Andrea Werhun, a Canadian sex worker, is asked the same question over and over again by her strip club clients: What traumatic incident occurred during her childhood that forced her into the industry? Often, she refuses to answer, and often, her clients are insistent.

“Women don't just become strippers,” a man tells her in Modern Whore, a new documentary that explores her decade-long career as a sex worker. “Something must have happened.”

Werhun has a name for the kinds of stories her clientele fish for: "trauma porn." Though she admits in the documentary that she has no idea why an individual would be so desperate for her to relive her emotional distress, she thinks it's part of a broader effort to create a narrative of shame surrounding sex work, marking it as an illegitimate profession. And she's had enough.