Autism is my super blessing! I'm a high-school valedictorian, college graduate, world traveler, disability advocate. I'm a Unitarian Universalist. I'm a Progressive Liberal. I'm about equal rights, human rights, civil & political rights, & economic, social, &cultural rights. I do servant leadership, boundless optimism, & Oneness/Wholeness. I'm good naked & unashamed! I love positive personhood, love your neighbor as yourself, and do no harm! I'm also appropriately inappropriate! My self-ratings: NC-17, XXX, X, X18+ & TV-MA means empathy! I publish shows at 11am! Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/antonio-myers4/support
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 84 days 4 hours 7 minutes
episode 72: I am in full support of the full decriminalization of adult sex work
"Negative effects of criminalization Health [edit] According to the World Health Organization (WHO), sex workers are considered one of the key populations at risk for HIV infection,[29] and sex workers who inject drugs are at even more risk due to unprotected sex, syringe sharing, alcohol or drug dependence, and violence.[30] Stigma, poverty, and exclusion from legal social services have increased their vulnerability to HIV infection...
episode 73: I am for all sex work laws that are all favorable to adult sex workers and the adult sex industry
"The Wolfenden Committee Report (1957), which informed the debate in the United Kingdom, states:
[the function of the criminal law is] to preserve public order and decency, to protect the citizen from what is injurious or offensive and to provide safeguards against the exploitation and corruption of others, .....episode 74: Sex Work is Real Work, and it's Time to Treat it That Way (I 100% approve of this)
"Sex workers aren’t always a part of the conversation about police brutality, but they should be. Police regularly target, harass, and assault sex workers or people they think are sex workers, such as trans women of color. The police usually get away with the abuse because sex workers fear being arrested if they report. If we lived in a world that didn’t criminalize sex work, sex workers could better protect themselves and seek justice when they are harmed...
episode 75: My conviction is that sex worker's rights are entitled to equal rights, sex workers' rights are human rights (my other conviction)
"There are many well-known and documented factors that coalesce causing HIV/AIDS to persist. These factors we as a society created.
"I've only walked out on a couple of bookings," Karma said. "One, because the client repeatedly tried to kiss me on the mouth despite not paying the additional fee. Another because he was just really rude and disrespectful. I realize I'm very lucky to have not had to deal with a forceful client, because many other girls have had bad experiences with this...
episode 76: Common myths about sex work, debunked by sex workers
"Prostitutes. Do they revolt you? In Revolting Prostitutes, a new book published by Verso, sex worker activists Juno Mac and Molly Smith ask why sex work elicits such polarized views. “Sex work is the vault in which society stores some of its keenest fears and anxieties,” write Mac and Smith. They argue that many non-sex-worker feminists, whose lives will not be materially affected by any legal changes to the industry, intrinsically view prostitution itself as an abomination...
episode 77: My grandma, the sex worker, and how I became a sex worker at age 52 and loved it
"If men have the right to pay for sex without judgment, then women also have the right to make sex their career."
--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/antonio-myers4/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/antonio-myers4/supportepisode 78: How to Treat Sex Workers, According to Sex Workers
"I’ve spent the years since transitioning out of the industry coming to terms with the complicated sexual experiences I’ve had in my lifetime...
episode 79: Sex Workers Are Not A Life Hack for 'Helping' Sexual Predators! The problem is power, not sexual proclivities.
"The idea that sex workers forfeit any right to assert consent or to be angered when the consent of other women is violated perpetuates the myth that sex workers are inherently morally compromised, or interested so single-mindedly on earning a profit from sexual services that she gives up her right to assert boundaries, agency, and solidarity with those whose consent is disregarded...
episode 80: List of federal political sex scandals in the United States
"Many sex scandals in American history have involved incumbent United States federal elected politicians, as well as persons appointed with the consent of the United States Senate.[1][2][3] Sometimes, the officials have denied the accusations, have apologized, or have lost their office in consequence of the scandal (e.g. by resigning, being defeated, or deciding not to run again).
This list is ordered chronologically...
episode 81: Migrant sex work
"Conflation of sex work and sex trafficking
Because prostitution can be an extremely political topic that represents differing political interests, the method of data collection and the use of collected data can vary in reliability.[12] While more pro-sex work academics, organizations, and activists make an explicit demarcation between sex workers and victims of sex trafficking, many other groups consider prostitution to inherently lack a voluntary component...