by Nathalie Graham • Feb 11, 2021 at 9:30 am
Clients will often ghost if a sex worker talks about wearing a mask. WIN-Initiative
Solana Sparks, a Seattle-area sex worker, is still working in-person during the pandemic. She s tried to implement her own COVID protocols into her work, such as taking a COVID test every other week and asking clients to sanitize or shower before she gets down to business, but those precautions amount to stop-gap measures when she s exchanging saliva and other bodily fluids, she said.
Plus, most clients disappear on her when she asks about masking up, so she usually works maskless.
Meet the Founders of the Molly House, Where Masculine-of-Center Sex Workers Are Mobilizing Online
Shaan Lashun and TT Baum never expected that a conference presentation would lead them to create an organization together. The self-described “co-founders, co-directors, co-everythingers” now host a critical space in a sex worker movement that has long been missing. Molly House Project started in 2019 as an organizing and social platform for masculine-of-center sex workers, including cisgender men, transgender men, transmasculine people, and anyone who identifies as male or was assigned male at birth.
Baum and Lashun have been longtime activists in the sex worker movement. They both intimately know the needs that come with being invisible, vulnerable, and unable to get support. In starting Molly House Project, they are working to change that.