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    My Favorite Portrayals of Sex Work in Media

    Emma stone as Bella Baxter in Poor Things. She is in a long yellow cape in a snowy scene. Behind her is Mark Ruffallo as her jilted lover. He is sitting on a park bench.

    I don’t watch many movies or TV shows that have portrayals of sex work. Most characterizations of this profession in the media contain stereotypes ranging from offensive at worst to fetishizing or sensationalizing at best. The most common portrayals include a hooker or stripper dying, typically in some brutal and disturbing way. Or, the sex worker is portrayed as a…