Hi my name is Kali, I am a sex worker. I really believe that if we saw sex work as “decent work” or just work, we would face a lot less violence in our community. The word decent is even morally loaded, who gets to decide what is good or bad, or what’s moral or immoral? Often sex work has a lot of moral judgements attached to it from the outside world and that in turn creates violence towards us and stigmatisation. If we could see sex work as basically just a service and nothing more than that, I think that we would face a lot less violence. When we go to the hairdresser, it’s just a service, right? it’s not a good or bad thing, it’s just a service. If we could see sex work in the same way, I really believe that we could destigmatise our jobs and then in turn face less violence in our interpersonal relationships whether that be with our family, friends or intimate partners.