porn health & sex work labour
Journal & Book Articles
“Bimbo Idiots Fighting Against Their Own Best Interests”: Epistemic Injustice and Occupational Health in Porn Production, 2025, Sexuality Research & Social Policy, online first
Digitally Facilitated Sex Work: A Scoping Review Articulating Men’s Labor Experiences, (with Brittany O’Shea, Claire Yurkovich, Austin Oswald, Christopher Dietzel, Becky Feicht, Kirk Furlotte, Dave Holmes, & Matthew Numer) 2025, Journal of Sex Research, online first
The Definitional Creep: Payment Processing and the Moral Ordering of Sexual Content, (with Rébecca Franco) 2025, Sexualities, 28(7): 2120-2139
‘This is Fucking Nuts’: The Role of Payment Intermediaries in Structuring Precarity and Dependencies in Platformized Sex Work, (with Rébecca Franco) 2024, Porn Studies, online first
Punishing Sex: How Financial Discrimination and Content Moderation Harm Online Sex Workers, 2024, in Sex Work Today, edited by Bernadette Barton, Barb Brents, & Angela Jones, New York University Press
No Respect: Sex Research as Sex Work (with Rebecca Sullivan), 2024, Porn Studies, 11(1): 40-50
Sex Exceptionalism and Erasure in Porn Health Protocols, 2024, Culture, Health & Sexuality, 26(1): 126-141 (postprint)
Pornhub and Policy: Examining the Erasure of Pornography Workers in Canadian Platform Governance (with Maggie MacDonald, Stefanie Duguay, & Fenwick McKelvey), 2023, Canadian Journal of Communication, 48(2): 381-404
Crossovers and Consent: Underlying Assumptions in Porn Health Protocol, 2021, Synoptique, 9(2): 183-200
Constructing a Crisis: Porn Panics and Public Health (with Rebecca Sullivan), 2018, Porn Studies, 5(2): 192-196
Special Forum: Pornography and Public Health, 2018, Porn Studies 5(2) (Co-editor with Rebecca Sullivan)
Public Health versus Performer Privates: Measure B’s Failure to Fix Subjects, 2015, Porn Studies, 2(4): 299-313
Shades of Gay: Performance of Girl-on-Girl Pornography and Mobile Authenticities, 2013, Sexualities, 16(1/2): 217-235
Reports & Policy Interventions
Brief for the Stranding Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs regarding S-209 (with Jean Ketterling), 2025, Submitted to the Canadian Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs regarding Bill S-209, An Act to restrict young persons’ online access to pornographic material
Pornhub Creator Consultations Report (with Maggie MacDonald), 2023, Independent Research for ECP
NSFW on Reddit: Experiences of Moderation (with Ashley Lake), 2023, Independent Research
The Impact of Mastercard’s Adult Content Policy on Adult Content Creators, 2022, Independent Research
Integrating Sexual Expression into the Model Regulatory Framework for Platforms (with Steph Hill, Hanne Stegeman, Zahra Stardust, Kath Albury, Carolina Are, & Maggie MacDonald), 2022, Submitted to The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) regarding their proposed regulatory framework for online platforms
Brief for the Department of Canadian Heritage regarding the Digital Citizen Initiative (with Maggie MacDonald), 2021, Submitted to Canadian Heritage regarding the proposed Digital Citizen Initiative to combat harmful content online
Brief for the Standing Committee on Health regarding M-47 (with Rebecca Sullivan, Taylor Kohut, James Pfaus & William Fisher), 2017, Submitted to the Canadian House of Commons Standing Committee on Health regarding Motion-47: “to examine the public health effects of the ease of access and viewing of online violent and degrading sexually explicit material”
Op-Eds & Public Scholarship
Tech’s Harsh Censorship of Porn Is Hitting Very Close to Home, 2021, The Daily Beast
Eradicating Sexual Exploitation in Porn Should Not be at the Expense of Sex Workers (with Maggie MacDonald & Rebecca Sullivan), 2021, The Conversation
How Sex Workers Take Care of Each Other (with Sadie Hamilton), 2020, The Independent
Occupational Health in Porn Production: New Frameworks, 2019, Impact Ethics
Porn Not to Blame for Public Health Issues (with Rebecca Sullivan), 2017, The Conversation