14. Dominating Pleasure: High Job Satisfaction among Professional Dominatrixes

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Dedication v
3. Contents vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I: The Internet Changes the Game
6. 1. Punishing Sex: How Financial Discrimination and Content Moderation Harm Online Sex Workers 17
7. 2. Sugar Dating: What Counts as Sex Work 31
8. 3. “Bitch Wanted a Woke White Medal”: Racialized Emotional Labor and White Guilt in the Digital Sex Industry 41
9. 4. “I Didn’t Know I Was into Trans Men until I Saw You”: Trans Men Reimagined through Pornography 50
10. 5. Pornography with Heart: The Holistic Potential of Feminist Porn 61
11. Part II: Intersections
12. 6. “It’s Normal for Me”: Structuring Sex Work around Disability 73
13. 7. “I Was Too Fat”: Anti-Fatness as a Workplace Access Issue 83
14. 8. The “Big Beautiful Women” Awards: Fat Latinas in the Porn Industry 94
15. 9. “Looking White”: Sex Workers of Color Hacking White Supremacy 108
16. 10. “Whorearchy”: Racial Earnings Disparities in Webcam Modeling 119
17. 11. Sex Worker Scholars: Navigating Outness in Academic Spaces 130
18. 12. Ethical Sexual Services: Sexual Assistance for People with Disabilities 141
19. Part III: The Work of Sex Work
20. 13. “My Brand Is Girl Next Door”: Authenticity and Privilege among Transfeminine Porn Performers 153
21. 14. Dominating Pleasure: High Job Satisfaction among Professional Dominatrixes 163
22. 15. Not a Client, Not a Sex Worker: Dismantling the “Pimp” Stereotype 174
23. 16. Masturbating to Capitalism: How Findom Challenges and Reinforces Patriarchal and Capitalist Relations 185
24. 17. Gifts of Desire: The Erotics of Gift Exchange and Sex Worker Mutual Aid 196
25. Part IV: The State and Criminalization
26. 18. “Beat ’Em at Their Game”: The Strategic Deployment of “Victimhood” as Resistance 211
27. 19. The Harms of Helping: An Indigenous Perspective on the Industrial Rescue Complex 222
28. 20. “The Police Don’t Protect Us!”: Why Sex Workers Don’t Trust the Police 233
29. 21. Raids and Rescues: The Effects of Prostitution-Diversion Programs on Asian Women Massage Parlor Workers 243
30. 22. Disability at the Revolving Door: Perspectives on Mental Illness and Predatory Policing 252
31. Part V: Sex Worker Activism
32. 23. After Decriminalization: A Labor-Rights Agenda for the Sex Industry 265
33. 24. It’s Time to Sue for What: We Want The New Legal Tools for Strippers 275
34. 25. Taking Our Words Right out of Our Mouths: The Appropriation of Sex Worker–Rights Language 285
35. 26. “May There Be Evidence of My Life at My Disposal”: Israeli Sex Workers Dismantling the “Whore” Stigma 293
36. Part VI: New Directions and Perspectives
37. 27. The Field of Sex Work Studies: Past, Present, and Future 305
38. 28. Were the Feminist Sex Wars Inevitable? Smashing the Binary 314
39. 29. Following the Money: Kenyan Sex Workers’ Strategies during Crisis 324
40. 30. “I’ll Take What I Can Get”: Transmasculine and Nonbinary Sex Workers, Sexual Capital, and Trans Joy 335
41. 31. Cybrothel: The World’s First A.I. Sex Worker 347
42. Acknowledgments 359
43. Bibliography 361
44. About the Contributors 399
45. Index 409