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The real face of prostitution?

Australian sex workers are taking selfies and putting them up on Twitter to challenge the stereotype that all prostitutes are victims.
Last week an article was published in a popular online Australian women鈥檚 magazine to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the prostitute-meets-prince-charming film Pretty Woman. Sex worker Tilly Lawless decided to post a picture of herself on her Instagram under the hashtag #facesofprostitution to object to the article, which she claimed generalised sex workers and depicted all prostitution as harmful.
And then it began: a mass movement of sex workers posting images showing their faces to the world.
This week on Trending radio we speak to Tilly Lawless and Laila Mickelwait, the author of the original blog that so many Australian sex workers objected to on social media.