December 2009
10 posts
Watch(via kimberleecline)
Watchfilthygorgeousthings:
The music video to end all music videos: ‘Paradise Circus’ from Massive Attack’s forthcoming album Heligoland (out Feb. 9th). Vocals by Hope Sandoval (Mazzy Star).
It features an absolutely entrancing Georgina Spelvin, performer/vixen from the 1973 porn flick The Devil in Miss Jones. (via debauchette) (F/lthyGorgeousTh/ngs)
Of course -- Tiger porn! →
“As Josephine says, “Sex work is difficult to articulate; it’s the...”
– On Blogging Sex Workers
“There are a lot of different projects that sex workers and our allies must work...”
– From Dacia’s Speech
Religious Indian Men Offer Marriage to Prostitutes... →
November 2009
14 posts
“A lot of the johns in the film are actually based on men that these escorts...”
– Sasha Grey
No wonder her performance in The Girlfriend Experience was so terrible; this is the most insightful take on it she can come up with.
“This is not a legal problem. This is not a problem statutory reform can solve....”
– Sex Work Is Not An Invitation To Rape « (via igather) (via robot-heart-politics) (via ericrobertsswagger)
Idea Lab - Why Needle Exchange Is Crucial to AIDS... →
ericrobertsswagger:
katharinec:
Not to mention Hepatitis C, a disease too often pushed under the radar, the efforts to prevent and combat it devastatingly underfunded and stigmatized. In 1994, Switzerland had among the highest incidents of HIV/AIDS and Hep C in all of Europe. Then they implemented a serious, government funded syringe exchange program. Now they have the lowest per capita rate...
“Social justice for girls and young women in the sex trade means having the power...”
– Girls do what they have to do to survive: methods used by girls in the sex trade and street economy to fight back and heal (pdf) from the young women’s empowerment project. (via igather)
The Universal Declaration of Humyn Rights. →
ihatethismess: moreoraleeza: (via sarasponda)
“Why is sex work necessarily more degrading than working at McDonalds, or a ...”
– via Womanist Musings (via ihatethismess) (via igather)
“While there are many reasons why men go to prostitutes, I noticed a few trends...”
– Brooke Magnanti/Belle de Jour
“What’s missing from the public conversation about prostitution — and what...”
– Jezebel
Right. Because the public is pretty hell bent on ignoring such portrayals in spite of fact that plenty of sex worker blogs, activist organizations, and (ahem) certain magazines aren’t catering to to the dichotomy. (But how silly is it to criticize Magnanti for not trying to take this...
“Anti-porn propaganda often implies that sexism originates within the commercial...”
– Gayle Rubin (via lazz) (via igather)
“This lip service expected from every well-adjusted and passably happy prostitute...”
– Indecent Exposure: When Sex Workers Get Outed
“Davis denied forcing the woman to have sex, but admitted in court that he used a...”
– US Marine Acquitted Of Raping Prostitute
Real quality quote from the guy’s lawyer: ”He is glad it’s over,” Macedone said. “It has been very stressful for him.”
“I’ve noticed a new trend. Though trend might be an over exaggeration. What I’ve...”
– Confessions Of A Message Board Hooker!: “Fraud and falsehood only dread examination” (via kimberleecline)
October 2009
1 post
CALL FOR SUBMISISONS—PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY
$PREAD CALL FOR MODELS AND CONTRIBUTORS, ISSUE 5.3
In our upcoming issue, we’re exploring age and aging within the sex industry. Feature pitches (ideas for articles of 2000-3000 words) should be sent to contribute@spreadmagazine.org. We’re particularly interested in finding someone to write a “How To” Guide for escorts and dancers on remaining profitable and in-demand when...
August 2009
8 posts
I don't care who you are
thecurvature:
ohfortheloveofdog:
vindicatedcommunications:
Once you state that you’re terrified of everything the Republicans stand for, I don’t take your political opinion seriously.
It just shows that you’re ignorant or you’ve drank the Kool-Aid and frankly, I don’t want people to be blinding believing such things about either party nor do I think they’re an informed person on politics.
...
“Touch does have healing properties, and it doesn’t need to be sexual in...”
– Can Prostitutes Stop Violent Crime?
“Part of respecting people with sex trade/industry experience is respecting...”
