Playing the Whore by Melissa Gira Grant

A former sex worker discusses sex trade and argues that sex work should be understood as labor. The book criticizes both the "rescue industry" that seeks to abolish prostitution and the criminalization that puts sex workers at greater risk.

This book contains; activism, alcohol (referenced), alternate gender/sexual ideologies, controversial cultural, gender, political and social commentary, death (discussed), DEI, derogatory terms, further reading references, gender dysphoria/transgender, murder (discussed), porn (excessively discussed), profanity, prostitution/sex workers (excessively discussed), rape/sexual assault (discussed), sex trafficking (discussed) and violence (discussed).