There is a peculiar claustrophobic glory to working in a strip club. The walls hug. The beat of the music holds you in its grasp that is by turns steely and auto-tuned, fuzzy with distortion, jangly with teenage optimism, and tired with oversaturation. The air breathes recycled. The lights flash with epileptic precision. The girls… Continue reading A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Bathroom Attendant: A Highly Subjective Review of From the Head [2012]
Author: chelsea g. summers
At the tender age of thirty, chelsea g. summers became a stripper. Now she is a writer. Her stuff has been published in Penthouse and GQ in the US, New Woman and Scarlet Magazine in the UK, in anthologies edited by Susie Bright, Rachel Kramer Bussel and Tristan Taormino, and on the web at Filthy Gorgeous Things, among others. You can read her lissome prose on her blog, pretty dumb things, and keep abreast of her mental detritus on her Twitter account.
The Loveliest Little Mid-Price Hooker in Wellington
In a post-Mike Daisey age, you can’t help but approach a monologuist with a certain skepticism. There’s truth and then there’s truthiness, and in between rests a heaving sea of what-the-hell-edness. Part Time Prostitute, a one-woman show that claims to be the “autobiographical tale of a part-time prostitute,” appears to be fairly on the level,… Continue reading The Loveliest Little Mid-Price Hooker in Wellington
Live Nude [REDACTED] On Stage
When the play in question is called Stripper Lesbians, one might assume that there will be strippers who are also lesbians. An astute reader is also likely to surmise that the subtext is going to center on labels. Neither assumption is incorrect when applied to the play Stripper Lesbians, directed by Jeff Woodbridge, currently running… Continue reading Live Nude [REDACTED] On Stage
From Shaking Tail to Spinning Tales
In March 2005 I started a blog. My first post was about my new hideously expensive purse, but my blog, pretty dumb things, quickly became a blog with—not necessarily of—sex. I wrote a lot, posting five or six times a week, often but not always, narrating something sexual. At the height of its popularity, my… Continue reading From Shaking Tail to Spinning Tales