I’m all about Stephen Colbert’s response to last week’s headline in the New York Post. I wonder how many other headlines we can make up with the word “hooker” where it makes no sense.
Category: Videos
Stripper Music Monday: Grace Potter Respects Strippers Enough To Stare And Not Tip
From Cincinnati CityBeat: GP: I knew what I wanted “Paris (Ooh La La)” to be. I had a concept of what I wanted the video to look like. But we really wanted to see how dancers move and watch these girls dance to our songs. A lot of these clubs would be playing “Paris” in… Continue reading Stripper Music Monday: Grace Potter Respects Strippers Enough To Stare And Not Tip
Top 10 Anti-Sex Trafficking Campaigns
I’m a little nervous to have been tasked with following in the footsteps of Kat’s outrageously hysterical Top 10 Anti-Sex Work Billboards. Mostly just because hers was so good but also because, as Kutchergate proved, anyone who criticizes the methodology around anti-trafficking measures may be automatically labeled a trafficking-loving monster. But I’ve probably already made… Continue reading Top 10 Anti-Sex Trafficking Campaigns
MTV’s True Life Confirms that Sugarbabydom is a Hassle
The popularity of the sugar baby/sugar daddy relationship in the media is a bit of a recession phenomenon. It’s a grey-area of sex work lite that women with no experience in the sex industry can dip their toes into before they realize that if something sounds too good to be true, it is. The odds… Continue reading MTV’s True Life Confirms that Sugarbabydom is a Hassle
Funeral Strippers?
I never knew about the phenomenon of strippers performing as part of funeral processions in certain parts of Taiwan until I heard about a new documentary, Dancing for the Dead: Funeral Strippers in Taiwan. There is an interesting interview with its creator, Marc L. Moskowitz, on io9. I’ve encountered many grieving men whose first stop… Continue reading Funeral Strippers?