Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez issued a press statement last week prominently highlighting her partnership with religiously-inspired anti-porn lobby NCOSE, an organization that seeks to criminalize all sex work and eradicate adult content, and that has an extensive, well-documented history of championing state censorship and opposing LGBTQ+ rights.
A New York-based paramedic who turned to OnlyFans to help make ends meet during the pandemic, and was subsequently outed by the New York Post, had her story published by Rolling Stone. That account went viral and prompted this Twitter response from U.S. Rep. (NY-14) Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: "Sex work is work."
Legislator Ro Khanna (D-CA), along with one other representative and two senators, introduced a bill Tuesday to study the secondary effects of SESTA/FOSTA on sex workers' safety.
