Treena Orchard Knihy

The book explores the detrimental effects of criminalization on sex workers' health, safety, and rights across China, Canada, and the U.S. It highlights how punitive legal frameworks foster isolation, mistrust of authorities, and hinder access to safe work and housing. Through ethnographic research, it reveals the harsh realities of police harassment and stigma, while also examining how sex workers navigate these challenges through strategies like arrest avoidance and mutual aid. Additionally, it addresses the ethical dilemmas faced by researchers in criminalized environments.

Jane Goodall meets Carrie Bradshaw in Sticky, Sexy, Sad – an insightful, empowering memoir by an anthropologist who lays her own life bare as she explores the cultural matrix of digital courtship.