#SEGGSED: SEX, SAFETY, AND CENSORSHIP ON TIKTOK Main Menu #SEGGSED: SEX, SAFETY, AND CENSORSHIP ON TIKTOK Author Bio DEDICATION TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Sex Worker Pedagogies for Porn Literacy CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION Background and Literature Review The Study of Porn The Sex Wars and Sex Work Criminalization Cyberfeminist Design Justice Methods CHAPTER 2: HISTORY AND CONTEXT About TikTok Sexual Moral Panics and the Construction of Innocence Defining Pornography Sex Education: A Brief History Competing Discourses of Safety CHAPTER 3. DIGITAL VIOLENCE Feminist Hacking Learn More About Technofeminisms Sex Education and Chilled Speech Cybersexual Moral Panics Fear-Driven Conceptions of Safety Algorithmic White-Supremacist Beauty Ideals CHAPTER 4. TOWARD A NUANCED DEFINITION OF SAFETY Imagining Liberated Digital Worlds The Porn Conversation Conclusion Resources by/for Sex Workers & Allies REFERENCES Lens: Word Cloud

ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS

40223
In this thesis, I navigate the relationship between anti-sex work policies and the censorship of inclusive sex education. Using TikTok as a case study, I explore how our safety is constructed and mediated on social networking sites as it relates to sex and sexuality. I turn to sex worker activists as experts on the intersection of sex, tech, and censorship for this research. With the knowledge created and shared by sex workers, I frame the censorship of sex education as digital violence rooted in anti-sex work bias that has potentially harmful impacts on the young users of the site. Through discourse analysis of pop sex education TikTok posts, TikTok’s Community Guidelines, and public policies relating to sex education, youth internet safety, and pornography, I highlight the need for a more liberatory digital future built by and with sex workers. In this paper I outline the connection between the fight for the decriminalization and destigmatization of sex work and the pursuit of queer and trans inclusive, anti-racist, body positive, medically accurate, comprehensive sex education. 


This thesis came together through a series of scribbled notes scrawled across books, articles, and blank sheets of paper. I invite you to take a look at my thought process in completing this project.
 



 

This page has paths:

  1. #SEGGSED: SEX, SAFETY, AND CENSORSHIP ON TIKTOK Mikayla Knight

This page references: