How did you first developInitially, the idea came from this website I saw where they trick young women into agreeing to sex work via social media. Some of the women are actually sex workers, but a lot of the women on there are influencers, actresses, dancers … They say, “Here’s ten grand. Fly to Turkey, Dubai,” then they screenshot the whole thing. They shame them by putting them up on this website. It made me feel so compelled to understand who these women were.
. Which is a total savior complex, but that is the tricky thing. It isn’t for everybody, and watchingThe show has been out in the U.K. for a while now — what has the response there been like? Sasha, in particular, is coming to terms not just with entering the world of sex work but with the ways she was exploited as a child. How did that come about?
It’s so prevalent. I didn’t actually have to look for it. It was in the fabric of everything. Even on some escorting websites, when I was looking for women to talk to, it would say, “No Asian or Black men,” from the sex worker. They’re actively like, “We don’t take Asian or Black customers.” That was the first time that I was like,. The racism didn’t surprise me, but the blatant nature of it, how open it was, did a bit.
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