Tag: Taxes

The Week In Links: April 13

Immani Love’s “Exotic Dancer (Playground Poetry)” is “Erotic Poetry performed on a public playground with [a] trained pole dancer.” Take the four minutes and treat yourself to this amazing poem song. Trust us. Buzzfeed interviewed Melissa Gira Grant about the tax-filing habits of sex workers. Saskatchewan’s anti-strip club laws are so strict, Saskatoon won’t even… Continue reading The Week In Links: April 13

The Week in Links: January 27

The German town of Bonn has declared that its prostitution meters—a means to tax commercial sex—are a success. Rebecca Hall plays a “free-spirited, seemingly ditzy Florida stripper aspiring to make it as a cocktail waitress in Vegas” in the new Stephen Frears movie Lay the Favorite. Just like in real life, strippers aren’t always who… Continue reading The Week in Links: January 27

The Texas “Pole Tax” and the Myth of Secondary Effects

This past August, Texas’ Supreme Court upheld the 2007 “pole tax.” Also known as the “stripper tax,” it is a $5 per patron entry fee that is supposed to go towards low-income health insurance and assistance for victims of sexual assault. Currently there are an estimated 169 strip clubs in Texas (according to TUSCL, it’s… Continue reading The Texas “Pole Tax” and the Myth of Secondary Effects

The Week in Links: September 30

Two Brazilian pole dance champs held an “impromptu dance-battle” at a Rio de Janeiro dance studio. Sino Weibo, the Chinese version of Alexa DiCarlo, was outed as a 31-year old married man living in Hangzou. He was fined 500 renminbi (about $79) for “cheating the public with fabricated facts” and “disrupting social order.” Pervs from around the country convened last weekend… Continue reading The Week in Links: September 30