I know James Franco belongs in the bin with all the other Hollywood abusers, but I watched the first series of this before I found out about what he's done and I'm drawn like a magnet to anything that depicts sex work...

Has anyone else seen it? What did you think?

I have mixed feelings personally. I was disappointed that they didn't seem to be able to show a single sex worker who didn't experience any violence at all and just plodded along, but I do think there was a good mix of characters with different qualities. I know I can set the bar low sometimes so I'd be interested to see if anyone didn't enjoy it and why.

Oh, and Maggie Gyllenhaal's characters 'car salesman' analogy was great!

I just watched the trailer for 'The Deuce' - looks good and I'll keep it in mind for the future, thanks for bringing it up.

My recommendations regarding sex work would be:
1. American Courtesans: a documentary done by a sex worker and activist
2. Whore's Glory (the theme song 'Whore's glory poem' is brilliant ! ): a documentary showing snippets of lives of sex workers in Thailand, Bangladesh and Mexico; very haunting
3. After Porn Ends (part 1 and 2): a fantastic couple of documentaries.

Have you seen the series 'The Girlfriend experience'?
I managed to go through season 1 and it was utterly depressing