Tilly Lawless

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The Hook Up · Beyond exploitative or empowering: Tilly Lawless on sex work and feminism · 7 Mar 2021 podcast

way more women clients.

So I think that's the first thing that we need to like rephrase is that it's not just like heterosexual sex that it's occurring.

I mean, the tempting thing that people often do is to like weaponize disabled clients and be like, oh, you know, you've got to, you have to be sympathetic to sex work clients because what if they're disabled and they can't have sex otherwise?

Do you know what I mean?

Which I feel like is really sort of often really insulting to disabled people because it assumes that no one would want to have sex with them unless they were paid.

So I don't feel like that's the most

helpful outlook to take.

But for me, the way I look at it is I think that sex is sex.

And it's not always just about sex.

I think often it's about human touch.

And I think often straight men only know how to be physically intimate with someone through sex.

Hugging and things like that isn't as socially acceptable for them or lying in bed cuddling someone.

So I think

often they access those other things through sex and through a sex worker.

I think that we just need to like remember that like touch and human connection and all those kinds of things is a part of being alive and is a need for a lot of people.

And I personally think it's perfectly acceptable to pay for those things.

And I also think it's, you know, in the busy lives, a lot of people live like it's often easier to pay someone for sex than to be in a relationship, you know, which is,

the other kind of acceptable way that people have sex, you

Yeah, totally.

I think that's true.

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