Comments on: Fast Girl: A Life Spent Running From Madness (2015)

By: taylor

taylor — Tue, 20 Nov 2018 16:02:53 +0000

everyone’s individual experiences with bipolar disorder are just that (individual), plus i’m a civilian who’s got bipolar II with a lot of complicating *physical* factors, but that highlighted passage was very much not how *mine* feels.

By: Not Good For Me: An Interview with Suzy Favor Hamilton — Tits and Sass

Not Good For Me: An Interview with Suzy Favor Hamilton — Tits and Sass — Thu, 05 Nov 2015 16:00:28 +0000

[…] career, her stint escorting, her family life, and her struggle with bipolar disorder. After reviewing the book for Tits and Sass, contributor Katie de Long had a conversation with Favor Hamilton over e-mail about the New York […]

By: Juliette

Juliette — Thu, 01 Oct 2015 22:02:42 +0000

Really interesting connection there, between athletics and sex work. Reminds me of my own ruminations as to how I slipped into the erotic business. Before becoming an erotic masseuse I had danced ballet for 14 years, and I totally agree that the “performative effort” common to both performing arts and sex work makes it easy to transition from one into the other. Body work in general somehow conditions those performing it to obectify themselves over time, creating a mental distance between oneself and the body’s actions when performing for others, so that it becomes routine and almost natural to be putting the body to work for others. A good friend of mine who was also a sex worker, was also a professional ballerina before discovering sex work. After being valued and evaluated for how she presented her body for so many years, being successful at sex work was not a problem or in any way uncomfortable. The blocking mechanisms built up in the ballet world–learning to withstand the initial pain of being en pointe; learning to bury all negative emotions for the sake of maintaining grace, elegance and poise–are very useful for doing sex work. Blocking is not necessarily a psychologically “bad” thing…I think a lot of people in general use blocking mechanisms to get through life. I’ve come to view it as a trait that can be built up and transferred across different activities or professions, similar to perseverance.

By: Review: Fast Girl, on Tits and Sass | Erotic Romance Writer Katie De Long

Review: Fast Girl, on Tits and Sass | Erotic Romance Writer Katie De Long — Wed, 30 Sep 2015 17:12:00 +0000

[…] It’s been a hella crazy month. Lots of new titles up, including some ones that are wildly different than what you’ve seen from me thus far. But on top of that, I can now cross one thing off my bucket list: writing for Tits and Sass. […]

By: Trina

Trina — Tue, 29 Sep 2015 22:30:39 +0000

Thank you for this. <3

By: Kitten

Kitten — Tue, 29 Sep 2015 21:06:02 +0000

Great review! Thanks so much for candor and for speaking about living with bipolar 🙂