Sex work today: erotic labor in the twenty-first century

Introduction / Bernadette Barton, Barbara G. Brents, and Angela Jones

Punishing sex : how financial discrimination and content moderation harm online sex workers / Val Webber

Sugar dating : what counts as sex work / Kavita Nayar Jablonka

"Bitch wanted a work White medal" : racialized emotional labor and White guilt in the digital sex industry / Shawna Felkins

"I didn't know I was into trans men until I saw you" : trans men reimagined through pornography / Trip Richards

Pornography with heart : the holistic potential of feminist porn / Inka Winter and Kelsy Burke

"It's normal for me" : structuring sex work around disability / Lindsay Blewett

"I was too fat" : anti-fatness as a workplace access issue / Peyton Bond

The "Big Beautiful Women" Awards : fat Latinas in the porn industry / Yessica Garcia Hernandez

"Looking White" : sex workers of color hacking white supremacy / Menaka Raguparan

"Whorearchy" : racial earnings disparities in webcam modeling / Alex J. Nelson, Bronwyn McBride, and Yeon Jung Yu

Sex worker scholars : navigating outness in academic spaces / Lizzie Blake and Lia Grey

Ethical sexual services : sexual assistance for people with disabilities / Giulia Garofalo and Julia Giacometti

"My brand is girl next door" : authenticity and privilege among transfeminine porn performers / Sophie Pezzutto

Dominating pleasure : high job satisfaction among professional dominatrixes / Tania G. Levey

Not a client, not a sex worker : dismantling the "pimp" stereotype / Zoey Jones, Stacey Hannem, and Chris Bruckert

Masturbating to capitalism : how findom challenges and reinforces patriarchal and capitalist relations / Jessica Van Meir and Hollie Anise

Gifts of desire : the erotics of gift exchange and sex worker mutual aid / Kassandra Sparks and Lena Chen

"Beat'em at their game" : the strategic deployment of "victimhood" as resistance / Liilian Taylor Jungleib

The harms of helping : an Indigenous perspective on the industrial rescue complex / Daniella Robinson

"The police don't protect us" : why sex workers don't trust the police / Kaytlin Bailey

Raids and rescues : the effects of prostitution-diversion programs on Asian women massage parlor workers / Moshoula Capous-Desyllas and Amie Carr

Disability at the revolving door : perspectives on mental illness and predatory policing / Summer Lopez Colorado

After decriminalization : a labor-rights agenda for the sex industry / Kate D'Adamo

It's time to sue for what we want : the new legal tools for strippers / Caity Gwin

Taking our words right out of our mouths : the appropriation of sex worker-rights language / Crystal A. Jackson

"May there be evidence of my life at my disposal" : Israeli sex workers dismantling the "whore" stigma / Yeela Lahav-Raz and Ayellet Ben Ner

The field of sex work studies : past, present, and future / Ronald Weitzer

Were the feminist sex wars inevitable? smashing the binary / Bernadette Barton and Breanne Fahs

Following the money : Kenyan sex workers' strategies during crisis / Peninah Mwangi and Eglė C̆esnulytė

"I'll take what I can get" : transmasculine and nonbinary sex workers, sexual capitol, and trans joy / Elliot Chudyk and Angela Jones

Cybrothel : the world's first A.I. sex worker / Kenneth R. Hanson and Alexis Smiley Smith.