Abstract
As a white, middle-class Australian sex worker, my greatest professional fear was being “outed” to the women’s and community organizations with which I worked. For twenty years I supplemented my activist work, with its concomitant high social capital but limited financial rewards, with sex work, which provides financial rewards accompanied by significant stigma. This paper discusses the strategies I built into my day-to-day existence to protect my privacy, manage stress, and keep a long-term secret from my loved ones and colleagues while engaging in activism to promote our rights and the notion that sex work is real, and rewarding, work
Recommended Citation
Blissbomb, Lucinda
(2010)
"Sex work for the soul,"
Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies: Vol. 8:
Iss.
1, Article 14.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.cortland.edu/wagadu/vol8/iss1/14