Sex Work: Your Surefire Way To An Oscar

According to The Frisky, if you’re looking to score an Oscar for Best Actress, you might want to look into playing a sex worker. Now if only sex workers who transitioned into mainstream movie work could get the same deal — though, come to think…

We’re All Sex Workers. Except When We’re Not.

Add another file to the we’re all sex workers database: Bonnie Ruberg, of the Village Voice‘s Click Me, argues that getting paid to do hands-on cybersex research makes you a sex worker. Cause, you know, you’re getting paid to have sex.

Much as we appreciate the sex…

Why I’m Glad American Apparel Has Porn Star Models

American Apparel, long known for its softcore porn-style advertisements, is slightly less well known for using actual porn stars as models. And while some may scoff at the inevitability of it all, or see it as a sign of American Apparel’s slow but sure decline towards sheer…

We’re Right Here!

SUBMITTED BY $PREAD MAGAZINE: [H]ow about the possibility that some of us have professional-strength sex drives?

The above quote, courtesy of ever-amazing Debauchette, may be the only good thing to come out of all the hype…

The “Former Stripper” Phenomenon

Imagine, for a moment, that you’re a college student. During the summer, you take a job as a cashier so that you’ll have some money to support yourself. After college, you go on to law school, eventually becoming a high-powered lawyer. But wherever you go,…

BlackBook Magazine: Once A Stripper, Always A Stripper

Okay, maybe BlackBook thinks they’re being funny here, but the joke is so tired we can’t even fake a laugh:

Showtime is most certainly stepping up its game. The HBO manqué recently picked up 12 episodes of “United States of Tara,” the story of a mother…

Legalized Sex Work Does Not Make More Sex Workers

In the five years since New Zealand decriminalized sex work, the number of sex workers has stayed roughly the same. What’s that, you say? Making prostitution legal doesn’t suddenly make it vastly more appealing to all women, everywhere? You mean there are reasons aside from illegality…

Educated Consumer: Paying For Sex

Looking to pay (or get paid) for lovin’? Do your research first, and find out what city will give you the best bargain — or the biggest haul.

For instance: an hour of loving with a lady of the night will cost you $292 in New…

Mr. Spitzer’s Prostitute, and Other Faux Pases

We’ve mostly refrained from commenting on the Spitzer story because, you know, what is there to say? (Well, also because I was either at SXSW or in recovery from SXSW for the most important part of the news cycle.) But then we stumbled across this NY…

Sex Work is Just a Job

Our friends over at Sex in the Public Square are hosting a discussion on sex work, trafficking, and human rights this week. It’s a fascinating discussion, full of lots of complex issues, and it’s inspired me to say something I’ve been thinking about for a while:…

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