"With unflinching, brutal honesty, Sterry records the seedy glamour, dirty little secrets and hilarious backstage madness of a world spinning out of control. Unzipped is the eye-popping story of the ugliest man at Chippendales, and his search for happiness in a sea of G-strings, desperate housewives behaving badly and 25 of the most beautiful men in the world."
Our Lives Matter:Sex Workers Unite for Health & Rights
August 2008
Open Society Institute Anna-Louise Crago
Our Lives Matter: Sex Workers Unite for Health and Rights highlights the creative ways in which sex workers in eight countries have organized to defend their human rights and health.
Sex Worker Education and Advocacy Taskforce, South Africa
Stella, Canada
Urban Justice Center's Sex Workers Project, United States
Our Lives Matter describes how these groups have challenged unfair incarceration, violence, extortion, eviction, and humiliation; fought for equal access to health care services; and called for sex work to be officially recognized as work.
Elena Reynaga speaks on Sex Work Plenary at AIDS2008
"We don’t want to sew,
we don’t want to knit,
we don’t want to cook.
We want better work conditions."
So we demand the following:
• Abolish all legislation that criminalises sex work
• Investigate and condemn violence against sex workers.
• Oppose red-light districts that force us into ghettos and promote violence and discrimination.
• Abolish mandatory HIV testing. Abolish the sanitary control card among sex workers.
• Promote voluntary, free and confidential testing including pre and post-test counselling.
• Ensure universal access to prevention, testing, treatment and high-quality care.
• Provide access to healthcare among migrant and mobile sex workers.
• Provide access to friendly integral healthcare services, without stigma and without discrimination.
• Ensure the availability of resources for community-based organisations. No more intermediary organisations.
But above and beyond all this, we want sex work to be recognised as ‘work’.
We want to be free to do, free to make mistakes and free to learn.
Free to decide what we, as sex workers, need.
Free from repression – this is the best way to build an effective response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
Sex workers are not the problem; we are part of the solution.
Read more for the full text from the AIDS 2008 sex work plenary August 6, 2008 Written by Elena Reynaga and Anna Louise Crago
Listen to the presentation by Elena Reynaga (Spanish) here . (external link taken from RedTraSex Website download 56MB)
David Henry Sterry, 
Our Lives Matter:Sex Workers Unite for Health & Rights
Listen to the presentation by Elena Reynaga (Spanish)