Let’s try a thought experiment. ‘Every year thousands of people are promised a job as a dancer, but sadly, they end up here.’ The curtain rises on someone working in a tailor’s shop. That doesn’t quite work the same way, does it? We don’t automatically assume that it would be sad to work in a… Continue reading Quote of the Week
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My Sex Work Bucket List: Charlotte
For the right type of woman, sex work is contagious. Maybe she can’t resist stripping after finding out a friend is doing it, or maybe, if she’s like me, all it takes is one article about an upscale escort to render it a personal life goal. I think of myself as relatively well-rounded in the… Continue reading My Sex Work Bucket List: Charlotte
In My Skin (2008)
In My Skin by Australian Kate Holden is an example of the “my drug whore hell” memoirs to which I am both attracted and repelled. I’m an IV drug-using sex worker but do not subscribe to the NA model of addiction-as-disease and don’t define my life as hell. Most media doesn’t show anything true about… Continue reading In My Skin (2008)
The Week in Links: October 7
Melissa Gorga of Real Housewives of New Jersey denies rumors that she is a former stripper. Two Pakistani police officers got caught on the wrong side of a sting operation. They were arrested at the Multan brothel, where a madam claimed that they had been extorting money. Courtney Love has announced that she’s working on a memoir—we hope… Continue reading The Week in Links: October 7
Quote of the Week
“Harry Reid will have to pry the cat-house keys from my cold dead hands” says brothel own Dennis Hof. (image via)