Modern Whore: One Sex Worker’s Story & Insights

Andrea Werhun, author of Modern Whore, joins Jess and Brandon to share her personal story as a sex worker, performer and author. She discusses her beautiful journey into sex work and how her work has shifted during physical distancing and isolation. They also discuss:

What makes an escort enjoy the experience with a client

How sex workers and their clients build trust and connection in their relationships

Andrea’s Hire-A-Muse packages

The coming out process and Andrea’s story of sharing her truth with her Mom & Dad

How to be an ally to sex workers and how to be sex worker-positive

Jess’ experience with sex workers at her first SAR

Sex work as a healing profession

The benefits of sex work

Insights from sex work that can benefit all daters

Stripping vs. Escorting and the whorearchy 

The importance of labour rights for sex workers

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Modern Whore: One Sex Workers Story & Insights

00:00:05 - 00:05:02

You're listening to the sacs with Dr Jess podcast sacks and relationship advice you can use tonight Welcome to the sex with Dr. Just podcast I'm your co host Brandon. Wear here with my lovely other half Dr Jess. How's it going good? Good happy to be back chatting with you. I I know you you say you always feel nervous when we begin these podcast but feel way more relaxed after and I think we could both use that right now. Yeah I mean these are source of therapy for me. I hope you don't mind. I'm not paying you therapy session here. I don't think I'm the one therapist using you. Well it's it's It's it's self therapy then self therapy had just kind of talking about what's going on. Yeah it feels good to get it off. Your chest feels good. I mean especially for somebody who doesn't have a lot of relationships with people where I can open up the way that I do here with thousands and thousands of listening in today. I'm excited because we're going to be speaking with the author of modern. Hor and we need more sex workers on this podcast because if we're talking sex education if we're talking about relationships this is a big part of sexuality and often ignored often kind of treated as a footnote and. I think that many of us live in this world of an kind of a divide of US versus them right You know maybe we have interactions with sex workers in their professional capacity Maybe we have friends who are sex workers and we don't even realize it and they're new. There are many sex workers in my field who are educators and who are also therapist and hearing the stories of how stigma adversely affects their life their work. Their friendships is heartbreaking. But on the flip side. I think we're going to be having a conversation about the positivity about all of the wonderful outcomes of sex work and you know I I have always in my adult. Life regarded sex work.