Derided, defaced and even decapitated, Loui Fraser’s sex worker sculpture “Joy” was eventually hounded out of Darlinghurst in the 1990s. Now she’s coming back.
Named Joy, the sculpture was created by Loui Fraser as a tribute to women and to the history of East Sydney. She was, in fact, the world’s first statue of a sex worker on public display. The statue also pays homage to NSW, which was the first state in the world to decriminalise sex work.