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American Fever Dream

#551 Sex Work Is Work

American Fever Dream

Betches

News, Politics, Daily News

4.62K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Amanda Duberman is joined by Kaytlin Bailey, stand-up comic and sex worker advocate, to break down the landscape for sex workers and prostitution policy in the US. They discuss how old-school feminism tarnishes sex work as anti-woman when criminalizing it actually feeds the patriarchy. Kaytlin also runs through some huge legal fights that will change the future for sex workers, and why victories for them mean better privacy and labor rights for all of us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Betcha's media presents. Madame Speaker, Madame Vice President. You want

0:04.3

to hang out with us and get your back seat. And so I went to human resources.

0:09.2

There are some things I just can't tell you on air. The Betcha's sub podcast.

0:13.9

A woman's problem if you will.

0:18.4

Hello, I'm Amanda Diverman and this is the Betcha sub podcast.

0:21.6

We're C-Span, meets the group chat. Tell me a process and laugh at the biggest

0:24.8

topics and US news and politics. Welcome back to the show. Today I am here to talk about

0:31.7

sex work and to help me do that is Caitlin Bailey. She is a stand-up comment as sex worker

0:37.2

rights activist and the executive director of old froze. Thank you so much for being here, Caitlin.

0:42.5

Thank you so much for having me. It's a big topic. Yeah, it's a huge topic, huge topic,

0:47.5

lots of different elements to hit on. We're so excited to have you here because there's been a

0:52.8

lot of news in this area. I think other sinners most recognizably know about only fans, but since

0:58.5

that activity, there has been even more happening and more high stakes news stories that could

1:03.4

really affect the landscape for sex workers. So we're going to talk about that today.

1:07.6

Yeah, absolutely. I actually want to push back on that and say that what affect sex workers

1:11.6

actually affects all of us. We recently went through that whiplash story with only fans threatening

1:18.7

to remove erotic content and then the whole internet asked like, you know, but what else do you

1:23.6

do? But now there's actually a case moving forward against Twitter, conflating the presence

1:33.2

of some underage sexual content with human trafficking. And so if that case is allowed to move

1:40.3

forward, this is really what sex workers have been frankly screaming about since the passage of

1:47.0

Sesta Fosta way back in April of 2018. You know, the back page trial is moving forward. It's in

1:54.2

court right now as we speak. And now with this case against Twitter, we are really looking at a

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