Juxtaposition on prostitution

Artifact 1:

Who says a zombie apocalypse has to stop a working girl from making a little cash? Guide Lola past hordes of undead zombie hookers to collect weapons and cash AND guide your still-living Johns back to your trailer for a little “business.” Fulfill the night’s quota, hop in your trailer and do it again the next night.

via Free Online Game – Zombie Hooker Nightmare from Adult Swim.

Artifact 2:

One feeling is that white women are in the club as a side thing: a hobby, for a good workout, to pay for college, etc. While women of color in the business are in it as a long-term career and to support children. Women of color also talk about how difficult it is to get into a strip club in the first place. Pornography already has a reputation for producing films with many racist themes. These are just some basic examples of racism that affect sex workers. It pits workers against each other and makes it nearly impossible to forge a truly cohesive community. I will explore this topic more in the future but for this post I would like to elaborate on how sex workers respond to clients who are men of color and how this directly affects our ability to fight against racism.

via Womanist Musings: The Colour of Money.

Artifact 1:

X – Tempt nearby Johns and make them follow you.

Touching Johns – Makes them follow you.

Guide Johns back to the trailer to turn tricks. Reach the night’s quota and enter the trailer to progress to the next level.

via Free Online Game – Zombie Hooker Nightmare from Adult Swim.

Artifact 2:

One of the most memorable part of working at that club was my experience dancing for white men. I am light-skinned but my features often prompted men to ask if was Latina or Asian. An affirmative answer nearly ALWAYS produced a response of “How exotic” “Ooh I love Latinas, they are so….(insert ridiculous comment here)”. I also noted that white men propositioned me for sex much more often than men of color and were much more persistent about it. Once again, a boring stereotype that is reproduced often in the media and carried out in the club (and online, in the street, etc) which paints women of color as exotic, and excessively sexual. Such bodies are so promiscuous that they are easy to buy – the sale of these bodies is assumed, even.

via Womanist Musings: The Colour of Money.

Artifact 1:

You don’t have to touch Johns to get them to follow you. Pressing X will get almost any John you can see on the screen to follow you as long as zombies aren’t currently attacking them.

via Free Online Game – Zombie Hooker Nightmare from Adult Swim.

Artifact 2:

In order for us to effectively fight racism and racist institutions, we must reach out to sex workers and begin a dialogue. This dialogue is necessary because sex workers encounter so much racism (in such blatant forms) and reproduce these racist behaviors as well. Without a connection to anti-racism efforts, change will not happen in this industry-not for sex workers, not for our clients and not for our community.

via Womanist Musings: The Colour of Money.

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