Category: This Time, It’s Personal

From an Industry to A Hobby: How Review Boards Have Changed Our Work

When I first started working as an escort in this industry, review boards did not exist. The internet was not as widely used as it is now and I worked for agencies that advertised in the phone book or in local papers. We didn’t even have to post photos of ourselves in a public forum;… Continue reading From an Industry to A Hobby: How Review Boards Have Changed Our Work

Letter From An Extras Girl: If It’s So Easy, Why Haven’t You Done It?

Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will.—Yoda Hola Hater, Thanks for the helpful suggestions in “An Open Letter to the Extras Girl.” You know, for telling me how to do my job. Don’t take it personally if I ignore them. This is business, girl, and… Continue reading Letter From An Extras Girl: If It’s So Easy, Why Haven’t You Done It?

An Extras Girl in Australia

I get into work at the strip club and put my bag down. “Who is leaving all these condoms around here? We’re not fucking whores!” “Why do people have condoms in here, it’s meant to be a STRIP CLUB, who is doing that shit?” I replied straight back, “They’re not mine, but what’s the big… Continue reading An Extras Girl in Australia

An Open Letter From A Detroit Extras Girl

This is one of three responses to Josephine’s “An Open Letter to the Extras Girl” that we’ll be running this week. First up is M, a dancer who, like Josephine, works in Detroit. On a sweltering August afternoon in 2012, I walked through the impossibly heavy glass doors of the glitziest strip club in Detroit.… Continue reading An Open Letter From A Detroit Extras Girl