Renowned 70s porn star Harry Reems died this Tuesday. Apparently, you can tell a lot about a state or country by the porn it favors. The state of Kentucky has an unexpected fondness for hentai, and Britain is into girls who can squirt. Russia has a thing for Sasha Grey. Tomorrow there is a book release… Continue reading Week In Links–March 22
Tag: Canada
The Week in Links–March 8th
International Sex Workers’ Rights Day was this week, on March third, and it came with a whole slew of links. Maggie’s Toronto, The Toronto Sex Workers’ Action Project, produced a press release for the occasion in which street workers demand full decriminalization of their lives. Many sex workers honored the day by creating a hash tag on… Continue reading The Week in Links–March 8th
The Week in Links–March 1st
Vice mag contributor Helen Rimmel did a photo essay on South Mumbai sex workers who are peer teachers on HIV, STDs, and women’s rights in the community. Ignore Rimmel’s offensive attempts at a narrative—“Life in the red light districts is…pretty much like living in a giant toilet bowl full of syringes and awful people”—and enjoy the photos… Continue reading The Week in Links–March 1st
Dogs & Dollars
Here’s Evelyne’s Claus the weinerdog just before attempting to rip the new unrippable Canadian bills. His money-maker is an Ontario escort (“Student by day, ‘ho by night.”)
The Week In Links: July 27
Indian sex workers who could not get visas to attend the International HIV/AIDS Conference in Washington, D.C., held a parallel meeting in Kolkata this week. Over 800 sex workers and activists from over 41 countries participated. Canadian strip clubs and massage parlors announced plans to recruit at high school job fairs now that the government has discontinued visas… Continue reading The Week In Links: July 27