Sex Work is Just That...Work

What is sex work?

Sex work is erotic labor performed for money, goods or services.

"Sex work" is not a politically correct term for prostitution, but rather an umbrella category of different types of work. Some sex worker jobs include:

• Phone sex operators
• Erotic models
• Prostitutes
• Erotic photographer
• Erotic and sex writers
• Erotic and pornographic publications
• Pornography actors
• Pornography directors

You will notice that some are legal professions, some are not and that every one of those jobs is a valid way to earn a living. Yet equal human rights do not exist for sex workers as they do for other workers.

Yet, prostitution is dually accepted as the world's oldest profession and the morally bankrupt option of drug addicts.


Sex workers, are in fact, people. People working to support themselves and often their families as well. As a sex writer, I am performing erotic works in exchange for money, but less people look down on what I do.


Sex worker rights are an important front in humans rights causes. Sex workers are doing their jobs to earn an income just like anyone else and face discrimination and a lack of rights because of moral judgements on their work.


Sex worker rights advocacy is not contrary to sexual education support either: rather, if education were a common goal it could dispel much of the absence of rights for sex workers.

Sex worker rights advocacy is about education and about equal rights for sex workers like that of any other worker.

• The right to pay employment taxes.
• The right to social benefits like pensions.
• The right to equal protection under the law.
• The right to improved working conditions.

If you want to do something to support the rights of sex workers, help support sex worker rights education with the New York City sex bloggers calendar.