The Most Realistic Sex-Worker Portrayals in Pop Culture, According to Sex Workers

This weekend, ‘The Deuce’ returns on HBO, but it’s far from the most realistic portrayal of sex work in TV and movies

Antonia Crane
Sep 8, 2018 · 9 min read

In the sordid HBO period-drama, The Deuce, streetwalkers rule the night. It’s gritty, greasy, 1970s red-light district NYC…

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Antonia Crane

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Writer, SW Forever, Professor, Cat Lady, Screenwriter, Creative Nonfiction Grand Prize Winner for PRISM International Journal, 2018;http://www.antoniacrane.com/

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