HIST 3010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: David Aaron Clark, Coyote, Street Prostitution
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Sharon abbott, motivations for pursuing an acting career. Methods: collected data in san francisco and la, lots of interviews. Theresa a. reed, public acts versus public art: where. Abbott admits that although she comes from a sexually conservative background, she met sex workers and saw that they were independent, hardworking women: 2. That it changed her view that all sex workers were deluded and/or exploited: 3. Images of porn change views of sex workers: 4. Not all good stuff in porn industry, there is a lot about sex work that is nasty in sense of exploitation, people with dependency issues, violence (especially in street prostitution: 5. Sex work is broad and sex workers organize in unions: 6. Sex workers also set up support groups and advocacy groups that are less formal: 7. Harm can come to sex workers, prostitution considered more dangerous because it is illegal so there is less job protection and more secrecy in that business: 8.