Sex Industry Quotes

“Capitalism is not wicked or cruel when the commodity is the whore; profit is not wicked or cruel when the alienated worker is a female piece of meat; corporate bloodsucking is not wicked or cruel when the corporations in question, sell cunt; racism is not wicked or cruel when the black cunt or yellow cunt or red cunt or Hispanic cunt or Jewish cunt has her legs splayed for any man's pleasure; poverty is not wicked or cruel when it is the poverty of dispossessed women who have only themselves to sell; violence by the powerful against the powerless is not wicked or cruel when it is called sex; slavery is not wicked or cruel when it is sexual slavery; torture is not wicked or cruel when the tormented are women, whores, cunts. The new pornography is left-wing; and the new pornography is a vast graveyard where the Left has gone to die. The Left cannot have its whores and its politics too.”
― Andrea Dworkin, Pornography: Men Possessing Women

“If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed.”
― Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch

“I am not who I was. I am not even who I was yesterday. Tomorrow I will be new again, and again, until I am completely the woman I was meant to be.”
― Harmony Dust

“our pain can be turned to purpose”
― Harmony Dust

“Our pain can be turned into purpose”
― Harmony Dust

“Story humanizes the woman on the other end of the dollar. When we see the humanity in someone, it becomes difficult to sexualize and objectify them.”
― Harmony Dust

“My story matters, but it does not define me.”
― Harmony Dust

“In fact, this is not a book about sex or sexual relations; rather, men's and women's participation in HCMC's sex industry involves much more than the purchase of sex.”
― Kimberly Kay Hoang, Dealing in Desire: Asian Ascendancy, Western Decline, and the Hidden Currencies of Global Sex Work

“As I sat on the back of his bike, Anh Bao pointed out local sex workers he recognized as they walked out of a bar with their arms wrapped around Viet Kieu men. He had gotten to know these women when he parked his bike outside the bar around closing time to offer cheap rides home to the women who had been unable to secure a client for the evening. Over the course of nearly three hours spent cycling the city, I took everything in—making mental notes of things I would later enter into my research. Anh Bao was a storyteller; and as we stopped outside each place, I propped on his bike laughing as he made up dramatic scenarios about the kinds of love affairs that occurred in each segment of the sex industry.”
― Kimberly Kay Hoang

“Wenn Freier Frauen kaufen, begehen sie damit nicht nur einen Gewaltakt an der individuellen Frau, sondern sie schaden damit auch Frauen, die sie selbst nie zu Gesicht bekommen werden: Sie finanzieren ein System, das auf Ausbeutung, Menschenverachtung und sexueller Gewalt basiert. Sie halten ein System aufrecht, das ohne Menschenhandel und Zuhälterei nicht existieren kann. Selbst Freier, die von sich sagen, keine Zwangsprostituierten zu besuchen, sorgen allein mit ihrem Freiersein dafür, dass eine Nachfrage bestehen bleibt und anderswo Frauen mit direkter Gewalt in die Prostitution verbracht werden. Freier finanzieren ein kriminelles Milieu, denn es gibt keine saubere Prostitution.”
― Huschke Mau, Entmenschlicht - Warum wir Prostitution abschaffen müssen