Home: Survivors: For Sex Workers: The Power Book
This booklet is for sex workers only. It's about sexual assault in the context of sex work in Victoria. We hope you find it relevant to your work and to your sense of personal power. Sex workers know how powerful it is to be in charge of your own body, to assert MY BODY'S MINE! Control over what happens to your body is a most fundamental right. Ugly Mugs (and Ugly Bosses) try to take that control away, because they feel entitled. Well, they're not! Sex that is not negotiated is not part of the deal. Sexual assault is not part of the job. Too many sex workers have been made to feel, after an assault, that 'nothing could be done' because they are sex workers. This booklet encourages you to take action. The action may be as small as passing this booklet on to another sex worker or as large as standing up as a witness when someone who assaulted you is on trial. We hope the booklet inspires you to explore your options and encourages you to share what you know about safety with each other. The power we share is the power we have.
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Copyright Updated: 8 Sep 2003
The South Eastern Centre Against Sexual Assault acknowledges the traditional Aboriginal owners of country throughout Victoria. We pay our respects to them, their culture and their Elders past, present and future.