ABSTRACT
The depictions of sex work and sex workers have long been a subject of fascination in cinema and these cultural products produce a spectacle for audiences, reinforcing prevailing narratives that stigmatize and marginalize. Sex worker-made media is produced and controlled by people who have experience in sex work, which is any person of any gender who engages in sexual/erotic acts for remuneration. Historically in different cultural settings prostitution and sex work have been associated with the creation of art and culture. Sex workers represent themselves as connected social and political beings through this documentation of conventions and performances, creating family albums of the people involved, remembering the important issues of the time period and the particular cultural forms used to celebrate and protest. Sex worker self-representation for the most part transcends and eschews the extremely limited field imagined in the “sex trafficking” genre.
