Includes bibliographical references and index.

Tamar: playing the harlot -- Girls, girls, girls: media and cultural portrayals -- Her strut: it's all about agency -- Pour some sugar on me: money -- R-e-s-p-e-c-t: poverty, discrimination, and mental illness -- Hadassah: such a time as this -- You shook me all night long: it's just sex -- Crazy train: customers and the cycle of sex work -- Paradise city: the types of sex work -- Rahab: from madam to mensch -- Roxanne: advocacy -- So hott: survival -- Closer: willing participants in their own liberation -- The woman at the well: Jesus was a harm reductionist -- American woman: taking care of yourself -- Your own personal Jesus: harm reduction 101.

Paying for sex? engaging in the oldest profession?-is everywhere, even in your church. The factors leading individuals into sex work are as varied as hair colors, yet sex workers are viewed as powerless individuals who must be rescued. I Heart Sex Workers offers another perspective, one where the characters defy stereotypes and solutions are hard to find. Author Lia Scholl firmly believes the Christian response to sex work should be one of building agency for women, through education, through fighting injustice, by listening to the voices of sex workers. I Heart Sex Workers examines the forces leading individuals into prostitution, whether through coercion, choice, or circumstance. And it provides a Christian response, answering the question, Are you my neighbor? How do we respond to woman trading sex for a place to live tonight when she asks, Where will I sleep? This book discusses these issues and many more.

Print version record. Print copy is 167 pages.