Source: Sex and the State
by Cathy Reisenwitz
“I’ve been saying it for years now, that sex workers are the canaries in the coal mine of censorship, fascism, scapegoating, and moral panics. It’s never been about porn – for us or for them. The same people who are coming for the sluts, who are making the war on porn the new war on drugs, they will come for you too. The Nazis burned academic books about trans people for the same reason Alabama is legislating who ‘counts’ as a woman. It’s the same reason Meta is allowing Nazis while censoring nipples. It’s the same reason the right is redefining masculinity away from any trait that is remotely admirable or noble. A fascist cannot allow anyone to question the hierarchies of identity because they cannot withstand any level of honest interrogation.” (02/17/25)