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Channing Tatum Strips; Jason Sudeikis’ Strip Club DJ returns on SNL

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Bubbles
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Kat and I howled when we saw Jason Sudeikis’ strip club DJ character last year, and he returned to Saturday Night Live this weekend when former male stripper—and current star of Magic Mike, Steven Soderbergh’s male stripper movie—Channing Tatum was the guest host. The show made the most of his background. Tatum’s monologue revolved entirely around his former profession.

Tatum’s opening monologue:

Ladies’ Night at Bongo’s Clown Room:

Bongo’s Clown Room:

I do so appreciate it when comedy finds the funny in strippers without making jokes about our deaths or our emotional damage.

Dominatrix Music Monday: HTRK

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Lolo de Sucre
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Nothing says sexy and evil like the Australian electro/rock trio HTRK (pronounced “hate rock”). Their second album, Work (Work work), came out last September and has become one of my favorite sex work soundtracks. Their record label, Ghostly, describes their sound like “a comedown, a bad trip, a hip romance.” I’d add to that “the cool restrained thrill of watching your trick’s back cover in welt marks while a stack of cash looks on patiently from the bedside table.”

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2 Broke Girls, “And The Upstairs Neighbor”: A Wacky Misunderstanding

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suzyhooker
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2 Broke Girls is, in its first season, a breakout hit for the bawdy CBS network. The traditional, filmed-before-a-live-studio-audience sitcom follows the adventures of a mismatched pair of young women waitressing at a diner while they save up to launch a cupcake business. Occasionally there are jokes that use Coldplay and the Arcade Fire as punchlines, and it takes place in Williamsburg, so it’s sometimes called a hipster comedy.

It’s a show that we love to hatewatch. 2 Broke Girls has shocked us (I know!) at times with its throwback racism and heavy use of rape jokes, not to mention its willingness to toss off lines about cumshots, anal, and 85 variations on “that’s what she said.” From the very first episode, we wondered, “Why don’t they just strip?” and patiently waited for the idea of doing sex work to occur to them. Finally, the episode “The Upstairs Neighbor” addressed sex work. Sort of. Bubbles, Charlotte, and Kat gathered on Skype to watch and comment on how 2 Broke Girls handled the idea of hooking.

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The Week In Links: February 3

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suzyhooker
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GQ praises Richard Gere’s sex worker fashion sense in American Gigolo.

The news has been awfully short on “sex workers flocking to [Super Bowl City]” panic this year. Thankfully we found this piece about Brad’s Brass Flamingo in Indianapolis. “No one knows how to party like New Yorkers. And everyone knows they are the best tippers” said dancer Kendra Gill.

According to a new study, there is no link between human sex trafficking and major sports events—undermining the efforts of prohibitionists to connect the two in their anti-trafficking campaigns.

However, some nuns from Ohio are still working to eliminate sex trafficking in Indiana during the upcoming Superbowl.

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.XXX Domain Ads: Creepy “Porn Is Moving to .XXX” Print Campaign

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Bubbles
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The .xxx domain is nothing more than an efficient means for domain registrars to extort money from businesses and organizations afraid that their names will be bought and used by porn sites, and from adult site operators who must purchase their .coms in .xxx format, lest someone else do so and hijack traffic. They basically said as much themselves with the “Can You Afford Not To?” video ad campaign. You have to give them credit: When they finally approved the .xxx domain, ICANN created worth out of thin air by allowing domain registrars to run what is essentially a protection scam: “That’s a nice brand you have there. It’d be a real shame if it redirected to a porn site.”

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