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The New York Times had a piece a couple weeks ago about the sex industry, about sex workers, about prostitution sex work.

And it was interesting and revealing and typical because they quoted researchers, social workers, scientists, pimps.

The only people who weren't quoted in this article, sex workers themselves.

It always seems when it comes to sex work that we can talk about it.

And there's a lot of talk about sex work out there.

But we don't talk to sex workers.

We talk about them.

We debate them.

We debate their jobs.

What does they do?

Why it is that they're doing it.

But very rarely even in the paper of record, even in a serious journalistic enterprise

where they always get both

sides. They always go to the people that they're talking about for their comment, for

their point of view, for their rebuttal.

But it comes to sex workers, you don't have to do that.

And that sort of blind spot I think is informed by a lot of misconceptions and prejudices

about sex work, which is that everyone who's doing it, either is doing it against their will or is doing it against

their will but doesn't realize it.

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