Over the weekend, the internet news show The Young Turks drew my attention to this story: a 37-year-old Houston escort who works under the name of Shelby is offering a discount for clients who donate a toy to Toys for Tots. For any guy who booked an hour and brought an unwrapped toy, Shelby offered… Continue reading Toys for Tatas: Sex Workers and Charity
Category: Silly Media Coverage
Kat’s 2011 Top 10 Stupid Headlines About Sex Work
10. Missouri Supreme Court to Strip Club Owners: “Tough Titties” Judges are always talking about boobs and shit. This is actually a big deal but who can resist a good pun, right? Sleaze To Meet You, too, journalists. I hate to break it to you, but you guys have been using the same puns to… Continue reading Kat’s 2011 Top 10 Stupid Headlines About Sex Work
Stripper Music Monday: Live Band Edition
Alt-weeklies are always willing to run a strip club feature, using this reliably entertaining subject matter as clickbait. They’ll do stories about labor issues, the food they serve, current legal challenges, and the music they play (yes, that’s me). This year, a couple of alt-weekly strip club stories stuck with me for covering a phenomenon I… Continue reading Stripper Music Monday: Live Band Edition
The Morning After Podcast
The one thing that all the well-adjusted, fiscally responsible, long-term sex workers I know have in common is a sense of humor. Not that I hate my job, but certain things have happened where I’ve had a choice of either collapsing into a fetal position and bawling, or folding over with laughter, with really no… Continue reading The Morning After Podcast
Ho-(Book)Bag: The Tits and Sass Book Club Begins with Zone One
“A literary novelist writing a genre novel is like an intellectual dating a porn star. It invites forgivable prurience: What is that relationship like? Granted the intellectual’s hit hanky-panky pay dirt, but what’s in it for the porn star? Conversation? Ideas? Deconstruction?” That’s Glen Duncan, over at the New York Times on Colson Whitehead’s “zombie novel,”… Continue reading Ho-(Book)Bag: The Tits and Sass Book Club Begins with Zone One