Carol Leigh, the San Francisco activist who first coined the term “sex work,” has died. She died at the age of 71 while being treated for cancer. Carol Lane was the first to use the term “sex work” and worked for decades for prostitutes.
Carol’s work was dedicated to sex workers at a time when they were isolated and faced difficulties in society. Carroll first used the term prostitute in 1978 while she was attending an “Anti-Ponography Feminist Conference”. As a result, the term sex worker has started to be widely used in today’s society.
‘Carroll defined sex work as a professional problem. Carol was assigned to work for them with the attitude that it was neither a crime nor a sin. Millions of people in every country have worked to support their families. But society has always portrayed those workers as great criminals. San Francisco executor Kate Marquis mourned Carol’s death.
Carol has worked to boldly use the term prostitute in all positions of feminism and sexuality and to place them in places where they have historically been rejected.” “SWARM” mourned Carol’s death. SWARM, Sex Worker Advocacy and Resistance Movement, is an organization for sex workers founded in the UK in 2009.
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Leigh is the co-founder of BAYSWAN, the Bay Area Sex Worker Advocacy Network. Carol Leigh started this organization to address issues faced by sex workers, such as human trafficking, labor and civil rights violations.
Leigh has done a lot of individual and group work advocating and counseling sex workers in the United States and abroad. She has also worked on drug abuse and HIV. Leigh’s documentary on “Women’s Issues and Gay/Lesbian Issues” was worthy of the award.
Story Highlights: Activist Carol Leigh has died
