Sex Work

Call Your Girlfriend

Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow

Society & Culture

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Sex work brings out extreme views. On one end of the dial: "It's purely exploitative and nothing someone could actively consent to!" And on the other: "It's wholly empowering consensual trade that should be celebrated!" We talk with writer and sex worker Lorelei Lee about how sex work can be like other kinds of labor: underpaid, boring, unfulfilling, and yet not necessarily vile criminality or sublimely erotic and expressive. A pair of laws passed by Congress in 2018, SESTA and FOSTA, have made sex work more dangerous and subject to criminal prosecution.

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0:00.0	Welcome to call your girlfriend a podcast for long distance festies everywhere. I am Amina Tussaud and I'm Ann Friedman. Hello
0:09.2	Hello Amina Tussaud
0:13.4	I will not let go the tadmin eager what's going on over there? I mean do I sound eager?
0:18.8	I really I am always happy to hear from you like if you interpret as eager
0:23.1	Same and same and I'm always thirsty to hear your voice. Hello. I'm never like oh she's calling again
0:30.8	Crow you know I don't call
0:33.2	Exactly you really leave me wanting more
0:38.3	Wow my therapist is gonna love this
0:43.3	How's it going? Oh it's going good. I am excited about our guest and about the conversation
0:49.5	We're gonna have on today's episode tell me about it on our agenda today is
0:54.8	Revisiting Sesta and Fosta which if you are not someone who loves an acronym is the stop enabling sex traffickers act and
1:03.2	The allow states and victims to fight online sex trafficking act like woo a mouthful
1:09.9	Essentially we are revisiting legislation that is
1:14.3	purporting to protect people and is in fact making life more dangerous and difficult for sex workers
1:24.2	Call your girlfriend
1:28.1	Time you have the talk
1:32.0	Give your reasons
1:35.8	Say it's not her fault
1:39.8	But you just met somebody new
1:46.6	Tell her to get obsessed
1:54.8	Not something we've talked about in depth before on the show no we definitely talked to Kamala Harris about it when we had her on the show way back when
2:03.9	Right, so we talked to Kamala Harris last year. It was right before she announced her presidential campaign which she recently ended
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