Help out a sex worker-run research project, Adult Industry Truth, by taking this survey on trafficking. The survey is for current and former sex workers, clients of sexual services, staff management of industry establishments, and/or social service workers that work with sex workers, to record their observations of trafficking in the industry. xojane disappointed us by posting… Continue reading The Week In Links—August 16th
Tag: research
The Week In Links–March 29th
Louis Vutton has been accused of promoting prostitution in a promo video for its 2013 fall collection, in which models do a poor imitation of street workers on a Parisian set. Sex work abolitionist feminist Joan Smith concludes in the Independent that the Swedish model of criminalizing clients works, based on her experience jumping in a squad car to… Continue reading The Week In Links–March 29th
The Week In Links: November 30
The video above is of Jennifer Lawrence during an interview on Leno giving a clinic on how not to enjoy the American treasure that is (almost dead certainly) Atlanta’s famed dive strip club, the Clermont Lounge. She insults the strippers and asks for change! The Journal of Sex Research published “Pornography Actresses: An Assessment of… Continue reading The Week In Links: November 30
Bogus Research: Stop Forwarding That Story About How Ovulating Strippers Make More Money
Sex work seems to invite entertaining, original economic research. Wouldn’t it be interesting to quantify the change in income for a women who change careers to begin stripping? Or how much money dancers pay out to clubs? What do they do for the local economy? What kind of sales techniques are most effective for strippers?… Continue reading Bogus Research: Stop Forwarding That Story About How Ovulating Strippers Make More Money
Research Proves Men Come to Strip Clubs to Relax
This is the first review on Tits and Sassof an academic research article on stripping. Before I get to the review proper, I wanted to qualify this post with some thoughts on academia’s relationship to stripping. First off, in the spirit of showing all my cards, I used to do academic social science research. Secondly,… Continue reading Research Proves Men Come to Strip Clubs to Relax