Reviews tagging 'Domestic abuse'

Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers' Rights by Molly Smith, Juno Mac

7 reviews

kirstenf's review

informative medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Sexual content, Transphobia, Murder, Police brutality, Classism, Racism, Drug use, Rape, Sexual assault, Trafficking, Addiction, Sexual violence, Violence, Toxic relationship, Sexism, and Domestic abuse

sedgewren's review

informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.75

A clear and sharp analysis of the failings of the regulations around the world that exacerbate the difficulties and dangers of sex workers' daily lives. Sex work is work, and most sex workers do sex work for the same reasons most people work: for an income to survive.

This book clarified my views and helped me think through my intersectional feminist politics and applying it to the controversial topic of sex work — the combination of thorough research and compelling anecdotes provided a compelling argument for decriminalisation of sex work (this leading to sex work being regulated just like the rest of the labour market). We should be centering the experiences of sex workers when talking about regulating sex work, and criminalisation does not lead to abolition.

I would thoroughly recommend this book to any feminists who are unsure what to think about prostitution, and also to any policymakers who want to help alleviate the suffering and difficulties of the most marginalised in our society.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Drug use, Police brutality, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Death, Drug abuse, Deportation, Domestic abuse, Hate crime, Misogyny, Trafficking, Forced institutionalization, Rape, Sexual assault, and Racism

tuesday_evening's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Forced institutionalization, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Transphobia, Sexism, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Deportation

Minor: Ableism, Addiction, Emotional abuse, Abortion, and Gaslighting

n_t_sh_'s review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

As a piece of non fiction, this is a spectacular piece of research and a tribute to the struggle of sex workers' to be acknowledged as worker's and not as social reprobates.
An emotionally challenging read. Not just because of the awful treatment towards sex workers' but also the vitriol from others (mostly not sex workers') who feel their opinion is more important than asking the demographic being addressed, in this case sex workers', what they feel they need.
I did also find the different political terminology a challenge but very well explained by the authors.
There are some ideas in here that I find a bit frustrating, because they seem too big to achieve but that is not the fault of the authors', but the fault of the law and society at large.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Domestic abuse, Murder, and Rape

georgiam06's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse

Minor: Rape, Sexual assault, Racism, Ableism, Sexism, and Xenophobia

susannaobrien's review

challenging informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

An incredibly important read for anyone who claims to be a feminist or supporter of worker & human rights. Molly Smith and Juno Mac present a clear, compelling and thoroughly researched case for decriminalisation of sex work and surrounding policy reform. Their argument is based on the material experiences of actual, current sex workers (as opposed to misguided, paternalisti instincts of anti-prostitution feminists) and is underpinned by principles of harm reduction methods, that give sex workers more, not less, power as workers. They don't shy away from complexity in their arguments or solutions: they present the relative strengths and failings of various models; explain how sex worker's issues are inseparable from issues of poverty, migration controls, policing, racism, transphobia and more; and debunk myths that are pervasive in the "saviouristic" rhetoric around sex work. This is a brilliant introduction to the sex worker's rights movement and I want to recommend it to everyone. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use, Sexual violence, Police brutality, Transphobia, Trafficking, Racism, Rape, Murder, Misogyny, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Abortion

tieflingkisser's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Misogyny, Domestic abuse, Death, Police brutality, Rape, Sexual violence, and Sexual assault

Minor: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Kidnapping, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Trafficking, and Transphobia