Sex Work 101

History
When I wrote my post What Is A Provider? I briefly mentioned reviews boards and hobbyists. Review boards made their debut in the late 1990s. The largest reviews boards are The Erotic Review and Big Doggie. From these two large entities, smaller regional boards were started and focused on specific regions (ASPD, Companion Review) to [...]

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Unless you work as a sex worker or are a frequent client, you’re probably unfamiliar with the term “provider.”
The term “provider” was developed by clients of sex workers (also known as “hobbyists”) who write detailed stories of their experiences with sex workers on discussion-oriented websites known as Review Boards. The term became commonplace in the [...]

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When the sex industry is covered by the mainstream media, they often use phrases and words to describe the business that aren’t actually used by people who work in it. Here are some of these words and phrases, and what should be used instead.
Call girl – this isn’t entirely offensive or completely wrong because it’s [...]

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The sex industry is a big, amorphous, largely unregulated (though in some instances, strangely and/or over-regulated) industry. It includes both legal and illegal jobs and in the United States is often identified as a multi-billion dollar a year business. Exact figures vary widely and are hard to confirm, as most businesses within the industry are [...]

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A sex worker is a person who does erotic labor in exchange for an agreed upon exchange of money, goods or services.
Sound vague? It’s meant to be!
It’s often assumed that “sex worker” is a euphemism for “prostitute” – but actually it’s an umbrella term for many different kinds of jobs within the sex industry. A [...]

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