Sex Work
The rights of UK sex workers are under threat – why?
Everything you need to know — While sex work has always been a precarious profession, the UK government is now pushing it to its limits. Writer Lydia Morrish meets the collectives and organisations who are revolting for their rights.
Written by: Lydia Morrish
Photos that capture the red lights of ’70s Paris
Pigalle People — Out of low-lit bars and into bedrooms, Pigalle People is an ode to Paris’s lost sex-workers through the humanist lens of Jane Evelyn Atwood.
Written by: Ellie Howard
Neville Southall tackles… Decriminalising sex work
Neville Knows Best — Footballing legend and Twitter sensation Neville Southall takes on the biggest issues of our time. This week it's sex work, and why it's time to decriminalise the oldest profession in the world.
Written by: Neville Southall
Why does feminism keep leaving sex workers behind?
#ThemToo — Erika Lust discusses the media’s dire treatment of sex workers, and asks why social justice movements like #MeToo have left them almost completely out of the conversation.
Written by: Erika Lust
Capturing the dark side of China’s underground club scene
Into the night — Photographer and dancer Sergey Melnitchenko goes backstage at a nameless Chengdu city nightclub in his Behind The Scenes photo series.
Written by: Dominique Sisley
Up close and personal with male sex worker and activist Thierry Schaffauser
Documenting Thierry — Photographer Marc Vallée spent two years collaborating with Thierry, documenting the personal and the political of the young sex worker's life for his latest zine, Documenting Thierry.
Written by: Michael Segalov
The photographer turning sex workers into works of art
The Act — Photographer Julia Fullerton-Batten's latest project, The Act, captures women in the sex industry in theatrical scenes and allows them to tell their own stories.
Written by: Michael Segalov // Jen Brook
The play putting the everyday stories of sex workers on stage
Neither villains nor victims — See Me Now, a new play at the Young Vic in London, is written and performed by current and former sex workers. We talk to its creators about why it's time their voices are heard.
Written by: Marta Bausells
Tackling stigma with gender queer pornstar Jiz Lee
Coming Out Like A Pornstar — Non-binary sex industry veteran Jiz Lee made a serious impact last year with a collection of touching memoirs about life in front of the lens, Coming Out Like A Pornstar. Now Jiz is turning the very vulnerability of these stories into a powerful political voice.
Written by: Marianna Manson
Stripping away the stigma: Photos of London's male sex workers in 2016
Meet the men — When it comes to sex work current debates are consumed by ethics and morals, but all too regularly we ignore the human faces and stories of those who've chosen to earn cash in the oldest profession on earth. Photographer Jessica Kelly has set out to shoot intimate portraits of some of London's male sex workers, in the hope of stripping away the stigma surrounding the industry.
Written by: Tenelle Ottley-Matthew