Sex Is Medicine With Devi Ward

Learn to understand how sex work is a caring, female dominated profession and a healing art. In this episode of Sex as Medicine we will discuss the misconceptions and stigma around the trade and how this impacts sex work law and workplace safety. Plus the different ways that governments and lawmakers put ideology over human life with respect to ‘moral’ issues like sex work and drug use; for example, a commonly-quoted statistic that ‘the average age of entry into the sex trade is 14 years old’ was taken from a study about MINORS in the street-based sex trade.Find out:The difference between decriminalization, legalization, full and asymmetrical criminalization. SESTA/FOSTA and censorship and how these laws violate everyone’s right to sexual expression, and put sex worker’s lives and livelihoods at risk.How sex trafficking is conflated with sex work, and other ways that statistics are intentionally misleading.The ways that anti-sex-work feminists erase the agency of sex workers, and how they creepily intersect w