Until several days ago, Striptease was a glaring oversight in my otherwise comprehensive history of sex work film viewing. I thought I should rectify that problem in light of my grousing about Demi Moore’s ham-handed anti-trafficking efforts, so I did. Sort-of. (Halfway through, I had to turn it off. It is unwatchably, un-fun-ly bad.) Here… Continue reading Blast From The Past: Striptease (1996)
Category: Blast From the Past
What really happens in the dressing room
Tits and Sass loves Lily Burana‘s piece in Salon this week, When We Were Strippers.
Happy Birthday Valerie Solanas
If she were still alive, radical feminist author and prostitute Valerie Solanas would celebrate her 75th birthday today. Instead, she died of pneumonia at a seedy Tenderloin hotel while she was a streetwalker in the late ’80s. If you’re not familiar, Solanas was most famous for the attempted murder of Andy Warhol in 1968 after he both… Continue reading Happy Birthday Valerie Solanas
Historical Wardrobe Malfunction
This is kind of neato—The Star Tribune has a blog called “Yesterday’s News” where it digs up old-timey newspaper articles, photos and ads. This week’s feature made the front page of the Minneapolis Tribune on May 9, 1953: Darlene LaBette Varallo, an “esoteric dancer”, was jailed for disorderly conduct. Two follow-up articles detail the handling… Continue reading Historical Wardrobe Malfunction
Oh, To Be a Housewife!
“I wonder what kind of girls do that kind of work, and how they get into it.” Victoria Layton is bored. She’s middle-aged by 1968 standards, she used to have a wildly interesting life. Now she’s in Connecticut and she’s fuckin’ bored. She’s so bored that she spends most of the beginning of The Secret… Continue reading Oh, To Be a Housewife!