ABSTRACT
This chapter explores participants’ concerns and practices around staying safe. The use of digital technologies to enhance sex worker safety mirrors findings from other research, whereby technologies are combined with offline methods to stay safe, what R. Campbell et al. called blended safety repertoires. The literature suggests that the environment and spaces where sex work operates shapes the risks and protections for sex workers. The sex work community were a key resource for staying safe. The Ugly Mugs systems that are used around the world based on the sharing of information follow similar practices in the community of sex workers who sell sex to women. Dominant discourses of sex work as violence against women have worked to obscure and render unimaginable the fear of and actual violence clients experience. A key concern that was expressed by both male and female sex workers was selling sex to couples.
