Sex Work Matters

Sex Work Matters
Author: Melissa Hope Ditmore
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2013-04-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1848138407

Sex Work Matters brings together sex workers, scholars and activists to present pioneering essays on the economics and sociology of sex work. From insights by sex workers on how they handle money, intimate relationships and daily harassment by the police, to the experience of male and transgender sex work, this fascinating and original book offers new theoretical frameworks for understanding the sex industry. The result is a vital new contribution to sex-worker rights that explores the topic in new ways, especially its cultural, economic and political dimensions. Readers weary of the sensational and often salacious treatment of the sex industry in the media and literature will find Sex Work Matters refreshing.

Essential Clinical Care for Sex Workers

Essential Clinical Care for Sex Workers
Author: Theodore R. Burnes, PhD
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2023-01-24
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1623176816

An affirming and sex-positive guide to working with sex workers: uncovering clinical biases, creating safe spaces, and dismantling the whorearchy. Despite the wide range of sex work--from street-based to OnlyFans--clinicians too often focus on what they think sex workers need, instead of building trust, developing rapport, and really doing the work to understand the unique stressors that make quality mental health care essential for sex worker communities. Sex-positive therapists Theodore Burnes and Jamila Dawson break down everything that mental health providers need to know to work effectively with sex workers, while dispeling the tired, pervasive myths that continue to impact treatment today. Readers will learn about: Who sex workers are; different types of sex work; and sex workers’ specific therapy needs How outdated research methodology results in bad data and poor care The whorearchy--the sex-work hierarchy--and why we need to dismantle it How to recognize and move beyond personal biases How to provide effective, affirming, and better clinical care What words not to use--and what they reveal about the sexism, racism, misogyny, and transphobia embedded in our society (and our practices) As sex work changes and evolves, encompassing everything from brothels to cam work, clinical care needs to catch up. This book shows you how.

Revolting Prostitutes

Revolting Prostitutes
Author: Molly Smith
Publisher: Verso Books
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2018-11-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1786633604

How the law harms sex workers—and what they want instead Do you have to endorse prostitution in order to support sex worker rights? Should clients be criminalized, and can the police deliver justice? In Revolting Prostitutes, sex workers Juno Mac and Molly Smith bring a fresh perspective to questions that have long been contentious. Speaking from a growing global sex worker rights movement, and situating their argument firmly within wider questions of migration, work, feminism, and resistance to white supremacy, they make it clear that anyone committed to working towards justice and freedom should be in support of the sex worker rights movement.

Sex Workers Unite

Sex Workers Unite
Author: Melinda Chateauvert
Publisher: Beacon Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2015-03-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0807061239

A provocative history that reveals how sex workers have been at the vanguard of social justice movements for the past fifty years while building a movement of their own that challenges our ideas about labor, sexuality, feminism, and freedom Documenting five decades of sex-worker activism, Sex Workers Unite is a fresh history that places prostitutes, hustlers, escorts, call girls, strippers, and porn stars in the center of America’s major civil rights struggles. Although their presence has largely been ignored and obscured, in this provocative history Melinda Chateauvert recasts sex workers as savvy political organizers—not as helpless victims in need of rescue. Even before transgender sex worker Sylvia Rivera threw a brick and sparked the Stonewall Riot in 1969, these trailblazing activists and allies challenged criminal sex laws and “whorephobia,” and were active in struggles for gay liberation, women’s rights, reproductive justice, union organizing, and prison abolition. Although the multibillion-dollar international sex industry thrives, the United States remains one of the few industrialized nations that continues to criminalize prostitution, and these discriminatory laws put workers at risk. In response, sex workers have organized to improve their working conditions and to challenge police and structural violence. Through individual confrontations and collective campaigns, they have pushed the boundaries of conventional organizing, called for decriminalization, and have reframed sex workers’ rights as human rights. Telling stories of sex workers, from the frontlines of the 1970s sex wars to the modern-day streets of SlutWalk, Chateauvert illuminates an underrepresented movement, introducing skilled activists who have organized a global campaign for self-determination and sexual freedom that is as multifaceted as the sex industry and as diverse as human sexuality.

Prostitution, Trafficking and Traumatic Stress

Prostitution, Trafficking and Traumatic Stress
Author: Melissa Farley
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2003
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780789023797

Prostitution, Trafficking, and Traumatic Stress documents the violence that runs like a constant thread throughout all types of prostitution, including escort, brothel, trafficking, strip club, and street prostitution. The book presents clinical examples, analysis, and original research, counteracting common myths about the harmlessness of prostitution. It explores the connections between prostitution, incest, sexual harassment, rape, and battering; looks at peer support programs for women escaping prostitution; examines clinical symptoms common among prostitutes; and much more.

The Tax Domme's Guide for Sex Workers and All Other Business People

The Tax Domme's Guide for Sex Workers and All Other Business People
Author: Mistress Lori St. Kitts
Publisher: Booksurge Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013-02-13
Genre:
ISBN: 9781439251065

Essential tax information for the small business owner in every industry that will bring their tax liability to its knees. Written in language that everyone can understand, this well-rounded guide offers essential business basics and tax information that all small business owners need to know to set up, maintain and grow a successful business. Some of the hot topics discussed are: Office & file organization Record, file and tax return recovery W-2, 1099-Misc and the new 1099-K Business expenses Incorporation, Partnership and LLC basics Health and retirement benefits for the self-employed Talking to the IRS and responding to notices What to expect in an audit In an honest and frank discussion about sex work, business and taxes, Tax Domme also addresses those issues specific to people working in the Adult Industry such as: How any type of sex worker can prepare and file their tax return legally Handling income from various sex work properly Deductions specific to the different types of sex work demystified This guide was inspired by questions from business owners, client tax issues encountered and discussions with colleagues and the IRS.

