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ForGail, Gayle, Sandy, Maluda, Sunny, Linda, Chris,Anna, Dawn, Chrissy, Colette, Candy, Jeri, Kathy,the girls of “GirlsGirlsGirls”
  
  
Don’t stop fighting, don’t stop living, andgoddammit, don’t stop having fun.
—MARGO ST. JAMES
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1
“THE REVOLUTION IS FINALLY HERE!”
Sex Work and Strategic Sex
CHAPTER 2
“THOSE FEW CAME ON LIKE GANGBUSTERS”
Prostitution and Sisterhood
CHAPTER 3
“MY ASS IS MINE!”
Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics
CHAPTER 4
“RESISTING THE VIRUS OF REPRESSION”
Disease Vectors and Sexual Experts
CHAPTER 5
“ASSEMBLY-LINE ORGASMS”
Organizing the Sex Market
CHAPTER 6
“FUCK THE PIGS!”
Public Sex and Police Violence
CHAPTER 7
SLUTS UNITE!
Disrupting Whorephobia and Slut-Shaming
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
NOTES
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
INTRODUCTION
SEX WORKERS ARE FIGHTERS. They aren’t young girls begging in a freezing Dickensian fog; they aren’t “Pretty Women” looking for Prince Charming; they aren’t victimized teenage runaways exploited by savage (read: black) pimps; they don’t have golden hearts; and they aren’t crack hos neglecting their babies to find a fix. They aren’t American or Jamaican gigolos looking to fleece middle-aged women or gay hustlers cruising for sugar daddies. And some sex workers may look like these stereotypes, yet they are fighters too.
Sex workers have been fighting for their right to work, for respect and justice, for a very long time. It would be extraordinary if members of the oldest profession had never complained, had never organized, or had never fought back. They have a lot to fight. Many wonder, “Why do they hate us?” Reverend Howard Moody of New York’s Judson Memorial Church heard a Times Square streetwalker complain about her confrontation with a passerby in the 1970s:
We ain’t doin’ nothin’ to them. Yesterday I’m just standin’ on the corner, not doin’ nothin,’ and this bitch come by and says, “Get off the street, you dirty slut.” If she hadn’t been so fast I’d have kicked her ass. I wasn’t hurtin’ her. Where does she get off, callin’ me names? You mean she ain’t never fucked for favors? We just tryin’ to make a livin’ like everybody else.1
Moral judgments about prostitutes embolden people to throw stones and insults. Politicians pander to the “women’s vote” by introducing legislation to punish sex workers and everyone near them. Police target street-based sex workers to show they’re “cleaning up” the city; FBI and immigration officials arrest female sex workers as trafficked, and claim their asso ............

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