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As much as I hate all work and am a believer in the anti-work anarchism of Bob Black and also very specifically @/thotscholar's conception of sex work as anti-work (not tagging them bc I don't need to drag them into my rambling thoughts here but wanted to cite sources)...
I also do find profound value sometimes in recognizing sex work as work. And these are not incompatible!
Anyway, today in Sex Work As Work: the skills I've learned in using Excel to keep track of online content sales are proving very useful to me in my social work internship
Anyway, today in Sex Work As Work: the skills I've learned in using Excel to keep track of online content sales are proving very useful to me in my social work internship
Turns out keeping track of how many copies of unaware giantess fetish porn I've sold is very similar to budgeting salaries for various non-profit programs. Who knew (sex workers knew).
I acknowledge that not everyone who trades sex conceptualizes what they're doing as work-- for some it is survival, for some it is abuse, for some it is a hustle-- but part of what's so offensive about SWERFs complete rejection of "sex work is work" is that it devalues our skills
Social work takes a strengths-based approach to working with clients. Recognizing the transferrable skills that sex workers know is crucial to social workers being able to competently working with us.
When you approach me as if my experience in the sex trades is indistinguishable from, say, the domestic violence I've experienced, you actually make it harder for me to transition to other employment.
And, shit, even experiences like DV teach us some skills. This is why I always say that the SWERF positioning of abuse as being anathema to work is a false dichotomy. Abuse often involves work, work is often abusive, and sex *workers* have valuable, transferable skills.
Also, to be clear, you don't have to be doing relatively privileged online content production sex work to be gaining skills. I didn't do that until the pandemic hit. In-person sex work of all kind imparts valuable skills around communication, client relations, scheduling etc etc
