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Frontmatter
Dedication
Contents
Introduction
Part I: The Internet Changes the Game
1. Punishing Sex: How Financial Discrimination and Content Moderation Harm Online Sex Workers
2. Sugar Dating: What Counts as Sex Work
3. "Bitch Wanted a Woke White Medal": Racialized Emotional Labor and White Guilt in the Digital Sex Industry
4. "I Didn't Know I Was into Trans Men until I Saw You": Trans Men Reimagined through Pornography
5. Pornography with Heart: The Holistic Potential of Feminist Porn
Part II: Intersections
6. "It's Normal for Me": Structuring Sex Work around Disability
7. "I Was Too Fat": Anti-Fatness as a Workplace Access Issue
8. The "Big Beautiful Women" Awards: Fat Latinas in the Porn Industry
9. "Looking White": Sex Workers of Color Hacking White Supremacy
10. "Whorearchy": Racial Earnings Disparities in Webcam Modeling
11. Sex Worker Scholars: Navigating Outness in Academic Spaces
12. Ethical Sexual Services: Sexual Assistance for People with Disabilities
Part III: The Work of Sex Work
13. "My Brand Is Girl Next Door": Authenticity and Privilege among Transfeminine Porn Performers
14. Dominating Pleasure: High Job Satisfaction among Professional Dominatrixes
15. Not a Client, Not a Sex Worker: Dismantling the "Pimp" Stereotype
16. Masturbating to Capitalism: How Findom Challenges and Reinforces Patriarchal and Capitalist Relations
17. Gifts of Desire: The Erotics of Gift Exchange and Sex Worker Mutual Aid
Part IV: The State and Criminalization
18. "Beat 'Em at Their Game": The Strategic Deployment of "Victimhood" as Resistance
19. The Harms of Helping: An Indigenous Perspective on the Industrial Rescue Complex
20. "The Police Don't Protect Us!": Why Sex Workers Don't Trust the Police
21. Raids and Rescues: The Effects of Prostitution-Diversion Programs on Asian Women Massage Parlor Workers
22. Disability at the Revolving Door: Perspectives on Mental Illness and Predatory Policing
Part V: Sex Worker Activism
23. After Decriminalization: A Labor-Rights Agenda for the Sex Industry
24. It's Time to Sue for What: We Want The New Legal Tools for Strippers
25. Taking Our Words Right out of Our Mouths: The Appropriation of Sex Worker-Rights Language
26. "May There Be Evidence of My Life at My Disposal": Israeli Sex Workers Dismantling the "Whore" Stigma
Part VI: New Directions and Perspectives
27. The Field of Sex Work Studies: Past, Present, and Future
28. Were the Feminist Sex Wars Inevitable? Smashing the Binary
29. Following the Money: Kenyan Sex Workers' Strategies during Crisis
30. "I'll Take What I Can Get": Transmasculine and Nonbinary Sex Workers, Sexual Capital, and Trans Joy
31. Cybrothel: The World's First A.I. Sex Worker
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
About the Contributors
Index
Dedication
Contents
Introduction
Part I: The Internet Changes the Game
1. Punishing Sex: How Financial Discrimination and Content Moderation Harm Online Sex Workers
2. Sugar Dating: What Counts as Sex Work
3. "Bitch Wanted a Woke White Medal": Racialized Emotional Labor and White Guilt in the Digital Sex Industry
4. "I Didn't Know I Was into Trans Men until I Saw You": Trans Men Reimagined through Pornography
5. Pornography with Heart: The Holistic Potential of Feminist Porn
Part II: Intersections
6. "It's Normal for Me": Structuring Sex Work around Disability
7. "I Was Too Fat": Anti-Fatness as a Workplace Access Issue
8. The "Big Beautiful Women" Awards: Fat Latinas in the Porn Industry
9. "Looking White": Sex Workers of Color Hacking White Supremacy
10. "Whorearchy": Racial Earnings Disparities in Webcam Modeling
11. Sex Worker Scholars: Navigating Outness in Academic Spaces
12. Ethical Sexual Services: Sexual Assistance for People with Disabilities
Part III: The Work of Sex Work
13. "My Brand Is Girl Next Door": Authenticity and Privilege among Transfeminine Porn Performers
14. Dominating Pleasure: High Job Satisfaction among Professional Dominatrixes
15. Not a Client, Not a Sex Worker: Dismantling the "Pimp" Stereotype
16. Masturbating to Capitalism: How Findom Challenges and Reinforces Patriarchal and Capitalist Relations
17. Gifts of Desire: The Erotics of Gift Exchange and Sex Worker Mutual Aid
Part IV: The State and Criminalization
18. "Beat 'Em at Their Game": The Strategic Deployment of "Victimhood" as Resistance
19. The Harms of Helping: An Indigenous Perspective on the Industrial Rescue Complex
20. "The Police Don't Protect Us!": Why Sex Workers Don't Trust the Police
21. Raids and Rescues: The Effects of Prostitution-Diversion Programs on Asian Women Massage Parlor Workers
22. Disability at the Revolving Door: Perspectives on Mental Illness and Predatory Policing
Part V: Sex Worker Activism
23. After Decriminalization: A Labor-Rights Agenda for the Sex Industry
24. It's Time to Sue for What: We Want The New Legal Tools for Strippers
25. Taking Our Words Right out of Our Mouths: The Appropriation of Sex Worker-Rights Language
26. "May There Be Evidence of My Life at My Disposal": Israeli Sex Workers Dismantling the "Whore" Stigma
Part VI: New Directions and Perspectives
27. The Field of Sex Work Studies: Past, Present, and Future
28. Were the Feminist Sex Wars Inevitable? Smashing the Binary
29. Following the Money: Kenyan Sex Workers' Strategies during Crisis
30. "I'll Take What I Can Get": Transmasculine and Nonbinary Sex Workers, Sexual Capital, and Trans Joy
31. Cybrothel: The World's First A.I. Sex Worker
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
About the Contributors
Index