The sex worker rights movement desperately needs more men outing themselves as johns, standing with sex workers, and defending the right for consenting adults to buy and sell sex. But while I was reading Paying For It, a graphic memoir by Canadian john Chester Brown who does just that, I kept thinking one thing: I… Continue reading Chester Brown’s Paying for It
Author: Charlotte Shane
Charlotte has been working in the sex industry for eight years and writing about it for just as long. After stints in webcam, massage, and fetish work, she is now an overpriced prostitute having less intercourse than ever before. More of her writing can be found at www.charlotteshane.com.
Daughters Shouldn’t be Prostitutes…or Treated as Full Human Beings
This might come as a shock, but all of us here at Tits and Sass are daughters. For Freakonomics-famous, probably John Mayer-loving Steven Levitt, this is a hard pill to swallow. He thinks that because women so often are dissuaded from performing illegal sex work because of its illegality (ha,) it is a good idea… Continue reading Daughters Shouldn’t be Prostitutes…or Treated as Full Human Beings
Assault, Consent, and Silence
Here’s the story: A well-to-do Virginian businessman takes needy women under his financial wing on the condition that they follow the rules of his “scholarship plan.” If they break these rules, which consist of limits on alcohol and drug intake, and requirements to stay in contact with their benefactor, they receive a spanking. (He’s inspired… Continue reading Assault, Consent, and Silence
Tina Fey Hates Sex Workers: Part 3 of Infinity
I bet you thought that with the most recent season of 30 Rock all wrapped up, we wouldn’t have any more opportunities to obsess about Tina Fey’s mean-spirited sex worker obsession. But with our girl TF, the sex worker hate is a constantly bubbling stream. So let’s drink deep from her well with this old… Continue reading Tina Fey Hates Sex Workers: Part 3 of Infinity
Tina Fey Hates Sex Workers: Part Two of Infinity
Oh Tina Fey, you sex worker-obsessed mess. I love 30 Rock with all the passion of a fake orgasm, but sometimes it’s more in spite of you than because of you. Let’s start with last week’s episode, shall we? Once again, Tracy Jordan (played by comedian Tracy Morgan) finds himself in a strip club with… Continue reading Tina Fey Hates Sex Workers: Part Two of Infinity