Adult Entertainers Experience Stigma From Healthcare Providers

Added: 2026-06-05

[00:00:00]So, as a therapist, this is something I see all the time. And for a long period of time, I was running a group for sex workers um to come to and um many many many of the people who were in there were like, I can't find a therapist. I don't know if I can trust my doctor. Can I like talk to someone about prep and feel comfortable? And and you know, all of these different conversations because there are there is medical discrimination that happens. You know what you need also in mental health is someone who is going to see you with a full positive regard as a full person.

[00:00:31]And there are a lot of people who have a very especially I'm sorry but especially mental healthcare providers who have a lot of stigma towards sex. They have a lot of their own hang-ups about um human sexuality and they really have a tough time I think conceptualizing the person in front of them who's an adult entertainer and what they do and removing them from some of the stereotypes and ideas that they have about what this person is because they do this. And I think one of them is like the the entertainer as like a broken person. Um or the idea that women specifically would only engage in this kind of work if they were forced to. Um, but there are and and I just want to say this, there are many many types of people in this industry from many different backgrounds. Um, the vast majority of people that I've ever met or interacted with are here because they want to be here, because they love and enjoy their jobs. That many of them are very, very happy um, doing this kind of work.