Trans-actional Sex: A Review of the Working Guys Anthology
- Annie Dabb
- Jan 6
- 6 min read
WORDS by ANNIE DABB
Published and edited by Jack V. Parker earlier this year, Working Guys: A Transmasculine Sex Worker Anthology, is perhaps the first of its kind on the market. By contrast, its authors are far from it.
Whether due to the failure of researchers to accurately report on transmasculine sex workers in a way that doesn’t induce mistrust or discomfort at how their experience will be reported, or the oversaturation of the porn and sex industry with the monetised bodies of cis-women, the transmasculine perspective remains critically underexplored and underrepresented in both theoretical research and anecdotal evidence.
Working Guys confronts this fundamental lack head on, through a series of submissions authored by transmasculine sex workers themselves who have turned their hand to writing to create something that offers so much more to readers than a mere collection of stories. In fact, to describe this text as an anthology seems almost reductive for the place at the table that its publication has helped to forge for transmasculine sex workers.
