This was a specific and focused effort on getting white women out of brothels, and because of this, we still see racial divisions along the prostituted class today. Prostitution is a continuation of chattel slavery, it is the white man ensuring that Black Women remain poor, remain sexually available, remain for sale.

Language reveals meaning, and our language around sex is clear. “That’s fucked,” “get fucked,” “I’m so fucked,” and more. Getting “fucked,” or receiving is understood as degrading, debasing, humiliating, something to be avoided. He expands on the notion of hazing, that the man who does the fucking is not engaging in sex, but rather punishment. This... See more

Often, pro sex work individuals will ask if the prostituted woman enjoys her work. Andrea Dworkin defines this stereotype as the chattel whore: a woman predisposed to sexual slavery, a woman who enjoys sexual service, a woman born to be a cunt. We do not ask this of other forms of work, however. Why? Because we understand that under capitalism,... See more

This is the failure of reformism. Reformism is an insidious poison. It trains the oppressed to celebrate the leg room in their prison cell. We are taught that the few women who can reach high levels of success are enough to ignore the millions of women and marginalized genders suffering. We are taught that success makes up for oppression, and that... See more