“At a glance, addiction, sex work, mad passion, and all forms of extreme behavior might look like pushing or trying to obliterate boundaries when, more honestly, they are a search for them. I want to find the endpoint, the place where my own powers end, so I can yield to something that I'm certain is bigger than me.” WantTryingLooksI CanEndsMightFormCertainPassionSexMy OwnBehaviorBiggerMadAddictionExtremesHonestlyBoundariesPushingYieldGlancesSex Work Author:Melissa Febos
“Early in my career as a domme, I both admired and feared becoming one of those career dommes. I saw, in myself, and in some other women in that industry, the way that sex work could eclipse the other parts of your personality, the way that I started to feel as if I wasn't qualified to do anything else. I had always known that I wanted to be a writer, and I stopped writing for a time while I was domming; the experience subsumed my other interests, and it scared me. Now, however, I have nothing but admiration for them.” IfsWayFeelsWritingWantedSexInterestKnownCareersSawsPersonalityIndustryBecomingScaredAdmirationQualifiedEclipseSex WorkBecoming One Author:Melissa Febos
“Frankly, sex work and stripping is very good if you have radical politics. You can go to meetings all night long.” IfsLongNightSexMeetingsVery GoodRadicalAll NightStrippingSex Work Author:Amber Hollibaugh
“In literature only trouble is interesting. It takes trouble to turn the great themes of life into a story: birth, love, sex, work, and death.” WritingStoriesTurnsLiteratureSexInterestingTroubleBirthThemeSex Work Author:Janet Burroway
“I would never want to take away the option of sex work from someone, but I would want to create more options so that everyone can make the decision whether they want to do sex work or they don't want to do sex work, and that people who do sex work can do it safely.” PeopleWantSexCan DoDecisionSex Work Author:Emily Symons