This is a terrible article. > One measure of this success is the media’s increasing insistence on referring to people used in prostitution and pornography as “

This is a terrible article. > One measure of this success is the media’s increasing insistence on referring to people used in prostitution and pornography as “sex workers.” What is being done to them is neither sex, in the sense of intimacy and mutuality, nor work, in the sense of productivity and dignity. Survivors of prostitution consider it “serial rape,” so they regard the term “sex work” as gaslighting. Allegedly, sex workers are called "sex workers" because "the media" insists upon it. In point of fact, sex workers have insisted on it, because when they get reframed as victims, it tends to lead to a lot of laws that criminalize their jobs, and that is very bad for sex workers [1]. The author makes a bizarre generalization that all "survivors" of sex work think sex work is basically "serial rape." To construct this, she cites two former sex workers, which is hardly any sort of consensus. Perhaps if she had consulted the Global Network of Sex Work Projects [2], a large worldwide network of dozens of sex-worker-run, pro-sex-work nonprofits, she would have formed a different impression of the consensus in the industry. Sex work can be a good job. That's why so many people flocked to OnlyFans. It's really condescending and shitty to dismiss sex workers as helpless victims and all their advocacy as "gaslighting." [1]: https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/08/07/why-sex-work-should-be-decriminalized https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/08/07/why-sex-work-should-be-d... [2]: https://www.nswp.org/who-we-are https://www.nswp.org/who-we-are