The Bay

How Scarlot Harlot Fought for Sex Worker Rights in SF


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This episode contains explicit language.

This Labor Day, Bay Curious brings us the story of Carol Leigh — better known as “Scarlot Harlot” — the woman who coined the term “sex work,” and the history of the sex worker rights movement in San Francisco.

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