Deep Inside: A Study of 10,000 Porn Stars and Their Careers purports to reveal “the truth about what the average performer looks like, what they do on film, and how their role has evolved over the last forty years”, using information gathered from The Internet Adult Film Database (and without talking to any actual sex workers, conveniently).… Continue reading The Week In Links— February 22
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The Week In Links: February 15
Former porn star Coco Brown is training to be an astronaut. And no, journalists, it is not so she can have sex in space. In “Thank God” news, a Washington judge permanently blocked a three-time felon and current inmate’s request for personal information attached to the licenses of over 200 area strippers. The inmate described himself… Continue reading The Week In Links: February 15
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
The Week In Links: July 13
“The Stripper” celebrated its 5oth anniversary of topping the charts this week. STOP EVERYTHING—there will be a sequel to Magic Mike. We like the sound of it being “bigger.” (Wink wink.) Texas police publicly held down and beat a pregnant woman with an outstanding prostitution charge. Officials maintain that the three officers involved “followed procedure.” Octomom Nadya Suleman… Continue reading The Week In Links: July 13
The Week in Links: February 24
Cherry, a film co-written by porn performer Lorelei Lee and former sex worker Stephen Elliot, premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival last week. Tracy Clark-Flory of Salon.com spoke with Lux Alptraum, the new CEO of porn blog Fleshbot. Alptraum took over the site a few weeks ago when it split from Gawker Media. Though it doesn’t start off on… Continue reading The Week in Links: February 24