Natalie West is a Los Angeles based writer and educator. She worked as a professional Dominatrix while obtaining her PhD in Gender Studies. Her personal essays have appeared in Salon, Autostraddle, Kink Academy, Columbia Journal, and them. She moonlights as a sex work, BDSM, and queer community authenticity consultant for film and television.

Tina Horn hosts and produces the long-running kink podcast Why Are People Into That?! She is also the creator and writer of the sci-fi comic book series SfSx (Safe Sex). Her reporting on sexual subcultures and politics has appeared in Rolling Stone, Hazlitt, Glamour, Jezebel, and elsewhere; she is the author of two nonfiction books and has contributed to numerous anthologies including the queer horror collection Theater of Terror and the feminist essay collection Believe Me: How Trusting Women Can Change the World. Horn has lectured on sex worker politics and queer BDSM identities at universities and community centers all over North America. She is a LAMBDA Literary Fellow, the recipient of two Feminist Porn Awards, and holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction Writing from Sarah Lawrence. Originally from Northern California, she now lives in Brooklyn.

Introduction by Natalie West

SECTION I: STIGMA AND SILENCE

"That Sliver of Light" by Ashley Paige

"Bifurcating" by Juniper Fitzgerald

"Are You Safe?" by Reese Piper

"I Tell Men 'No' for a Living" by Natalie West

"Sex Working While Jewish in America" by Arabelle Raphael

"Your Mother Is A Whore: On Sex Work and Motherhood" by Jessie Sage

SECTION II: THE VEXED CONDITION OF SURVIVAL

"Wounds and Ways Through, A Personal Chronology of December 17" by Audacia Ray

"Florida Water" by Rebelle Cunt

"The Invisibles" by Ignacio G. Hutía Xeiti Rivera

"What I Have to Do" by suprihmbé/thotscholar

"The Alchemy of Pain: Honoring the Victim-Whore" by anonymous

SECTION III: THE INTERSECTIONS OF INTERPERSONAL AND STATE VIOLENCE

"Victim-Defendant: Women of Color Complicating Stories About Human Trafficking" by Christa Marie Sacco

"How to Rape a Sex Worker" by AK Saini

"Hustling Survival: Stories of Self-Defense, Criminalization, and Conditional Freedom" by Brit Schulte, Judy Szurgot and Alisha Walker

"Undercover Agents" by Norma Jean Almadovar, with introduction by Vanessa Carlisle

"The New Orleans Police Raid That Launched A Dancer Resistance" by Melissa Gira Grant

SECTION IV: ESTABLISHING BOUNDARIES, OBTAINING CONSENT

"Good Faith" by Tina Horn

"A Family Affair" by Dia Dynasty

"When She Says Woman, She Does Not Mean Me" by Lorelei Lee

"We All Deserve To Heal" by Yin Q

SECTION V: SAFE AND SANE WORKPLACES

"What Media Coverage of James Deen's Assaults Means For Sex Workers" by Cyd Nova

"Red Flags" by Lauren Kiley

"Demystifying Porn, for Pornographers" by Lina Bembe

"From Victim to Activist: A Marginalized Performer Navigating Sexual Assault" by Rooster X

"Dispatch from the California Stripper Strike" by Antonia Crane

SECTION VI: COMMUNITY AND HEALING

"Asking for Help" by Erin Carroll

"A Letter to My Love" by April Flores and Milcah Halili

"The Belly of the Beast" by Lola Davina

"Going from Homeless Trans Youth to Holistic Caregiver" by Ceyenne Doroshow with Zachary Drucker

SECTION VII: #METOO IN PRAXIS

"Saving Face" by Vanessa

"How Not To Be An Asshole When Your Sex Worker Partner Is Assaulted At Work" by Maggie McMuffin

"Searching for Foxy" by Goddess Cori

"How to Build A Hookers Army" by Vanessa Carlisle