work is a completely unregulated industry and to make the affront even worse, the product and the labourers are the same… — David Simon Copy Share Image
Once when I told sex workers about my own sex work, it ended up building inappropriate trust with some people. But there… — Melissa Gira Grant Copy Share Image
“The Ritz Hotel was grand, sophisticated, and established, unlike me. The only thing we had in common was façade. Mine may not… — Aiden Shaw Copy Share Image
“I saw a documentary about prostitution in Holland a few years ago, that said over there health insurance actually pays for monthly… — Oliver Markus Malloy Copy Share Image
Besides the money aspect, I guess I was curious about sex work. In the way that most people are, but also because… — Marie Calloway Copy Share Image
“Gay rights aren't predicated on being born gay or having the right gene. Gay rights are predicated on having choice and consent.… — Chester Brown Copy Share Image
“When I was thinking about How Poetry Saved My Life entering the “big literary world” I more so viewed it as sub… — Amber Dawn Copy Share Image
I think sex work gets over-mystified and overcomplicated because it's about sexuality, and women's sexuality in general. What strikes me when I… — Melissa Gira Grant Copy Share Image
“Maybe he'd never come acrross anybody as well versed at objectifying body parts as I was. In my defense, this was an… — Aiden Shaw Copy Share Image
Early in my career as a domme, I both admired and feared becoming one of those career dommes. I saw, in myself,… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
“In Germany, people will agree in theory that prostitution should be legal, but they usually won't admit that they themselves have ever… — Oliver Markus Malloy Copy Share Image
