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Update, 4/17/2024: Expanded on Volume Two, part one of which I'm preparing to release soon, so I updated the illustration count (over 1,600 now).
The inner sleeve to all four volumes of my book. Finished the cover based off an old prototype.
Book details: My name is Persephone van der Waard and I have a non-profit book series on sex positivity and the Gothic. Made in collaboration with other sex workers, Sex Positivity is a four-volume book being released one volume/sub-volume (module) at a time. Simply go to my website's 1-page promo and pick up a copy of each for free!
Support my work! You can support me and the work I do through commissions; re: I do written and illustrated commissions, whose rates and examples of which can be accessed on my commissions page. Apart from commissions, I also take donations. In terms of payment, either can be sent through my PayPal, but also Ko-Fi, Patreon and CashApp.
Any commission/donation money I make goes towards helping sex workers for my ongoing book series. If you want to help by purchasing a commission, you can contact me on DA, Facebook, Twitter, Bluesky and Discord; my username is the same on all of them: vanderWaardart (it’s vanderWaardart86 on Tumblr). You can also use my website’s contact form, which puts you in touch with my business e-mail.
Very nice, I don’t know anything about Gothic theory but I definitely understand the conundrum of how hard it can be to tell the difference between sex positivity and economic, cultural, and other kinds of capitalist pressures. Is this sex worker doing a job they genuinely enjoy for its own sake, or are they being paid to seem more enthusiastic than they actually are? Is it a mixture of both? Is the pressure economic or social?
There’s no ethical consumption under capitalism, but asking these questions is important if we’re to make the use of a sex worker’s services less unethical than it is now.