Werhun hopes to help destigmatise the world’s oldest profession with her “sex worker memoir/art book”. Photograph: Nicole BazuinIt’s been a year since Werhun came out publicly as a former sex worker, and to no longer have to hide her past is an enormous relief. “I think it’s a really good time to talk about sex work because we’re talking about sex more openly – sexual abuse, harassment, and rape. The news that I was a sex worker horrified her. But we never stopped talking, and I never stopped making my case that sex work was work, and that we ought to be afforded the same human rights as anyone else under the law.”

Source: The Guardian December 21, 2017 13:30 UTC