Sex work as part of mental health and wellbeing services

Abstract

I am a sex worker and I would like to share my views on some ways sex work could be integrated into mental healthcare and welfare services. This is often considered a controversial topic addressing a not that urgent issue. There are several initiatives, projects policies aiming to control to minimize sex work, or the damage done by and done to sex workers. There is extensive discussion in the scientific literature why sex work is present, and why is it so constant. Regardless of the reasons, the earliest records mentioning prostitution as a profession date back to 2400 BCE, and it is undoubtedly present still. While discussing the cultural, social, psychological, and evolutionary reasons and underlying mechanisms why sex work evolved and persisted for so long would give valuable insights, addressing the current state of this industry is more essential.