As one highly successful worker remarks, “I’m so tired of this exploitative or empowering paradigm appearing in every discourse around sex work. Please change the record. Ask different questions. Ask not if the work oppresses us, but why society finds it necessary to deny us access to rights and resources that everyone else gets.”
Movie Stars Have No Way Of Knowing What Walking In Our Shoes Is Like No Matter How Much “Research” They Do
Sarah Jones, the woman who started the Buy/Sell/Date project, is an actress and not a sex worker. Clearly, she lacks understanding about what questions are actually important to ask. True, they say, “interviews will also include other experts.” But these “experts” tend to be new, failed, or temporary phase workers (meaning this is not their career). You have to realize, when casting any kind of doc, producers can still pick out workers that fit their narrative. This means unless it’s produced by an actual worker, these films and docs will forever be a reflection of society’s idea of us at large and will likely gear towards whatever opinion is popular in that moment of time.
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I personally feel like an animal in a test lab. Everyone wants to examine us like we are mythical creatures yet to be understood. We shouldn’t be anyone’s “case study,” and it’s unfathomable why people would feel it’s okay to treat us as such. Conclusions have been made without our say in the matter. Don’t be complicit; speak up — advocate for room for sex workers to have their own say.
Sell/Buy/Date is no different than any other doc that has rocketed to the top of Netflix in recent years. This one, in particular, will likely be even further removed from our reality. All I can wonder is, how will this next documentary, and those still to come, mess with our lives? What other false speculations will they come up with? How will this set us back? Hollywood’s “help” is hurting us. Hollywood, we ask you to stop.
So, the real question is: Is sex work exploitative, or is Hollywood the one exploiting sex work(ers)?
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