Hugh Hefner: Rapist And Revolutionary

Content warning: this post contains brief references to rape and abuse.  Hugh Hefner died. Of course he did. Dude was 91. When my castmate announced it after rehearsal, I didn’t feel shock at the news. Hefner may as well have died when he stopped being the editor of Playboy magazine. Or when The Girls Next… Continue reading Hugh Hefner: Rapist And Revolutionary

Fabrication Used To Scam Sex Worker Community Funds

5/22: THIS WAS A FABRICATION. WE ARE DEEPLY SORRY, ESPECIALLY TO OUR READERS WHO ARE SEX WORKING WOMEN OF COLOR, AND TO THE WOMAN WHOSE PHOTOGRAPH WAS USED FRAUDULENTLY. SEX WORKER COLLECTIVE FUND LYSISTRATA HAS STATED IT WILL RETURN ANY DONATIONS GIVEN TO THEM FOR THIS. LILY FURY IS A FORMER CONTRIBUTOR, AS WERE HER… Continue reading Fabrication Used To Scam Sex Worker Community Funds

Big Little Lies Protecting White Virginity

"A 16-year old white girl from Monterey? Wolf Blitzer is gonna saddle that up." Abigail (Kathryn Newton) contemplates auctioning off her virginity for charity.

[Content warning: this piece includes general discussion of rape and domestic violence.] Maybe every rich little white girl should auction off her virginity in support of Amnesty International, the way Abigail Carlson (Kathryn Newton), teenage daughter of HBO’s Big Little Lies protagonist Madeline Mackenzie, proposes to do. Abigail’s plot line gained little more than an… Continue reading Big Little Lies Protecting White Virginity

Support Hos: Westworld (2016)

Thandie Newton as Maeve, the bad-ass robot Black sex worker heroine who keeps us invested in this glossy Game of Thrones replacement wannabe.

by Clara and Caty [Content warning: some discussion of rape. Also, spoiler warning.] Clara: Westworld is a science fiction western thriller created and produced by Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy. JJ Abrams is also a producer, so think Jurassic Park meets Firefly with a dash of Lost. As with its predecessors—Blade Runner. Battlestar Galactica, etc—Westworld… Continue reading Support Hos: Westworld (2016)

The Oakland Police Department isn’t an Anomaly

In just a few weeks’ time, an astonishing pattern of misconduct has been uncovered in the Oakland Police Department that might shock even our readers. At the center of the scandal is a teenage sex worker who goes by Celeste Guap. She alleges that at least three Oakland PD officers sexually exploited her when she was underage.… Continue reading The Oakland Police Department isn’t an Anomaly