ivyaura:

how to show sex workers your support:

• read our experiences and listen to us
• think critically about your own whorephobic opinions and question why you have certain mindsets
• do not limit your support to the sex workers you see worthy of it (i.e., ignoring/shaming full service workers, drug-addicts, mothers, etc)
• understand that sex workers are people too and that means we are not subject to non-sex workers asking invasive questions, our personal boundaries being pushed, and literal abuse and harassment 
• fight whorephobia in your everyday life as you would any other oppression, even if it means calling our your friend on using a slur or making a dead h**ker joke
• realize that you do NOT know as much as we do, you do NOT have the experience we do, and you do NOT have more knowledge than us
• respect us and do not speak over us, do not EVER act as if you know more than us, do not try explaining things to us. we know what we’re doing
• don’t insert yourself into conversations about sex work unless you are asked to
• find out what you can do to diminish institutionalized whorephobia on a larger scale (decriminalization of sex work, abolishing whorephobic systems)
• do not glamorize sex work, and do not demonize it
• understand that it’s not your place to tone police us, tell us to find another job, or treat us like social experiments (“what made you become a sex worker”, “i just want to UNDERSTAND you”, “don’t you ever feel bad”)
• pay for your sexual experiences, whether it’s buying porn or tipping strippers, don’t you dare say that you support sex workers if you’re a freeloader

how not to show sex workers your support:

• going into their tumblr ask box and sending, “i support you and your job!!!!” when literally no one fucking asked