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 | Last Wednesday, March 3, was the ninth year that sex workers and their allies marked International Sex Worker Rights Day. Almost all the work I do about sex is about access. I'm so aware of the ways that lack of access -- to sex information, to potential partners, to basic sexual rights -- result in poor sexual health, including limited experience of sexual pleasure, for all of us. Understanding sexuality through the lens of access one begins to see many similarities in the ways that sex workers and people living with disabilities are marginalized sexually. It makes conversations about sex work and disability particularly rich and complicated (not to mention difficult, funny, painful, exciting, and more). This week I wanted to share my response to an interesting and insightful article that challenges both the progressive and conservative views on sex work and disability. I hope you find it stimulating, in really any sense of the word ~ Cory | |
Considering and Reconsidering Sex Work and Disability
Over at the Crip Confessions blog Bethany Stevens unpacks the idea that people with disabilities should be able to get sex work paid for by the state. I probably think about this more than you do, but whether it's the first time you've seen the words "sex work" and "disability" in the same sentence, or the last time you want to see them together, Bethany's post is worth the time.
| What Is Sex Work?
Words matter. Not always in ways we might imagine or can predict, and they never have one meaning, but they do matter. So what do we mean when we say sex work? And what's the difference between sex work and prostitution?
| Sex and Disability Around the Web
An incomplete but growing list of websites, organizations, and online media focusing on sexuality and disability. Visit these great spaces and if you've got others to recommend, let me know and I'll add them to the list.
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