«Whoring Art: A Red Light Anthology»

🆔 ISBN: 9-789-08-3453-22-4
🗓️ 21st May 2026
👥 Edited: HXSSY
📔 Editorial: @spookstad 🛒 https://spookstad.boo/
[🔍 Search for the title, although it'll be towards the top for a while.]

> What happens when sex workers are in charge of their own image, labor laws, work places, and community spaces?

> Sex work everywhere is facing erasure from public life. In Amsterdam’s infamous Red Light District – De Wallen – the combined forces of gentrification, repression, hetero-cis sexism, and stigma are threatening its future. But sex workers have risen up, reclaiming the unconstrained genius and militancy of whores as the key to social transformation.

> This book brings together the voices of sex workers, queer and trans cultural workers, and Amsterdam’s squatting movement, to offer a radical vision of whoring liberated. Whoring Art: A Red Light Anthology is an abundant reimagination of sex work in the city.

> Edited by HXSSY, a former Red Light-based queer sex worker-centered collective led by Mercy St. J, Adanya Dunn, and Anna Torres.

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I think this one speaks for itself. ^~

Amsterdam's Red Light District gets talked about far and wide (often with a fair amount if poison) 'cept by those actually working there. As usual for sex work.

The book is just published — literally release date was three days ago, the website hasn't updated the “preorder” label yet even — so I can't add any sort of review, but I can confidently advance this is a much-needed reframing~

#SWBooks #SexWork #DeWallen #Amsterdam #RedLightDistrict #Anthology #NonFiction #HXSSY #Book #Books #Bookstodon #May2026

I just watched a ride-along police documentary series where a camera team follows a couple of cops around during their night shift in Hamburg, and, even though I know prostitution is legal in Germany, I find it quite fascinating how socially accepted and normalized it seems, at least in the red light district there. So much so that sex work customers who feel ripped off (as in they paid upfront but didn't receive the agreed on service or only parts of it) go to the cops and file a complaint, no sign of embarrassment whatsoever, and the cops then have to go to some brothel and try to sort it out, like "Uhm yeah so this guy said he paid for a blowjob and anal but only got the BJ, so, uhm, well, are you gonna give the anal money back or, err, are you gonna, uh, you know…"

EDIT: Another curious thing is that sex workers obviously don't use their real names, however they're registered so cops first gotta go to the brothel management and ask something like "We got a complaint, is there a person working here that goes by the name 'Sharona Thundercunt Fistybang Queen of Cocks' and where's her room?", in their most professional cop voice of course.

#prostitution #germany #hamburg #redlightdistrict #police

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"An intense hardcore backbeat, dual electric guitar version from a female point of view"

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Amsterdam is not a city where "anything goes." For instance, there are certain areas of town - including the Red Light District (photo) - where smoking cannabis in public will result in a hefty fine.

https://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/257-no-toking

#Amsterdam #nosmoking #notoking #sign #redlightdistrict #redlightdistrictamsterdam

RE: https://toot.community/@swanksalot/116298979797182301

rose-coloured glasses news now…#RedLightDistrict #NearInfrared #RedLightTherapy #RoseColouredGlasses