The Client Guide & Ask Ada

If you read our blog regularly you've probably noticed that we have a section for clients that features articles about how to be a better client, covering topics like booking an escort, hygiene, and butt play.

Well, now we are adding a dedicated section to the client dashboard that showcases these articles, alongside an excellent series of videos on consent and etiquette. We've created these with Georgie over at The Satisfaction Project and are really excited to launch them!

Who is Ada? Glad you asked! Ada is a new writer on the blog here to answer all your questions about tech, the online world, and staying safe in it. Ada says it best in her bio:

I'm your shoulder to cry on when technology gets you down. No question too silly, no hypothetical too far fetched! Together we will learn to leverage devices, systems and platforms to your benefit.

Ada is also going to be posting regularly about important topics like multi factor authentication and how to avoid being phished. Her first piece is live and totally worth a read!

Other changes

• Fixed a bunch of typos
• Updated our policies and fixed typos in them (the typos, they never end!)
• Improvements to our new onboarding flow

In the community

There's loads going on in the community and we want to highlight some things each month in our release notes to help bring more awareness to them. Are you involved in an event or organisation, or know of one, we should highlight? Reach out and let us know!

• CAT SWAC are rallying for decriminalisation on the 7th of October from 6pm, outside the Montreal Courthouse. See CAT SWAC insta for more.
• The Margins are accepting submissions and pitches for their Black and Asian Feminist Solidarity Column. Head over to their insta for more details.
• @punnsart and the Prostitution Information Centre (Netherlands) are teaming up to bring ya'll Expoparty from 9pm-late on the 5th of November. Tickets here!  
• SWAN Waterloo are hosting a sex worker drop the 2nd and 4th Thursday in October from 4pm-7pm.

Recurring events

• St James Infirmary are running a SW writers circle every Thursday from 2:00pm - 4pm PST. Invite via the "Sex Workers we love you button" found here.
• Magenta in Perth are running meet ups the first Thursday of every month. DM them on instagram for more info.
• Sober Sex Workers is running a monthly Zoom meeting every second Sunday at 7pm CST. Request a meeting link via the @sobersexworkers instagram account.
• Sex Worker breakfasts Wednesdays 11am -2pm Least London E1. Contact swblondon@protonmail.com for more details.

In the media

• Prostitution laws, not sex work, source of ‘structural inequality,’ says lawyer - The Canadian Press
• Canadian sex workers call for safer working conditions - Emily Douglas
• Pornhub’s Instagram Is a Major Casualty in the War on Porn - Adam Manno
• Queensland strippers make disturbing allegations of wage theft, exploitation and sexual assault in clubs - Phoebe Hosier
• Constitutional challenge of Canada's sex work laws begins in court - Caryn Ceolin
• The US’s attitude towards sex work needs to change - Justin Cory
• Why sex workers are taking the government to court to reform the law - Saba Eitizaz
• Why Dating Is Hell for So Many Porn Stars—Thanks to Dating Apps - Cherie DeVille
• Sex Workers Are Using NFTs to Take Control of Their Content - Eric Jame Beyer
• Gay man who became a sex worker at 18 explains why criminalisation makes everything worse - Patrick Kelleher
• How the cost of living crisis is endangering sex workers - Ella Glover
• In Kolkata’s Red-Light Area, Women Talk About Abuse Versus Agency, Sex Work as a Choice - Sanhati Banerjee
• Yangon sex workers risk violence to feed their families - Moe Taw Dar Swe
• ABC podcast draws back the curtain on Australia’s sex industry - Sarah Patterson
• Sex work: a contemporary identity rooted in labour - Natasha Darling
• The sex worker teaching TikTok about legal brothels - Rebecca Jennings
• If we own our own bodies, why should sex work be illegal? - John Stossel
• Photographing the sex industry from the inside - Emma Russell
• Plans are under way to decriminalise sex work by 2024 - SABCNews
• How Sex Workers Of Shonagachi Are Reclaiming Public Space With Their All-Woman Durga Puja - Rakhi Bose
• Porn NFTs: Web3 Prepares to Fully Support Sex Workers - Jayanti
• Differing paths of sex worker Melissa Todd and university classmate, Prime Minister Liz Truss - Melissa Todd
• A sex worker reviews Good Luck to You, Leo Grande - Jaimie Tomas
• Why Are Sex Workers Forced to Wear a Financial Scarlet Letter? - Maggie Macdonald
• Ask Liara: A sex worker’s guide to living, loving, and fucking - Liara Roux
• How this Australian creative is using OnlyFans to kickstart her fashion career - Caitlin Cefai
• I worked as a babysitter by day and a sex worker by night - Jash E.
• At Stripper Financial Planning, Sex Workers Take Center Stage - Kaitlin Keating
• I’m An Escort In An Open Marriage. Here’s What It’s Taught Me About Relationships - Mia Lee
• The Fight to Overturn FOSTA, an Unconstitutional Internet Censorship Law, Continues - Aaron Mackey
• 'Soaring living costs means I'll have to do more on OnlyFans' - Christina O'Neill
• Let’s Talk About The Things Bollywood Misses When Portraying Sex Workers On Screen - Snigdha Nalini Oreya
• The First Time I Got Paid for Sex I Did Everything Wrong - Jenny DeMilo
• AI Text-to-Imae Generated Porns are Putting Sex Workers at Existential Crisis - Satavisa Pati
• A Sex Trafficking Survivor Is Turning Her Trauma Into Porn - Aurora Snow
• ‘Cost of living forced me into sex work – but now I’m financially free’ - Jaymelouise Hudspith
• Pornhub Asks Instagram Why Kim Kardashian Can Post Ass, But They Can't - Gigi Fong
• Sex Worker Schools Us On How America's Legal Brothels Work - Tayla