Ava Adore

Obs: Terminology: Sex Worker.

Not all sex workers are strippers. Not all strippers are sex workers.

Some in the industry joke that the only people who deny strippers are sex workers are the strippers. With a feminist mind, I ask you to examine that statement, that joke. That the butt of the joke lies in a woman’s ability—or seeming ‘disability’—to know what she is. To ‘know her place.’ To make her own self-aware decisions.

I resent being told I live in a fallacy bubble because I don’t identify as a sex worker. I sell sexuality—not sex. I am no more a sex worker as only a stripper than your usual actor, musician, model; those professions who also sell sexuality, sensuality. Elvis, Jimmy Hendrix, Marilyn Monroe, Angelina Jolie, Adriana Lima…

Would you call the Victoria’s Secret Angels sex workers?

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