“Sex work can indeed be empowering. But that is not the point. Money is the fucking point.” – Melissa Gira Grant, Playing the Whore Growing up I had three basic images of sex work (although I didn’t call it that then): the Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman version; the desperate, drug addicted woman; and the ‘sex slave’ in another country who was ‘rescued’ regularly on Dateline and 48 Hours. I didn’t spend time thinking about sex workers, but I did wonder why sex work was illegal […]