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I really enjoyed Live Nude Girls Unite! and what interested me simultaneously the most and the least was the generation gap issue, with regards to feminist views on sex work, that we have been/will be discussing. It interested me the least when it was involved with the conflict between the director and her mother, which felt a lot of the time like a subplot shoehorned into the film to give it an "emotional center" (and I think the director recognizes this, because she even mentions how she's using it narratively at one point.) It interested me the most when it became more than one person's story and a part of the story of all of the sex workers, because it was a divide that blocked them off from wider acceptance and support in the feminist community. At first I found the hypocrisy really strange, but I think if you look at it as a first/second wave vs. third wave thing, it becomes more understandable. If it's been a way of thinking for so long - sex work = degrading, is there really a way to overcome that stigma completely (see: director's mom, who can't)?