The Gray is Real: The Complicated Nuance of Consent in Sex Work

Consent is often framed as a clean, binary decision: yes or no. Thumbs up or down. Red light, green light. But in sex work—and, honestly, in most parts of life—it’s never that simple. Consent is a spectrum, and anyone who’s ever worked in the industry can tell you: the messiest parts of our labor live in the in-between.