This Is Us

How Sex Work Saved Me From Academia

The rhetoric is that sex workers need to be saved from exploitation. But sex work is precisely what protected me from it.

Ellis Brooks
Human Parts
Published in
13 min readAug 24, 2021

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Editor’s Note: This Medium Writers Challenge entry was added to Human Parts on October 20th, 2021.

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Ellis Brooks
Human Parts

Writer. Historian. Harlot. Supremely sex-positive and pseudonymous. she/her