Modern Whore Review: This Exhilarating Documentary Eschews Tropes With Energetic Style

To quote none other than Andrea Werhun's Modern Whore, "in books, movies and every syndicated crime drama imaginable, sex workers are typically portrayed as either victims or villains." Apart from the Julia Roberts-led Pretty Woman, which gave a very romanticized look at the profession, so often does everything from TV police procedurals to horror movies and psychological thrillers cling to such simplistic stereotypes that they keep sex workers unfairly stigmatized.

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