Powerful, moving, challenging: on recording local sex industry stories

Cheryl Ware, historian of sex, gender, and health, authored "Untold Intimacies," a history of sex work in Aotearoa. Based on 120 interviews, the book shares powerful stories. Ware was surprised by personal connections to the industry and found her voice as a writer, experimenting with structure and prose. One memorable story recounts a sex worker's supportive father.