Sex Work on Campus

Front matter

Interdisciplinary Research in Gender

SEX WORK ON CAMPUS

Terah J. Stewart

Contents

Foreword by thotscholar viii Preface: The immortal spirit of wild women xiii Acknowledgments XX 1 Introduction 1 2 History, politics, law, and stigma 42 3 College students, sex work, and higher education 68 4 Letters to a young sex worker 97 5 Endarkened consciousness, the lessons of sex working 122

6 If sex workers were free: Toward a radical erotic politic in higher education 143 Afterword by Raquel Savage 174 Epilogue 178 Appendix: Data analysis 181

Foreword By thotscholar

Foreword

Greek philosophia “love of knowledge, pursuit of wisdom, systematic investigation,” from philo- “loving” + sophia “knowledge, wisdom,” from sophis “wise, learned.”

I prefer “fe/male-assigned” to the acronyms in my writing because while they mean the same thing, that is, I’m referring to legal sex designations, I don’t like how the acronyms look LOL.

This is a pre-white western lens, meaning we can’t gauge other non-white culture’s attitudes toward prostitution from this.

You can look up all these terms on Bible Hub, which collects entries from multiple sources, including Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance, Thayer’s Greek Lexicon, and the NAS Exhaustive Concordance. Link: https://biblehub.com/ greek/4203.htm.

No shade to Carol Leigh, also known as Scarlot Harlot, who I’ve had fantastic conversations with about this and other things. My paraphrased version of her story about the term “sex worker” goes like this: Leigh was a part of a political conference about prostitute’s rights. When she arrived, she saw a sign that referred to the “Sex Use Industry.” Leigh was understandably put off by the term “use” and thus she substituted “work.” According to her, she never meant for it to be a replacement for prostitute, and she uses both terms. So, this is a great example of how your creation goes out into the world and lives a life of its own. Though this project is focused on “black” people in the west, specifically America, thingification is not unique to African-descended people. Other populations who have been, or still are, thingified include Jews, lower-caste and slave-caste people, indigenous/aboriginal peoples globally, various groups of non-white and pre-white immigrants, disabled people, and mixed-race individuals.