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As some tech workers resist going back to the office, face job cuts that hurt progress in diversity and equality, and see their hopes of starting successful startups fade away, a group of tech workers is quietly leaving the industry for a different path: sex work.

These individuals, including erotic filmmakers, professional dominatrixes, and traditional escorts, share stories of feeling more empowered, satisfied, and creatively free in their new roles. They left the tech world due to sexism and discrimination, seeking more localized, creative, and empathetic work.

One former tech worker, Mistress Serafina, experienced sexism throughout her corporate career, from inappropriate propositions in interviews to being overlooked for opportunities. Now a professional dominatrix, she celebrates her temperament and personality in her work, finding appreciation and self-discovery in her new profession.

Other sex workers in the field echo similar sentiments. Mistress Fae, another former software professional turned dominatrix, emphasizes the genuine respect she receives from clients compared to her experiences in the tech industry. Many of these individuals have left tech behind, feeling frustrated and burnt out, but they believe their stories serve as a reminder to others facing discrimination and a message to tech employers missing out on talented workers.

As San Francisco leaders scramble to install barriers on Capp Street — hoping to divert, or at least slow down an unchecked market for sex work — some community organizers are contemplating a more controversial and far-reaching approach: creating a sanctioned red-light district.

The move has support from sex-worker advocates, Mission District residents who want the now-illicit business contained in a commercial zone and Supervisor Hillary Ronen, who broadly favors the idea but is more focused on lifting criminal penalties from the sex trade altogether. And she's turned to Sacramento for assistance. Ronen is drafting a resolution that would urge state legislators to write a bill that would legalize sex work.

A few weeks ago, rumors began spreading online that Nicole Doshi was missing. But Doshi wasn’t missing. Nor is she a sex trafficking victim, she emphatically told The Daily Beast in an interview. This wasn’t the first time someone had made a claim like this about me,” Doshi explained.

Many anti-porn and anti-trafficking groups have long argued that most (if not all) adult performers are actually victims in need of help—even if they say otherwise. Sex trafficking is, of course, a serious problem, and there have been several alleged and confirmed cases in the porn world. But most claims of pervasive abuse and trafficking in porn are based on dubious statistics, logical fallacies, and pure conjecture. So, like other sex workers, porn stars often have to contend with campaigns ostensibly created to help them, but that end up misrepresenting them and drawing attention away from their own efforts to address issues they do struggle with.

Carol Leigh, a San Francisco activist who is credited with coining the term “sex work” and who sought for decades to improve conditions for prostitutes and others in the adult entertainment business, has died. She was 71.

Kate Marquez, the executor of her estate, said Leigh died Wednesday of cancer, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Thursday.

A former prostitute, Leigh devoted herself to campaigning on behalf of those in the “sex work industry,” a term she coined as the title for a panel discussion she attended at a feminist anti-pornography conference in 1978, according to an essay she wrote.

Carol defined sex work as a labor issue, not a crime, not a sin,” Marquez said. “It is a job done by a million people in this country who are stigmatized and criminalized by working to support their families.

California has ended prosecution of prostitutes where they are loitering with the intent to engage in prostitution. The previous law allowed the police to target and arrest people who were wearing tight clothes and / or lots of makeup. Many of those impacted by the old law are Black and Brown trans women. This crime was so subjective and inherently profiling that it allows a police officer to arrest someone purely based on how they are dressed, whether they’re wearing high heels and certain kinds of make-up, how they’re wearing their hair, and the like.

SB 357 will repeal a discriminatory law that makes it a crime to loiter with the intent to engage in sex work, given that it fails to prevent street-based sex work and disproportionately results in the criminalization of transgender people and communities of color.

This heading is so wrong. The heading is copied from the article.  She was 13 when she was forced into prostitution and ended up shooting her pimp at 16. This to me is trafficking, and abuse of a minor.  The words Ex-Prostitute is so wrong in this abusive case.

Secondly, why was she sentenced to life imprisonment with no parole for killer her abuser. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger got involved and the sentence was reduced.

The article continues:

The pardon said,

“Ms. Kruzan committed a crime that killed the victim. Since then, Mrs. Kruzan has changed her life and devoted herself to community service.

The pardon said,

“This leniency to Ms. Kruzan does not minimize or forgive her behaviour or the harm it has caused.”

But it added: “It does recognize the work she’s done since then to transform herself.”

She should never have been sentenced to life with no parole. She still was in prison for 17 years for killing her abuser and trafficker. That does still sound to me a harsh sentence for an under 16 years old minor who had been pimped and abused.

California has an anti-loitering code, which was meant to crack down on sex workers. This law has hit the transgender community particularily hard. State Senator Scott Wiener, says it was discrimination. Wiener says that many people have started calling the anti-loitering law, the "walking while trans" law.

Earlier this year New York repealed a similar law.

The San Franciso based organisation supporting sex workers has been in operation for 22 years. The organisation was founded by sex workers and San Francisco escorts and health care workers, including the Margo St James who recently died. The institute is a free clinic run by sex workers for sex workers.

SANTA CLARA COUNTY, Calif. (KRON) — A married couple has been charged with human trafficking and operating at least six brothels in Santa Clara County.

The victims told authorities that they would service 10-15 men per day. They found the brothels online and paid Hu through Venmo and PayPal, according to the DA. The victims said they often were locked in the brothels and their passports were taken from them. The women also had to pay for their own food and daily necessities.

The suspects will be arraigned Friday. Davies and Hu are charged with felony human trafficking, pimping and pandering, and money laundering.

A law which repeals provisions of California law that criminalizes loitering for the intent to engage in sex work passed through the Senate Public Safety Committee by a vote of 4-1.

Senate Bill 357, authored by Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), repeals provisions of state statues that criminalize loitering for the intent to engage in sex work. These provisions oft times result in the disproportionate criminalization of trans, Black and Brown women, and perpetuates violence toward sex workers. 

She founded a group called COYOTE (Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics) and devoted her life to the cause of decriminalizing prostitution.

Ms. St. James, who called herself a sex-positive feminist, founded a group called COYOTE (Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics) in 1973 to press for health care, legal rights and financial security for sex workers. The group successfully fought to overturn San Francisco policies that required arrested sex workers to be tested for sexually transmitted diseases and to be quarantined if they tested positive.

In the process, Ms. St. James sought to reframe prostitution as a profession with legitimate workplace and human rights issues rather than as something sinful. (An ally, Carol Leigh, coined the term “sex worker” in the early 1980s, and Ms. St. James helped popularize it.)

She has also been accused of being conservative about sex work and mocking BLM activists for the slogan “build schools, not prisons.”

In 2019, Harris was against “Proposition K” which was brought about by sex workers to end prostitution arrests in San Francisco. She also tried to shut down a page named Backpage, an online marketplace for sex workers, to end sex work.

However, in a conversation with the Root in 2018, she said that she was in favour of sex work, which many argue is intentional for banking in votes.

After a high-end escort in Los Angeles believed she was drugged, raped, and filmed without consent by an Ohio plastic surgeon in town for a conference, she logged onto a secret database that women use to warn each other about predatory men.

It would start a chain of events that ended with the arrest of Gupta last week, accused of illegally using clinical drugs—including the horse tranquilizer ketamine—to drug sex workers, sexually assault their motionless bodies and secretly film it.

VerifyHim.com requires users to pay for membership, is hard to join without an invitation and, in light of SESTA/FOSTA, now requires lengthy verification. It’s one of a handful of closed-door screening sites that not only protect sex workers but, as the Gupta case shows, can be crucial for securing arrests.