Vice mag contributor Helen Rimmel did a photo essay on South Mumbai sex workers who are peer teachers on HIV, STDs, and women’s rights in the community. Ignore Rimmel’s offensive attempts at a narrative—“Life in the red light districts is…pretty much like living in a giant toilet bowl full of syringes and awful people”—and enjoy the photos… Continue reading The Week in Links–March 1st
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The Week In Links— February 22
Deep Inside: A Study of 10,000 Porn Stars and Their Careers purports to reveal “the truth about what the average performer looks like, what they do on film, and how their role has evolved over the last forty years”, using information gathered from The Internet Adult Film Database (and without talking to any actual sex workers, conveniently).… Continue reading The Week In Links— February 22
The Week In Links: February 15
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… Continue reading The Week In Links: February 15
The Week In Links: February 8
“2 Broke Girls” appropriated stripper signifiers “Pour Some Sugar On Me,” poledancing, and thigh high PVC boots for a Super Bowl commercial, and then an Idaho congressman fired an aide who tweeted salaciously about it. In the words of the Awl, “Something about ‘Two Broke Girls’ Finally Funny.” This isn’t really about strippers, but it’s a… Continue reading The Week In Links: February 8
The Week In Links: February 1
The above (SFW) ad for PornHub was rejected for broadcast during the Super Bowl. Speaking of the Super Bowl, here’s a bunch of stories about trafficking hysteria and arrests in New Orleans plus a non-hysterical article about the city’s strip clubs. A nursing home in England is under investigation after the East Sussex County Council… Continue reading The Week In Links: February 1