Category: Television

Slave Hunter and Cultural Boners

Appropriately bleak looking promo for Slave Hunter (via msnbc.com)

In 2011, I had the privilege of speaking on a local television program, Face to Face with John Ralston in Las Vegas. At the time, I worked on a national research initiative called the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC), a federally funded project. The US Department of Justice (DOJ) created CSEC in an effort to… Continue reading Slave Hunter and Cultural Boners

Ridin’ Nerdy: Exploiting the Myth of the Fake Geek Girl

Gimmie some sugar, baby. Josie, as Evil Dead's Ash, hanging with R2D2.

I like to scan the men bathed in flashing red light at their tables, strategizing. Star Wars and comic book character t-shirts are the easiest. Anyone who gives off the vibe of working in tech. Sometimes I can recognize a tattoo, or, sometimes it’s just a good hunch. Really, most of the men in these… Continue reading Ridin’ Nerdy: Exploiting the Myth of the Fake Geek Girl

The Doctor Is In: Sex Work Goes Whovian

(image via ask-the-tenth-doctor.tumblr.com)

by Josephine and Caty The year is 3056 and some things never change. You’re filing your nails in the dressing room. Just another dull night in the Martian strip club. Perhaps you’re idly thumbing through an old Cosmo as you wait patiently within the brothel at the end of the universe. It’s not always this… Continue reading The Doctor Is In: Sex Work Goes Whovian

Support Hos: Elementary, Season One (2012)

"The Long Fuse," S01E08, CBS

I’m a sucker for procedurals (while also being deeply ambivalent about them), so of course I was going to watch Elementary, CBS’s not-so-new-now take on Sherlock Holmes; I was immediately sold because female Watson. Played by Lucy Liu. And Jonny Lee Miller as a weird, twitchy, tattooed, recovering-addict Sherlock Holmes. I’m beyond over the BBC’s… Continue reading Support Hos: Elementary, Season One (2012)

You’re Not Funny: SNL Can’t Parody Porn Stars

I spent the better part of last June gluing rhinestones to this one wall in my apartment. At some point during the second week I started wearing a toolbelt full of E6000 glue, wadded up paper towels, sparkly bits and the syringes I use to control where the glue goes. I should mention that the… Continue reading You’re Not Funny: SNL Can’t Parody Porn Stars