I was initially really impressed by This Girl’s Life. The idea of a sassy, intelligent woman who does her job and doesn’t seem to take it too seriously really made me smile. I like when people treat sex work like a job, because that doesn’t happen in every film. Then I kept watching—it gets crazy!… Continue reading This Girl’s Life (2003)
Tag: partners of sex workers
The Weekly Unwrap
Thanks for spending the week with us. Enjoy your holiday weekend, Americans and Canadians, and we’ll see you next Tuesday. Charlotte Shane asks Can You Trust Your Sex Worker? In Praise of the Man Who Doesn’t Get Strip Clubs Catherine responds to the Complex listicle: Top 50 Strip Clubs: A Dancer Responds Pioneering women of… Continue reading The Weekly Unwrap
Is this real?
A while ago I stumbled across this wikiHow article on dating strippers. It gives nine easy “steps” for snagging the showgirl of your dreams—which are actually useless, demeaning and stereotype-laced suggestions for how to be one of those obnoxious time wasters that we all talk shit about in the dressing room. Like this, for example,… Continue reading Is this real?
A Conversation With Lusty Day
I love it when a plan comes together, don’t you? So, here’s the tea: I went from Dallas, TX, to the Desiree Alliance conference in Las Vegas on a bus last summer. By myself. Twenty-four hours or so of quiet and calm before the storm that Las Vegas always is. I remember sitting somewhere in… Continue reading A Conversation With Lusty Day