Hack Triple j: Sex work in a pandemic

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With strip clubs and brothels forced to remain closed through all three stages of the government’s roadmap to recovery, sex workers are having to find new ways to serve their clientele to earn a living. Interview with Fiona Patten 26/5/20.

 

 

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Fiona Patten is the founder and leader of the Reason Party and a Member of the Victorian Legislative Council for the Northern Metropolitan region. She came to politics after 20 years of lobbying for the rights of organisations involved in the sexual rights movement – including small businesses, sex workers, HIV/AIDS organisations, adult media and online anti-censorship groups. Before that she was an established independent fashion designer with her own label called Body Politics.

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