Winter is especially harsh for sex workers. While there are parties everywhere to celebrate the end of the year, there is also an avalanche of crackdowns on brothels.
More and more forceful crackdowns are taking place in order for the police to reach its performance targets. Winter is always like walking on a tightrope.
This winter, when protesting railway workers are being fired and protesters are defined as illegal and violently persecuted, social obedience is assumed a normality and the weak are marginalised and discriminated against. We need to talk about the welfare of those who speak against unjustness now. More often than not, the ideas that people have about sex work result from the narratives created by the media or anti-prostitution activists and have little to do with reality.
Please note that the copyright for the photos and statement lies with Yeoni Kim and is not licensed under a Creative Commons License. Please share the link to this post with others but kindly refrain from downloading the photos and posting them out of context elsewhere. I would also like to ask bloggers to refrain from re-blogging this post. The reality is that unless you are a client, sex worker or middleman, it is not easy to gain access to the working environment of sex workers.
Intercourse is the last stage. When the client ejaculates, you remove the condom, wash the client again, dress him and send him on his way. The photos sum up the process. A lot of the process has been omitted in the photos, since it was hard to modulate the level of exposure. Please click on the cover image to view the photos as slide show. Press Escape to exit. The above video is an excerpt from the South Korean talk show WITH, which discusses social and economic issues from the perspectives of women.
