The Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn opens a special exhibition on the cultural history of sex work, based on a collaboration with sex worker researchers, based on the principle “Nothing About Us Without Us.” From the museum’s online announcement: “The exhibition highlights the creative and artistic role that sex workers also play. To tell a cultural history of sex work means entering a territory permeated by moralizing and highly political discourses. Media and popular culture all too readily resort to one-dimensional stereotypes when portraying sex workers. Public debate oscillates between moral condemnation and positions that categorically classify all forms of sex work as exploitation.” The exhibit runs through October 25 and will later travel to other German cities.
Sex Work Exhibition Opens at German Museum
