Welcome to Call Your Girlfriend, a podcast for long distance festies everywhere.

She is Anne Friedman.

She is Amina Tussaud.

This week we're revisiting our interview with writer and sex worker Laura Lylee.

We talked to her originally in December of 2019 about a couple of things, about the way

people really tend to reduce sex work to totally exploitative on one end or wholly empowering

on the other.

Laura Lylee, someone who's really written quite a bit about the nuanced realities of sex

work, we also talked about some of the legal histories surrounding sex work in the United

States, particularly a pair of laws passed by Congress in 2018 known as Sesta and Fasta

that made sex work more dangerous and subject to criminal prosecution.

It's been in the news this week because only fans, which is a platform that a lot of sex

workers use, announced it was going to ban sexually explicit material and then later said,

no, it wasn't.

But anyway, there's been a kind of a resurgence of conversation around sex work, sex work

online and the work in addition to the core of the job that sex workers have to do to navigate

the tech world, the legal world and the stigma that they face.

Our guest today is Laura Lylee.

She is a writer, advocate, adult film performer and she recently published a piece in N plus

one that I found extremely educational in terms of the history of legislation, federal legislation

and at the state level about sex work and trafficking, about the ways in which consent

or consensually performing sex work or being against your will trafficked, the ways that

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