Sexual Medicine in Clinical Practice

Sexual Medicine in Clinical Practice
Author: Klaus M. Beier
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 155
Release: 2012-11-05
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1461444217

Call it a remnant of our Victorian past, but sexual concerns lag behind other aspects of health, both in the training of physicians and therapists and in the way they impart this knowledge to clients. But as sexuality gains recognition as crucial to one’s quality of life, evidence-based methods of understanding and discussing sex are imperative—and not only in treating pathology. Sexual Medicine in Clinical Practice provides framework, rationale, and strategies for both approaching sexual problems and addressing patients’ questions about sexual health, behavior, and relationships. Analyzing sexuality along three dimensions—attachment, reproduction, and desire—this concise manual offers a biopsychosocial lifespan model readily translatable into clinical work. This “syndyastic” framework integrates attachment and relational theory to reinforce the bond between intimacy and connectedness, and models nonjudgmental approaches to disorders of sexual function, maturity, preference, and behavior. The authors’ salutogenic rather than pathogenic focus lets clients become major players in their own healing, and the therapist or doctor serve as expert and guide. Among the topics covered: The communicative function of sexuality. The spectrum of sexual disorders. Principles of diagnostics in sexual medicine. Disease-centered versus client-centered aspects of sexual therapy. Therapeutic approaches for sexual traumatization. New challenges, including preventing child sexual abuse and online sex crime. Plus case studies, interdisciplinary references, and ethical issues. A timely, perspective- and practice-altering volume, Sexual Medicine in Clinical Practice is essential reading for family and primary care physicians, family and sex therapists, health psychologists, and psychiatrists.

With Pleasure

With Pleasure
Author: August McLaughlin
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2021-09-14
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1641605065

A companion for anyone experiencing the effects of trauma, featuring true stories of survivors from a broad, inclusive range of backgrounds With Pleasure: Managing Trauma Triggers for More Vibrant Sex and Relationships is a companion for anyone experiencing the effects of trauma. Through true survivor stories, expert insight, writing prompts, and grounding exercises, it explores pleasure, relationships, and community as worthy and essential antidotes in trying times. Written by trauma-informed sex therapist Jamila Dawson, LMFT, and sexuality journalist and podcaster August McLaughlin, With Pleasure provides a much-needed alternative to harmful "self-help" ideologies that instruct people to "change their thoughts" or "choose to be happy." Instead, Dawson and McLaughlin encourage readers to respect their feelings, understand the complexities of a society and systems that fuel trauma, foster self-compassion, and embrace pleasure.

Thriving in Sex Work Workbook

Thriving in Sex Work Workbook
Author: Lola Davina
Publisher: Erotic as Power Press
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2018-02-15
Genre: Business planning
ISBN: 9780998892092

Sex work doesn't come with a beginner's manual. Erotic labor can be demanding, draining, and complex. There's no such thing as an employee handbook; most of us struggle to figure out this crazy business on our own. Lola Davina, acclaimed author of "Thriving in Sex Work: Heartfelt Advice for Staying Sane in the Sex Industry," drawing on more than 25 years in and around the sex industry, has created a workbook for sex work success. Lola's step-by-step practical action plans and creative exercises guide you to: Identify, target, and achieve your ideal clientele. Keep your body healthy and your mind clear.Be your own very best boss (even when working for someone else.) Execute feasible business and financial plans.Become the sex work rock star you were born to be! Creative, informative, inspirational, and fun, the "Thriving in Sex Work Workbook" helps make sex work work for you.

Clinician's Guide to LGBTQIA+ Care

Clinician's Guide to LGBTQIA+ Care
Author: Ronica Mukerjee, DNP, MSN, FNP-BC, MsA, LAc,
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2021-02-24
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 082616921X

Strive for health equity and surmount institutional oppression when treating marginalized populations with this distinct resource! This unique text provides a framework for delivering culturally safe clinical care to LGBTQIA+ populations filtered through the lens of racial, economic, and reproductive justice. It focuses strongly on the social context in which we live, one where multiple historical processes of oppression continue to manifest as injustices in the health care setting and beyond. Encompassing the shared experiences of a diverse group of expert health care practitioners, this book offers abundant examples, case studies, recommendations, and the most up-to-date guidelines available for treating LGBTQIA+ patient populations. Rich in clinical scenarios that describe best practices for safely treating patients, this text features varied healthcare frameworks encompassing patient-centered and community-centered care that considers the intersecting and ongoing processes of oppression that impact LGBTQIA+ people every day--particularly people of color. This text helps health providers incorporate safe and culturally appropriate language into their care, understand the roots and impact of stigma, address issues of health disparities, and recognize and avoid racial or LGBTQIA+ microaggressions. Specific approaches to care include chapters on sexual health care, perinatal care, and information about pregnancy and postpartum care for transgender and gender-expansive people. Key Features: Emphasizes patient-centered care incorporating an understanding of patient histories, safety needs, and power imbalances Provides tools for clinician self-reflection to understand and alleviate implicit bias Fosters culturally safe language and communication skills Presents abundant patient scenarios including specific dos and don'ts in patient treatment Includes concrete objectives, conclusions, terminology, and references in each chapter and discussion questions to promote critical thought Offers charts and information boxes to illuminate key information