As monkeypox has proliferated in Los Angeles and across the country, sex workers have fretted about how to keep themselves safe from a virus that can cause excruciating lesions and force people to isolate for weeks.
With monkeypox on the rise, Lady Kay decided to hold off on meeting clients in hotel rooms or private dungeons.
senior outreach coordinator with Project S.H.E.E., a sex worker outreach program under the nonprofit Sistahfriends Women’s Counseling and Eldercare Management. After seeing how HIV reached other groups, “with monkeypox, they’re like, ‘We’re not falling for that.’”Global inequities and vaccine hesitancy force us to confront three health emergencies at the same time.
If clients push for more physical contact, “what we’re telling our sex workers to do is to be really upfront with them — ‘Look, given that there is an increased risk of monkeypox, we don’t want you to be at risk, we don’t want to be at risk. We’re changing things up,’” Whittington said. Sex Workers Outreach Project Los Angeles has tried to emphasize the term “intimate contact” rather than sexual contact, to make sure that sex workers understand the infection risks go beyond intercourse, Fuentes said.
“There isn’t a lot of literacy about it, so I wouldn’t be surprised if a customer was carrying it and was completely unaware,” Selena said in an email. As a dominatrix, she does not do anything that involves being penetrated or someone touching her genitals. But she knows that some other sex workers “generally don’t get much say over how their bodies are touched and how much skin is exposed — which puts them in a more dangerous position than me.”
L.A. County updated its guidelines on Monday, however, saying the vaccine could be administered to anyone who engaged in commercial or transactional sex in the previous two weeks — regardless of gender or sexual orientation.
Canada Latest News, Canada Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Harry Styles on Navigating Gay Sex Scenes in ‘My Policeman’: “It’s Tender and Loving and Sensitive”In a new Rolling Stone cover story, the pop superstar opens up on those Star Wars rumors and his future in Hollywood: 'I don’t imagine I’d do a movie for a while.'
Read more »
Sex offender breaks into Riverside elementary school campus, tries to assault girl in bathroom: PDLogan Nighswonger, a registered sex offender, was arrested after he allegedly jumped a 6-foot fence and broke into the girls' bathroom at McAuliffe Elementary School in Riverside.
Read more »
The Makeup Artist Who Meets a Hot Italian Waiter on VacationSexDiaries: 'We got €5 cocktails from the hot dog cart and he kissed and grabbed me in a way I hadn’t been touched, like, ever. Not even by the sex-crazed boyfriend I just left.'
Read more »
Harry Styles Explains Why the 'Tender' Gay Sex Scenes in 'My Policeman' Are So RevelatoryHarry Styles recently said his role in 'My Policeman' will break many stereotypes in the LGBTQ+ community, and we can't wait for the film to finally be released.
Read more »
Sex Matters in Treatment Outcomes for Pulmonary EmbolismWomen with PE who undergo percutaneous pulmonary artery thrombectomy have higher rates of morbidity and in-hospital mortality than men, a large, nationwide cohort study indicated.
Read more »
‘Dead body’ on tourist hot spot beach turns out to be sex dollThai police were flabbergasted after discovering that a “dead body” on a beach was actually a discarded sex doll.
Read more »