Dr Hilary Caldwell

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Dr Hilary Caldwell is a sex worker, author, academic, sexologist, and long-time advocate for gender justice. With a doctorate on women who buy sex and over two decades of professional experience, Hilary brings fierce intelligence, lived experience, and clarity to public conversations about pleasure, power, and consent.

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Dr Hilary Caldwell is an sex worker, author, academic, sexologist, and advocate for gender justice. Her bold political memoir, Slutdom: Reclaiming Shame-Free Sexuality, challenges the enduring impact of slut shaming and argues for a world in which everyone can pursue pleasure without fear, stigma, or coercion.

Hilary holds a PhD from UNSW, along with Masters degrees in Health Science and Applied Science. Her doctoral research, Women Who Buy Sex in Australia, is the first study globally to explore women’s experiences purchasing sexual services, and draws from her extensive career in sexology, health, and lived experience as a proud sex worker.

She is kinky, queer, a mother of four and a grandmother. Her work bridges the worlds of research, care, activism, and erotic autonomy.
 

BOOK

Title: Slutdom: Reclaiming Shame-Free Sexuality Author: Dr Hilary Caldwell
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Overview:
Sex should be good for everyone. Slutdom argues for a world without sexual shame where you can get what you need – and deserve.

Drawing on real women’s stories, deeply researched insights, and the author’s own life, Slutdom is celebratory, controversial, and courageous. From pleasure and pain to empowerment and consent, Caldwell explores the full spectrum of sexual agency.
 

Endorsement:

“Slutdom offers a unique lens into the power of sexual agency... This book gives us permission to see pleasure as a site of possibility and compellingly calls for the resistance of slut-shaming as a political force.” — Katrina Marson
 

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Women’s pleasure, health and sexuality

• Queer and kink-informed sexology

• Sex work and sexual agency

• Lived experience as academic and sex worker

• Memoir, research, and social change

 

TALKING POINTS

• Pleasure is political

• What women who buy sex can teach us

• Why shame-free sexuality matters

• How consent laws need to reflect lived experience

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