An Intimate Life might not exist if not for The Sessions, last year’s Oscar-nominated film fictionalizing the experience of sex surrogate Cheryl Cohen Greene and her client Mark O’Brien. From the blurbs by actors Helen Hunt and John Hawkes to the book’s pictures of Cohen Greene posing next to the stars, it’s obvious the publishers were… Continue reading An Intimate Life: Sex, Love, and My Journey As A Surrogate Partner (2013)
Tag: The Sessions
The Sessions (2012)
The Sessions is a fictionalized account of real life writer Mark O’Brien’s foray into the sex trade—er, ahem, I mean NOT the sex trade—through the hiring of a sex surrogate with whom he can lose his virginity. The dauntingly bright, disabled Mark, played by foxy and ageless John Hawkes, finds himself in the stern yet… Continue reading The Sessions (2012)
The Week In Links: October 19
Seattle feminist group Grrl Army made the news with a spectacular bright pink graffiti paint job on a closed motel. Slogans promoting sex workers’ rights covered the building. The video above comes from KOMO. British activist Kat Banyard has bad feels about sex work (“The sex industry held itself up as the promised land of feminism”). Leave… Continue reading The Week In Links: October 19
The Week In Links: September 28
These dinoheels would be perfect for Jo Weldon’s Godzilla routine. The woman with our favorite nom de plume, Robin Hustle, has another post up at Jezebel. This one is “An Interview With the Man Who Pays Me to Burn His Feet With Cigarettes While He Masturbates.” London sex work cooperative XTalk Project Limited would like… Continue reading The Week In Links: September 28