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)
Tag: Prostitution
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: January 11
NPR has a story on how Australia’s mining boom is good for business in the brothels of Perth. Our condolences to the family and friends of dancer Lauren Block, who died this week from injuries sustained in a fall from the balcony of Christie’s Cabaret in Cleveland, OH. Well, it’s been five months since we had… Continue reading The Week In Links: January 11
American Courtesans (2012)
The tagline for American Courtesans describes it as a “documentary that takes you into the lives of American Sex Workers” and telling “a different kind of American story…” The film is (thankfully) less ambitious in scope, focusing on high-end escorts instead of the entirety of the sex trades. What American Courtesans does, and does powerfully,… Continue reading American Courtesans (2012)
The Week In Links: September 28
These dinoheels would be perfect for Jo Weldon’s Godzilla routine. The woman with our favorite nom de plume, Robin Hustle, has another post up at Jezebel. This one is “An Interview With the Man Who Pays Me to Burn His Feet With Cigarettes While He Masturbates.” London sex work cooperative XTalk Project Limited would like… Continue reading The Week In Links: September 28