I was flipping through BUST magazine last month when I came across a story about a Portland-based phone sex operator who makes all sorts of cash talking about food fetishes. Impressed and intrigued, the first thing that came to my mind was my all-time favorite South Park episode where Stan’s dad gets caught jerking off… Continue reading Talking Dirty with Tonya Jone Miller
Category: What is Sex Work?
DuBarry Was a Lady (1943)
Du Barry Was A Lady (1943) This film! Gene Kelly, Red Skelton, and Lucille Ball (who is a most epic redhead in color, I have to say) star in this musical where a hat check boy busts his head and dreams he is Louis XV, and Lucy is his Madame Du Barry. Sex work is,… Continue reading DuBarry Was a Lady (1943)
Gigolos: Meet My New Guilty Pleasure
“I can’t wait to watch it next week!” “You liked it?” I was pretty sure we had just spent half an hour laughing uncomfortably, except for the part where we paused and rewound to check if one of the gigolos really had a giant black tattoo in place of pubic hair. “I hate it. But… Continue reading Gigolos: Meet My New Guilty Pleasure
Sugarbabies Unite! (sort of.)
For some, the jury is out on whether being a sugarbaby counts as sex work, for others it’s pretty clear that it is. The ladies of Tits and Sass think it is, even if we don’t all have the same opinion on it. So, we decided to have a little Sugarbaby Roundtable on the topic.… Continue reading Sugarbabies Unite! (sort of.)
Sugarbabe: Kat Commiserates With A Friend
I was introduced to Sugarbabe by my friend Charlotte who received the book from a client. I was able to track down one used copy at Powell’s after a few weeks of keeping an eye on the sex worker section. It was obvious from a dog-eared page toward the beginning of the book and the… Continue reading Sugarbabe: Kat Commiserates With A Friend