I have to say that, as bad as the situation is for sex workers right now, I have never seen so much positive journalism about us in mainstream media as I have the last few years, and it’s giving me tiny shreds of hope to cling to.
For perspective: I’ve seen more positive articles about sex work in the last six months then I did the entire first 15 years I was a sex worker. I really cannot emphasize how dramatically this has changed.
Media is not in and of itself a changing of norms or changing of the laws, but simply knowing that there is an issue here and it has a NAME is important.
