Stormy Daniels’ Make America Horny Again is the tour that won’t stop—as she chugs from city to city, local coverage follows. Dozens of cities later, the coverage of her tour is getting a bit formulaic. Here’s the formula local writers tend to use when covering a Stormy appearance: cursory explanation of Stormy’s newsworthiness + ironic… Continue reading The Maine Millennial: The Charming Columnist that Casually Understands that Sex Work is Labor
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Actually, the Detroit Police Department Visited Stormy Daniels First
Stormy Daniels’ performance in Columbus, Ohio last week wasn’t the first to get interrupted by a vice squad. On April 18, her performance in Detroit was also paid a visit by the Detroit Police Department Vice Squad. They appeared between her first and second performance, shortly after the majority of journalists had already left to… Continue reading Actually, the Detroit Police Department Visited Stormy Daniels First
The Stormy Daniels Effect, Part II: Post SESTA/FOSTA Edition
When I first identified “The Stormy Daniels Effect” here at Tits and Sass, my theory about the power of sex worker class-consciousness, the Stormy Daniels media cyclone was just beginning to brew. This week, after her 60 Minutes interview on Sunday night, it briefly became a full on news cycle shit storm. Commentary on Daniels… Continue reading The Stormy Daniels Effect, Part II: Post SESTA/FOSTA Edition
SESTA Vs. Stormy Daniels
The fact that porn workers have always been popular scapegoats for the broadest strokes of politics and media is hardly news for those who work in the sex industry. There are myths claiming pornography leads to violence and there is the historical fact that porn workers have protected our civil rights. Protecting our First Amendment… Continue reading SESTA Vs. Stormy Daniels
The Stormy Daniels Effect: When Prostitutes Unite, Powerful Men Tremble
It is now public knowledge that President Donald Trump’s attorney allegedly paid porn actress Stormy Daniels $130,000 for something. Although Daniels has, in the past, made mention of an affair with Trump, she now coyly denies it. On Jimmy Kimmel, she once again subtly suggested that the affair did indeed take place, holding a puppet… Continue reading The Stormy Daniels Effect: When Prostitutes Unite, Powerful Men Tremble