PROSTITUTION LEGALIZATION PRIMER
(A Public Service Announcement from Suburra Publishing.)
Myth #2
Prostitution degrades women.
Many female sex workers feel sex work is empowering and 97% of call girls like themselves, "more than before," they began prostitution. One of the oldest organizations of prostitutes in America that seeks to end the stigma and criminal laws surrounding sex work is COYOTE (Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics) started by former prostitute, Margo St. James, in 1973. COYOTE is not alone. Sex worker organizations and their websites can be found on the Prostitution Legalization Links page.
Norma Jean Almodovar (above), who was a Los Angeles police officer before becoming a call girl, wrote, "Prostitution offered all the things I wanted in a career: I could choose my own hours, see only men I liked, and go to the finest restaurants with clients. And I loved sex. What more could I ask for?” She also described one of her years as a call girl as “one of the happiest of my life ... I felt I was in heaven.”
Almodovar's "Top Ten Feminist Lies and Myths About Prostitution" Poster can be downloaded at the following link at ISWFACE.org:
Minimized Version for Web Viewing
The 1970s
porn star, Seka (Dorothiea Patton, above), a former high school homecoming
queen, said:
Five Outspoken and Proud Former Prostitutes
(for more details go to The Prostitution Hall of Fame)
1. Margo St. James - founder of COYOTE and co-authored A Vindication of the Rights of Whores (1989).
2. Xaviera Hollander - author of The Happy Hooker (1971).
3. Norma Jean Almodovar - Former Los Angeles police officer turned call girl wrote Cop to Call Girl (1993).
4. Carol Leigh - Leigh coined the term "sex work" in the early 1970s and wrote Unrepentant Whore (2004).
5. Annie Sprinkle - Sprinkle was a porn star and worked as a prostitute off and on for 20 years. She now has a Ph.D. in human sexuality.
Information and illustrations taken from You Will Die: The Burden of Modern Taboos, Book I by Robert R. Arthur. Detailed documentation of sources can be found therein.
Page last modified August 29, 2007.
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