This fear and hatred frequently intersects with the fear and hatred of other marginalized groups. Meaning, some sex workers are more likely to suffer from the consequences of their society's whorephobia, specifically disabled, LGBTQIA+, street, migrant or survival workers (those who engage in "survival sex" e.g. the exchange of sex for money, food, clothing, shelter, or other basic needs), sex workers of color, and depending on what country the sex worker is living and working in.

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The level of marginalization and stigma that affects sex workers also depends on whether or not they are able to concurrently maintain another non-sex work related job (without fear of being fired) or be hired at a new job after they have done sex work, whether or not they live in a place that criminalizes the buying or selling of sexual services, the level of sex positivity in their social circles, whether they are "out" as a sex worker (their sex work persona is connected to their person, or people in their lives know they're a sex worker), and what type of sex work they do (e.g. paid modeling for budoir photoshoots, online content creation or camming, professional pornography, dancing in a club, sugar babying, escorting, prostitution, or brothel work) and the dangers and risks associated with each.

 

It is important to note that any and all institutions & political movements that imply that adult sex workers cannot under any circumstances consent to sex work, that target sex workers, organizations, and companies with baseless accusations of aiding or approving of trafficking or child exploitation, or that work to pass legislature under the guise of protecting trafficking victims and children (but that actually target sex workers) and who refuse to work with sex workers who are educated & experienced organizers, advocates, and often survivors themselves, are using the issues of trafficking and child exploitation to promote whorephobia in every sense - personally, economically, societally, and legally - and in the process not only are they often hurting the very victims they are claiming to support, they are actively destroying all the work that the sex work community has tried to do for those issues over the decades.