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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Instead of protecting prostitutes, the police frequently make sex workers’ lives more dangerous.
Chapter 3: Attitudes toward sex work improved in the 1970s, and international efforts for progress continue.
Chapter 4: When debating the ethics or making laws about sex work, sex workers themselves are unfairly sidelined.
Chapter 5: The criminalization of prostitution creates a deadly hypocrisy that endangers the lives of sex workers.
Chapter 6: Society prefers sex work to stay hidden, yet the law upholds sex workers’ right to advertise.
Chapter 7: Moral judgment of women’s sexuality is tied to sex work, and women themselves help uphold slut shaming.
Chapter 8: Sex workers are often far more independent and empowered than we assume.
Description
Playing The Whore (2014) busts the myths still surrounding the topic of sex work and explores how and why society continues to shame the chosen profession of the sexually liberated. Unfortunately, society’s attitudes and laws often endanger, rather than protect, those who work in the sex industry. Discover why that is and why it’s time to change our perspective on one of the oldest professions in the world.
Who Should Listen
- Sexually liberated people tired of being judged
- Conservative people curious about the opinion of a sex worker
- Social workers looking for a different perspective