There were almost 600 crimes committed against sex workers in Ireland last year. A (belated) article on SWOP-LA’s International Sex Workers’ Rights Day Celebration. Amber Rose, model, radio personality, and former Kanye girlfriend, says she was a stripper at age 15. Here’s a list of the 10 Best Prostitute Movies—but, ahem, it’s already been done.… Continue reading The Week in Links: March 18
Tag: Prostitution
The Week in Links: March 11
The Rev Lia Scholl tells ministers how to relate to sex workers while reporter Nicole Greenfield examines the problems with the gospel of “Hookers for Jesus.” On Charlie Sheen’s partners: “A woman’s active embrace of the fame monster or participation in the sex industry, we seem to say, means that she compromises her right not… Continue reading The Week in Links: March 11
The Week in Links: March 4
Studies are being conducted to evaluate whether some lubes might increase risk of HIV transmission. Louisiana currently requires citizens convicted of having oral or anal sex in exchange for money register as sex offenders. But the law is now being challenged. (Deon Haywood, who is quoted in the linked article, spoke on this very same… Continue reading The Week in Links: March 4
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)
Oh, To Be a Housewife!
“I wonder what kind of girls do that kind of work, and how they get into it.” Victoria Layton is bored. She’s middle-aged by 1968 standards, she used to have a wildly interesting life. Now she’s in Connecticut and she’s fuckin’ bored. She’s so bored that she spends most of the beginning of The Secret… Continue reading Oh, To Be a Housewife!