My PhD is focused on support services for sex workers and I am currently coding my observation data. There appears to be a real theme of service-user sharing, as in service-users sharing stories of violence, tragedy, pride etc.

I'm struggling to find relevant literature that looks at social sharing and the purposes behind this kind of disclosure etc. If anyone could suggest some relevant reading I would greatly appreciate it.

Might it be worth looking at literature on things like peer support groups/peer-led interventions? I've worked with sex workers before (primarily via addictions services) and there is a prevalence of peer support groups in that field, in which sharing is encouraged for things like learning, confidence building and so on - this may be a helpful area of overlap for your topic?

That's definitely a good place to start, thank you