Celebrating sex
May 14, 2008
How taboo is that, really? Saying sex work is work? Or good work? Step back, or step up, because I want to take this day, the day proclaimed by some UNLV students as a Day of No Prostitution, as a day to celebrate sex workers.
What I loved about sex work: that I could retire from a whole career in my life before thirty. I loved retiring, it’s true. I felt powerful after having organized my life so that I could participate in society on my own terms. There were times when sex work felt beneficial in its own right, but more so, sex work let me have my cake and eat it, too — how sinful, to be able to be an activist, budding journalist, go to college, and not have to hide.
For everyone who has claimed there’s Celebrating sex and some cottage industry of sex worker activists who come fully-formed from women’s studies programs, who do sex work just for “credibility” in order to sell a book, or defend “pimp culture,” or whatever supposed spoils of war we get for being whores? Really? Sure, whore stigma is leveraged differently across race and class and gender lines, and it’s usually the already-pretty-privileged workers who get airtime. Can we just call that what it is — social injustice, and not evidence of some huge pro-prostitution contingent in the media, government, and politics — and fight it together, please?
There’s also the possibility that the Celebrating sex award will go the way of so many “sex positive” efforts; devolving into a sex-positive love-in, where a small group of people get together and congratulate themselves on surviving in a media world that is hostile to their very existence. Not that an event like that isn’t needed. People who do sex positive work generally don’t make much money from it, and they receive far less attention than their obnoxious sex-positive-for-profit cousins (the ones who end up on Oprah and GMA). Their like academics without the teeny shred of respect academics still garner in our culture. But if it ends up just being a small group of sex-positive choir members preaching to each other it will have far less impact.
China has always been a very conservative society for Celebrating sex, all the more because of communism. The old school of thought still finds its existence in fragments. In a society thus shrouded, a sex museum is close to a revolution. Though today society is much lenient than what it was, open talk of sex is still behind close doors.
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