The Week In Links: July 22

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July 22, 2011

Sex workers and anti-sex work groups clashed at the Women’s World 2011, a feminist conference held in Ottowa from July 3 to 7, particularly over an art exhibit entitled “Flesh Mapping: Prostitution in a Globalized World”

The Top 5 Porn Moments You Don’t See

The Charles H. McCaghy Collection of Exotic Dance from Burlesque to Clubs

Findings on the health care needs of sex workers in Delaware

An Australian prostitute is suing her former brothel for failing to protect her when a client held her at gunpoint.

Sex workers in Nigeria are fighting for decriminalization by challenging the Nigerian Constitution, meanwhile India’s Supreme Court considers regulating prostitution.

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The Week In Links: June 15

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June 15, 2012

An off-duty Broward County deputy (Christian Benenati, pictured) solicited an undercover cop from his own department for prostitution, and was arrested. HAHA.

Our own Charlotte Shane wrote this thoughtful essay about wealth for The New Inquiry.

And Bubbles wrote about obstacles sex workers encounter trying to get paid without cash on Forbes.com

The Angry Stripper, Sarah Tressler, is on a strip-trip book tour. “She cited Tucker Max and David Sedaris as styles she likes to emulate with her short stories.”

Kandy Klein wrote about how the Euro 2012 football championship will impact strip clubs.

A former topless dancer worked as a confidential informant for the ATF to help arrest a white supremacist bombmaker.

The Houston City Council is the newest governing body trying to tax strip clubs to fund social services.

Canada still grants visas to strippers, even under a more conservative government.

The (really pretty! even in jail without makeup!) Soccer Mom Madam (or Matchmaker, as she maintains) was interviewed by Matt Lauer on TODAY.

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The Week in Links: December 16

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December 16, 2011

Pole dancing may soon become an Olympic sport.

Art Hage, pastor at the Hurricane Bible Church and Ministries in West Virginia, has big pans for a nearby abandoned building that used to be the Pink Pony strip club. Hage will transform the former “haven of evil” into another church, if only he can raise $800,000.

The Maine Human Rights Commission found PTs Showclub guilty of discrimination for firing a black dancer because of her ethnicity.

Long Island police discovered a corpse that they believe is the remains of Shannan Gilbert, a sex worker who disappeared in May 2010. Bizarrely, Suffolk County Police Commissioner Richard Dormer believes she may have accidentally drowned in the swamp where her body was found, and that she was not a victim of the Long Island serial killer.

Three men and one woman in China have been arrested as suspects in the murder of 10 people, including eight sex workers, between 1998 and 2004.

The New York Post has figured out that strippers can make pretty decent money.

The Sundial (the student newspaper at Cal State Northridge) profiles a few sex workers pursuing higher education, including Jessie Nicole, director of SWOP-LA.

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The Week in Links: May 18

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May 18, 2012

How many of you have danced with a “Pocahontas”? This one is in trouble.

An amazing account of R. Kelly’s performance at an Austin strip club.

On dancing in Williston: “‘A lap dance is $20; of that, you keep $15,’ she says. ‘To make $2,000 a night, you’re going to have to do a hell of a lot of lap dances.'” This is something we’ve said before.

A passed strip club tax this week in Illinois and a proposed one in California: here’s what we think about the Texas pole tax.

Vegas’ newest club sounds like a blast. And hey, here’s Hannibal Buress on white strip clubs.

Joey Lawrence to work at Chippendales for three weeks.

Laura Agustín on sex as work and sex work

The Houston Press picks their top strip club songs. While we’re linking to old Tits and Sass posts, remember what we said about the Houston Press?

Kitty Stryker on sex work and dating

The dancers of Paris’ Crazy Horse went on strike.

After Porn Ends, a documentary about porn stars after they leave the industry, debuts May 21.

File under: Tina Fey

And be careful: customers really can get heart attacks from lapdances.

The Week In Links: February 15

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February 15, 2013

Former porn star Coco Brown is training to be an astronaut. And no, journalists, it is not so she can have sex in space.

In “Thank God” news, a Washington judge permanently blocked a three-time felon and current inmate’s request for personal information attached to the licenses of over 200 area strippers. The inmate described himself as a “an advocate for the industry” who needed the info in order to make the women famous through his use of social media. Yeah, Asshole, that’s exactly what a lot of sex worker stalkers want to do: out them to the world, permanently, online.

Atlanta is working to ban prostitutes and their clients from areas of city once they’ve been convicted of multiple arrests. Georgia’s Supreme Court has a history of allowing such bans if they’re “reasonable, or aimed at rehabilitation.”

The recent arrest of Kink.com CEO Peter Acworth has reignited controversy over the way his business is run. (It’s not the first time the issue has come up.)

Sasha Grey on why she left porn: “I just knew that it wasn’t a smart business decision to keep working for other people.”

The independent contractor vs. employee battle continues to be waged in strip clubs across the country with a Kansas court providing the most recent landmark of ruling that strippers are entitled to unemployment insurance. The strip club will not appeal.

Also in Kansas, police are trying to find the man responsible for the murder of at least two prostitutes and the attempted murder of a third.

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