In the city that has so many sexually oriented businesses that it’s known as “Pornland, Whoregon,” we asked a handful of dancers what they’d like to strive for in 2013. To find an upcycled brass pole for the house? To save up for that tattoo of a zombie bacon cupcake with a mustache? It turns… Continue reading Striplandia Resolutions
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The Week In Links: January 11
NPR has a story on how Australia’s mining boom is good for business in the brothels of Perth. Our condolences to the family and friends of dancer Lauren Block, who died this week from injuries sustained in a fall from the balcony of Christie’s Cabaret in Cleveland, OH. Well, it’s been five months since we had… Continue reading The Week In Links: January 11
The Week In Links: December 7
A man asks his prostitute to “turn my life upside down with your whimsical joie de vivre” in the hilarious short “Manic Pixie Prostitute.” “I wrote you a song on this midget guitar!” The Fokken twins, 50-year veteran prostitutes in Amsterdam, are national celebrities and sex advice agony aunts after the popularity of a documentary… Continue reading The Week In Links: December 7
The Sessions (2012)
The Sessions is a fictionalized account of real life writer Mark O’Brien’s foray into the sex trade—er, ahem, I mean NOT the sex trade—through the hiring of a sex surrogate with whom he can lose his virginity. The dauntingly bright, disabled Mark, played by foxy and ageless John Hawkes, finds himself in the stern yet… Continue reading The Sessions (2012)
The Week In Links: November 30
The video above is of Jennifer Lawrence during an interview on Leno giving a clinic on how not to enjoy the American treasure that is (almost dead certainly) Atlanta’s famed dive strip club, the Clermont Lounge. She insults the strippers and asks for change! The Journal of Sex Research published “Pornography Actresses: An Assessment of… Continue reading The Week In Links: November 30