Published in 2018
288 pages
Juno Mac is a sex worker and activist with the Sex Worker Advocacy and Resistance Movement (SWARM), a sex worker–led collective with branches in London, Leeds and Glasgow.
Molly Smith is a sex worker and activist with the Sex Worker Advocacy and Resistance Movement, London, UK.
What is this book about?
How the law harms sex workers—and what they want instead.
Do you have to endorse prostitution in order to support sex worker rights? Should clients be criminalized, and can the police deliver justice? In Revolting Prostitutes, sex workers Juno Mac and Molly Smith bring a fresh perspective to questions that have long been contentious. Speaking from a growing global sex worker rights movement, and situating their argument firmly within wider questions of migration, work, feminism, and resistance to white supremacy, they make it clear that anyone committed to working towards justice and freedom should be in support of the sex worker rights movement.
This is rare book written by actual sex workers discussing the actual real life impact of prostitution laws, legalization and criminalisation from a worker’s rights and harm-reduction perspective. It’s neither pro nor anti-sex work, but instead advocates for looking practically at the situation, including the way that the prison system, the police and borders impact sex workers (with specific reference to the most vulnerable and marginalized sex workers, including black, trans and migrant individuals).
