The Sacred Return: From Feminism to Matriarchy

Sex Work and the Reclamation of Power in the 21st Century

This ethnographic study examines sex work as both a symptom and a subversion of contemporary feminist collapse — tracing how digital platforms, performance, and self-curation have transformed the labor of desire into a language of reclamation.
Through a lens of cultural anthropology and critical media analysis, the research explores how sex work—long dismissed as exploitation—has become a modern matriarchal ritual: a reassertion of agency, authorship, and the body as both archive and altar.

By engaging with sex workers, media texts, and online communities, this work interrogates the boundaries between liberation and commodification, the performative and the sacred, and ultimately, how the feminine has reemerged as both the product and producer of her own mythology in the digital age.