Sex Work in San Francisco, Then and Now

It seems little has changed in the 100-plus year movement for sex workers’ rights.

Cirrus Wood
The Bold Italic
Published in
8 min readApr 12, 2017

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Andre Shakti—dominatrix, activist

A version of this story originally appeared on BETA, an affiliate of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation.

Three things made San Francisco: fortune, thievery and sex. From the old mission days to the Barbary Coast to the Summer of Love to…

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