– Thoughts on Being a Good Ally
Sex Radical is a Dirty Word →
(via debaucheddiva)
I’d call Donna Hughes a horse’s ass but frankly, I love horses and, to my knowledge, none of them have ever undertaken a smear campaign on academic sex worker allies. Elizabeth Wood, a lovely and intelligent woman, is not an editor, executive or otherwise, of our magazine. I don’t know where Ms. Hughes got this piece of information—it’s not anywhere...
“I enjoy feeling wanted. Dancing is a great and obvious way to accomplish that....”
– Mandy Morbid, on the Rumpus
Fetish-Friendly Coffee Shop Opening in San... →
infodiva:
If you’d like a little kink with your coffee, then the new Wicked Grounds in San Francisco is your kind of place
China Trust Prostitutes More Than Politicians And... →
“I think prostitutes are amazing people with so much knowledge of human nature...”
– William T. Vollmann
July 2009
18 posts
“Now here’s another in which ‘free’ prostitutes are thought to be ‘exploited’ by...”
– Marketing Stories From Germany
Sex Worker Literati--FREE!
Hosted by Audacia Ray & David Henry Sterry
Happy Ending, 302 Broome Street between Forsyth and Eldridge, in New York City First Thursday of the Month. Doors at 7 pm, reading from 8-10 Portion of proceeds from the bar supports sex workers rights groups
Best-selling author David Henry Sterry and sexuality rights activist Audacia Ray, both former workers in the sex industry, are proud to...
“Any law that criminalizes consensual, sexual adult interactions—sodomy, the sell...”
– Manufacturing Outrage: How To Criminalize Victimless Crimes
“We tried to do it the best way we could,” Dean, 62, told U.S. Judge Jeanne Scott on Monday, just before sentence was pronounced. “We just tried to better everybody and not hurt anybody.”
—Madam Sentenced In Springfield
Sarcasm: ur doin it quite well aktualy
Let me be among the first to congratulate the Washtenaw County Sheriff’s Department on arresting three women in Ypsilanti Township for prostitution recently. (I wish there had been more detail about the planning of the operation.) With these demimondes in the slammer for 48 hours, I for one will sleep better at night.
Now is the time for phase two - arresting high-end prostitutes who...
“In erotic fiction, you’ll probably find truer expressions of female desire than...”
– Kristina Lloyd and Mathilde Madden (via gauntlet)
By “men” surely they must mean “editors, publishers, publicists, and an imaginary market just hungry to pick up dozens of pale pink books with ladies on them.” One would hope a sex worker willing to do a tell-all memoir would know the point is to...
it is so hard
amberlrhea:
abbyjean:
for women to talk about their own lives and experiences without being attacked. even sharing those things with an audience expected to be mostly sypmathetic, or at least expected not to fashion the author’s own words into a weapon to attack the author herself, is a risky and sometimes very dangerous act.
a lot of these problems seem to stem from a reluctance to give any...
“I met so many great women doing cool shit and they were all strippers. These...”
– Another from the Laura Jackson interview
“I grew up unattractive, but I felt really sexual. I liked the idea of men...”
– The Laura Jackson Experience
great interview from The Rumpus
“Utah is one of six states that increases penalties for an HIV positive offender...”
– Condom Police: Examining the Rhetoric Around Condom Use and Sex Workers
Sex Work Literati
Cannot wait
from WakingVixen
Sex Worker Literati Hosted by Audacia Ray & David Henry Sterry at Happy Ending in New York City First Thursday of the Month FREE Behind the bumps and the grinds, under the garters and the pasties, in between the booze fueled clients and the stiletto heels there is in the exchange of sex for money a power dynamic that opens a window into the soul. Sex Worker...
“In writing about the sex industry, it seems that women have to more carefully...”
– Waking Vixen » Book Review: Zak Smith’s We Did Porn (via melissa)
The fabulous Stephany Ashley will be reviewing this book for our next issue! It sounds great…
“Our right to fantasize ought not be contingent on the moral content of our...”
– Child Porn, Animal Cruelty Porn, and the Right to Imagine - Wendy Kaminer (via dacia)
I’m so happy to see this discussed reasonably in a magazine like The Atlantic. Great (ie terrifying) article.