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Virtual Gallery Body of Workers Lets Sex Workers Celebrate Themselves

By M. Christian
May 6, 2022
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A digital art space founded by sex workers for sex workers.

A blue circle in the center of a cream background with a faint "BoW" written in the middle. There's an overlay of the Body of Workers logo in black text.

Spearheaded by sex worker activist Yin Q, Body of Workers is a censorship-free online environment where sex workers can express themselves through art.  

Showing in the virtual art space is free for sex workers who want to exhibit their work. Non-participants have to pay a fee to view the gallery, which helps to maintain the site.

For sex workers by sex workers

In an interview by Hacking//Hustling, Q recounted the project having spun off from her BDSM-positive and educational Kink Out events. 

Many of the sex workers participating in these events expressed an interest in a more permanent place where they could share their experiences. Especially as social media companies continue to use the SESTA/FOSTA anti-sex trafficking laws as an excuse to silence sex workers.

“My thoughts were to create a space online through art. A space for sex workers by sex workers,” Q told Hacking//Hustling. 

A much-need virtual environment

Q further likens Body of Workers to a much-needed virtual environment for those in the business and their allies: 

“It's a place behind the stripper stage, the den, or basically the bar where sex workers meet up. Where we come together to support each other, to talk smack, to share all of our stories, to share resources, to talk about health needs, refer lawyers. There's so much we do that's been done online that's been targeted and taken away from us.”

What Body of Workers is not is a promotional venue as advertising violates its community standards in addition to underage imagery, non-consensual activity, human trafficking, or race play. 

Though qualified sex workers can limit their work to ​​paying visitors and provide links to their social media sites for those interested in their services.

Vulnerable and dignified art

Body of Workers isn't a peep show or an opportunity to gawk. If anything, the artwork reveals more than stripping ever could.

For instance, “Evening Breeze Thru The Window” by trans queer artist Squiggles and Sluts is a moment of tenderness and longing drawn during a thunderstorm.  

While Mistress Phoenix's “Backstage Preparation” self-portrait is starkly honest, unabashedly proud, and deeply revealing.

Meanwhile, 0ther's “Homunculus” perfectly describes the objectification aspect of power exchange play. 

Come one, come all

In what seems like a predominantly unwelcome world, Body of Workers is also unapologetically accepting—stating that you can participate whoever you are or how you identify.

But there's another noble aspect to Body of Workers. Their pursuit of visibility and tolerance includes no longer making what they do illegal.

As the site eloquently puts it: “Decriminalization of sex work would make the world a safer and more equitable place for women, trans, queer, migrant, and other marginalized workers.”

Body of Workers is a step in the right direction, boldly and bravely showing the faces of the too often faceless.

Image sources: Body of Workers

M. Christian

M.Christian (they/them) loves nothing better than exploring the intersections of sex and technology—and speculating on the future of both. A highly regarded erotica writer they have six novels,12 collections, 100+ short stories, and 25 anthologies as an editor to their name. Their non-fiction regularly appears in many sites, but they're most proud of being a regular contributor to Future of Sex.

Of their erotic fiction, Tristan Taormino said that “M.Christian is a literary stylist of the highest caliber: smart, funny, frightening, sexy—there's nothing [they] can't write about… and brilliantly.”

Reflecting their unique ability to sympathetically and convincingly write for a range of genders and sexual orientations, their stories have appeared in multiple editions of Best American Erotica, Best Gay Erotica, Best Lesbian Erotica, The Mammoth Books of Erotica, and others. Their collection of gay erotic fiction, Dirty Words, was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award.

While a majority of their stories have been collected into books like Dirty Words, their fondness for combining sex and science fiction is clearly evident in collections that include Rude Mechanicals, Technorotica, Better Than The Real Thing, Skin Effect Effect, Bachelor Machine, and Hard Drive: The Best Sci-Fi Erotica of M.Christian.

As a novelist, M.Christian’s versatility is on full display with Running Dry, The Very Bloody Marys, Brushes, Painted Doll; and the somewhat controversial queer BDSM/horror/thrillers Finger's Breadth, and Me2.

M.Christian has worked on the industry’s production side as an Associate Publisher for Renaissance E Books and as a Publisher for Digital Parchment Services. The latter dedicated to celebrating the works of science-fiction legends such as William Rotsler, Jerome Bixby, Jody Scott, Arthur Byron Cover, Ernest Hogan, and James Van Hise.

Covering topics like BDSM safety, sexual education, senior sexuality concerns, queer and gender issues, plus reviewing a variety of sex tech products, M.Christian’s non-fiction has appeared on sites like Kinkly, Tickle.Life, Sexpert, Queer Majority, Sex for Every Body, and—of course—their ongoing work for Future of Sex.

If there’s anything M.Christian enjoys more than writing, it’s teaching. A featured presenter, sometimes with their friend Ralph Greco Jr, at national sex and BDSM events, they have lectured on kink play (with an emphasis on safety), polyamory, boosting sexual creativity, and erotica writing--for beginners or those wanting to go pro.

M.Christian is a cohost on two popular sex-education podcasts: Love’s Outer Limits with Dr. Amy Marsh and Licking Non-Vanilla with Ralph Greco, Jr.

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