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CNN: Make $2K a Night Stripping in North Dakota!

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Bubbles
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If I’ve ever danced in a club I didn’t expect to see on CNN.com, it’s Whispers in Williston, North Dakota. But here it is, with some pretty amazing claims about the money to be made there. $1500 on a slow night? Damn!

Williston has been a solid stop for traveling strippers for years. But these claims are pretty grand! I know some good hustlers, and I think the best night any of them reported from here was $1200 (which is great, especially in a club with no champagne room and where you keep $15/dance). I don’t doubt there are dancers who have made more, but to claim that $1500 is slow rather than exceptional is like being one of those dancers who says she averages $1000 on weekend nights when really she made that much one time and the rest of the time says it’s just “never this slow.” The reality of these easy money clubs in the middle of nowhere is, sometimes, a lot closer to what one of my favorite stripper bloggers experienced in South Dakota last week.

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Someone You Know is a Sex Worker… (It’s me!)

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Natalie
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St. James Infirmary, the famed San Francisco clinic that specifically serves sex workers and their families, kicked off their new ad campaign this past week. After working (unsuccessfully) to advertise the clinic on billboards, the campaign found a home on the San Francisco Muni. Through November 11, 50 SF Muni buses will display their posters, with the tagline “Someone you know is a sex worker.”

(It’s true, by the way. It’s funny how many times, when I’ve shyly come clean about my deep, dirty secret career, the reaction has been not just apathy or curiosity, but a “me too.”)

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The Week in Links: October 21

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suzyhooker
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Diane Passage shares her secrets in a New York Post column this week.

In a New York Post advice column, Diane Passage—”former stripper turned lady of leisure”—shares her secrets for getting men to do what she wants.

A “prostitute orgy” funded by Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been making headlines this week.

New York Assistant Attorney General Alisha Smith has resigned due to allegations by the New York Post that she was moonlighting as a dominatrix.

Steven Hobbs, former Houston security guard, is a suspect in the deaths of at least two sex workers, and the sexual assault of several others.

The Excalibur Hotel in Las Vegas recently opened Night School 4 Girls, a 70-minute pole and burlesque dance class that’s “designed to take the art of seduction to the next level.”

The Young Turks weigh on an Oklahoma City man known as the “video vigilante,” who secretly tapes prostitutes and clients, and then broadcasts the tapes online and exposes the clients to their families.

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The Texas “Pole Tax” and the Myth of Secondary Effects

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Bubbles
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This past August, Texas’ Supreme Court upheld the 2007 “pole tax.” Also known as the “stripper tax,” it is a $5 per patron entry fee that is supposed to go towards low-income health insurance and assistance for victims of sexual assault. Currently there are an estimated 169 strip clubs in Texas (according to TUSCL, it’s closer to 200), and proponents of the new law allege that the revenue will provide $2.5 million annually to rape-survivor programs.

Since its passage in 2007, the tax has been tied up in court battles. The Texas Entertainment Association sued in 2008, stating that the proposed tax would be a violation of the First Amendment. At first the appellate courts upheld that argument, but that decision was reversed by the court’s ruling. In Justice Hecht’s deciding argument, he wrote “The fee is not aimed at any expressive content of nude dancing but at the secondary effects of the expression in the presence of alcohol.”

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We Want More Trans Perspectives!

By
Charlotte Shane
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image via Pretty Queer

We would sincerely love to have more diverse voices on the site but until we find some trans folks generous enough to give us their original writing, we’ll do our best to highlight a few of the pieces already available online. Here’s an excellent one by Morgan M. Page that you should go read in full. Page writes clearly and compellingly about how sex working trans people are simultaneously used for political gain and under-supported by non-sex working trans activists:

Media representations focusing on a single stereotype suck for every oppressed or underrepresented group. That’s totally fair. What’s not fair is when the rest of the community backlashes against this by trying to distance themselves entirely from those represented by the stereotype. At the end of the day, I don’t care if the fact that I and a lot of my friends are or were sex workers makes your grandmother uncomfortable. What I care about is the fact that sex work is still illegal in so many countries, leading to more violence, stigma, and murders of trans and cis sex workers, yet there’s been little effort by mainstream trans (or queer) organizations to help sex worker organizations fight for their rights.

If you feel inspired to share your own thoughts about this or related issues, we would love to be your platform. You can find out more about contributing here.

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