The Funambulist Issue #57

Night, Mistress: Sex Work and the Design of Time on the Clock of Capitalism

Nighttime is a site of invisibilized labor enacted by cleaning people, nurses, truck drivers, etc. Although associating sex work with the Night could be read as a dated cliche, it is not necessarily an innacurate one either, as Yin Q acknowledges in this text, in which they reflect on the various perceptions of time experience by sex workers and their clients. While the latter might experience a sort of suspension of time, sex workers’ time is both the capitalist one and its voracious demand for productivity, but also (particularly at night) a time of precariousness and vulnerability facing both structural and individual predations. Please note that some passages of this text are hard to read in the description of such a violence.

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