Jill Brenneman
Jill Brenneman is a national speaker, activist and outreach educator. She draws from her own diverse experiences in the sex industry as the basis for her speeches. Having a unique series of experiences that at different times in her life made her an unwilling participant as a submissive escort for an escort service catering to BDSM clients, yet at a later time in her life she was a sex worker by choice, both escort and exotic dancer. Jill, can speak from first person perspective about the differences between her non-consensual participation in the sex industry as a submissive and her experience later as an adult sex worker making a consenting and open choice to do sex work. The two very separate experiences in her life give an audience a nuanced sense that the sex industry/sex work is complicated, not black and white.
Brenneman also brings a first person perspective as to the harm of criminalization in both of her differing experiences. Brenneman is an outspoken advocate of sex worker human rights and is a harm reduction trained Minnesota certified sexual assault crisis counselor Brenneman’s 2003 ideological repositioning from anti prostitution activist to sex worker rights advocate has made her a controversial figure within the sex industry social justice movements. Her strong opposition to the Trafficking Victims Protection Re-authorization Act 2003 and subsequent Anti Prostitution Oath of 2005 has been the subject of strong responses both positive and negative from activists and media personalities.
Complete Listing of Jill Brenneman’s Speaking Presentations, Media Interviews, Guest Appearances
