“My worst experience being a sex worker was being arrested. It was a humiliating and disgusting effort to “teach me a lesson” for shooting my mouth off as a sex-worker-rights activist. I fought back, and in the end I prevailed, as I was neither convicted of anything nor did I go to trial. But still, the handcuffs and the sexual leering from the police officers at the station were insulting and degrading. The irony, of course, is that law enforcement is fond of saying they want to “save” prostitutes from a “degrading” lifestyle.”
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Johns, Marks, Tricks, and Chickenhawks: The Rumpus Interview with Veronica Monet
(via therumpus)