When Juno Mac and Molly Smith, two 30-year-old friends who started out in the sex industry a decade ago, wrote a book, some readers of the first draft were “almost offended”. Not because the book was about sex, but because it wasn’t.
“There’s this real expectation that we would write some form of memoir,” says Smith, who I speak to remotely alongside Mac as co-authors of Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight For Sex Workers’ Rights. Mac smiles: “This is not a sexy book.”
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