Thierry Schaffauser is a sex worker and president of the GMB- IUSW, Adult Entertainment branch
June 2010
Whorephobia affects all women
Thierry Schaffauser
Thierry Schaffauser: Women are brought up to think of sex workers as 'bad women'. It stops them taking advantage of many freedoms
April 2010
Not all sex workers are victims
Thierry Schaffauser
Thierry Schaffauser: New laws on prostitution are sexist – being paid for sex does not objectify me any more than working in a low wage job did
March 2010
Sex workers need power not brothels
Thierry Schaffauser
Thierry Schaffauser: Reopening brothels seems ideal, but French sex workers have fought hard to remain independent from pimps and state control
Sex workers are not criminals
Cath Elliott and Thierry Schaffauser
Cath Elliott and Thierry Schaffauser: Women working in the sex trade need protection, not prosecution – which is why soliciting should be decriminalised
Thread of the day
Time for porn stars to self-organise
Thierry Schaffauser
Thierry Schaffauser: The gay porn industry, like its straight counterpart, is normalising unsafe sexual practice and ripping off its actors
February 2010
Let sex workers advertise
Thierry Schaffauser
Thierry Schaffauser: Julie Bindel's call to ban advertisements for the sex industry is an illogical, impractical attack on sex workers
