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The ‘Sex Work’ Discourse and Debate

In: Sex Worker Union Organising

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  • Gregor Gall

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The reporters flocking to cover our organizing drive often had a difficult time understanding what we do as ‘work’, but the job has always been defined in MY mind by the repetitive manual labor it demands. Punch a time clock, spot an open window, make eye contact, pout, wink, swivel your hips a little, put a stiletto-clad foot up on the window sill to reveal an eye-full of your two most marketable orifices, fondle your tits, smack your ass, stroke whatever pubic hair you haven’t shaven off, repeat these ten steps until the customer comes, then move on to the next window, repeat the process until your shift’s over, punch out. Some call it the fast food of the sex industry: We produce assembly-line orgasms.

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  • Gregor Gall, 2006. "The ‘Sex Work’ Discourse and Debate," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Sex Worker Union Organising, chapter 2, pages 21-35, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-50248-2_2
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230502482_2
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