The Population That Was Written Out Of Democratic Policies Is ‘Terrified’ – Aug 30, 2024 by Monica Sager
Within criticism against Trump’s campaign, there is also a dialogue around Stormy Daniels “to suggest that someone in the sex industry is a moral stain, something that reflects badly on one’s character,” Mike Stabile, the director of public policy for the Free Speech Coalition, told Newsweek.
“Sex workers are workers and humans and citizens who exist at every intersection of every racial, socioeconomic, gender, geographic and other imaginable identity,” Hopkins said.
Stabile also noted the censorship that the country is currently under around sex and gender.
“It’s not entirely surprising to see mentions of sex or sex work or sex workers’ rights disappear from the conversation,” Stabile said. “When you have one party that’s making wild accusations that anything related to LGBTQ content is pornography and that exposure to that information is similar to grooming or child abuse, it makes it much harder to have intelligent conversations about sex work. Everything’s entirely inflamed right now.”
That said, Hopkins and Rayne agree that people will continue within the profession no matter the election results. Rayne noted that a lot of people from marginalized communities—that make up a majority of the sex worker population—do not have the option to not be in the industry.
“Sex work isn’t going anywhere,” Hopkins said. “It will only change its shape.”