https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bn5973/pread-magazine-provided-a-smart-funny-lifeline-for-sex-workers-around-the-world-069

What was the sex worker community like when $pread first formed?

Aimee: It was smaller than it is today and very fragmented—pockets of activism in a few liberal cities, but not much connection between them. The mainstream sex worker rights movement at the time was dominated, for the most part, by a more privileged cross-section of sex workers: white, cisgender women with relative class privilege who mostly came from a "sex-positive feminist" background and understood sex work as "empowering for women"—which is problematic in a number of ways, not least because not all sex workers are women. I think it's fair to say that many of us—$pread's staff and editors—came from that background and so did many of our early contributors.