In this week’s magnificent, BFD news, an Australian prostitute won her discrimination lawsuit against a hotel that kicked her out because of her (legal) profession, not because of any disruptive behavior. American news media was all over it, apparently rubbing it in the faces of American prostitutes, who are so, so far away from having… Continue reading The Week In Links: August 10
Tag: Prostitution
Blue (2012)
Free from the constraints of network and cable television, the web series has been long touted as the next big thing in entertainment: Content intended for distribution online can be cheaply produced and avoid the ratings system entirely. Without time slots to fill, they can also range in length from feature films to a series… Continue reading Blue (2012)
The Week in Links: July 6
This video of Olivia Munn and Bethenny Frankel trying to pole dance hurts my soul a little. Leave it to professionals, ladies. Porn star James Deen swears that he’s not fucking Lindsay Lohan, and that if he was, “I think I would tell everybody.” GQ ran a profile of him anyway. Adult businesses in Canada can no… Continue reading The Week in Links: July 6
The Week in Links: June 29
With the release of Magic Mike, the new Steven Soderbergh and Channing Tatum film that draws from Tatum’s real-life former sex industry career, articles on male strippers have become the next big thing this week. Here, five male strippers review the film, and here, male strippers in Vegas discuss their hopes that the film will help revive their… Continue reading The Week in Links: June 29
The Week In Links: June 15
An off-duty Broward County deputy (Christian Benenati, pictured) solicited an undercover cop from his own department for prostitution, and was arrested. HAHA. Our own Charlotte Shane wrote this thoughtful essay about wealth for The New Inquiry. And Bubbles wrote about obstacles sex workers encounter trying to get paid without cash on Forbes.com The Angry Stripper, Sarah Tressler, is on… Continue reading The Week In Links: June 15