American Courtesans
Every single documentary or film or podcast or TV show or album or pamphlet or graffiti art or painting or sculpture or postcard I’ve ever come in contact with that talked about the lives of sex workers has been fascinating, because even when the presentation of the piece itself may be low-budget, kitsch, a little trashy [handheld cameras, bad editing, clearly derivative, etc], there’s no denying that the stories themselves, no matter how they’re told, are so compelling.
Before this film, I fully supported the stance that we need to decriminize sex work, but even though the film itself is pretty amateurish, a little shatterbrain, and aesthetically looks very “flat” like a made-for-TV special, at the end of the day, hearing sex workers discuss their trade is always fascinating, and this, like every other piece on the topic, will convince you that, yes, we need to decriminze sex work immediately. 900