Some describe sex work as empowering; others see only exploitation. But what if both are true? One of the BBC's 100 Women, Chanel Contos, argues that an individual sex worker may experience agency, income and consent within the industry, but that does not dissolve the structural inequalities, class constraints and rape culture that shape who enters it, and under what conditions. In this talk, she explores the ethical nuance of sex work through the lens of consent and power. She asks what capability to consent requires, why decriminalisation and structural critique are not opposites, and how the patriarchal structure complicates simplistic narratives of freedom of choice.