In August 2004, NATALIE McLENNAN was working for and dating now-convicted pimp Jason Itzler when he auditioned and recruited a 19-year-old named Ashley Dupre into his high-end prostitution ring, New York Confidential. In her forthcoming book, “The Price: My Rise and Fall as Natalia, New York’s #1 Escort,” McLennan recalls how she befriended and groomed [...]
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advice for aspiring call girls. (debauchette)
Posted in sex work on Aug 21st, 2008
So, I’ve been getting mail. Maybe you’ve been inspired by Belle de Jour/Secret Diary of a Call Girl, or maybe it’s the media surrounding the Ashley/Spitzer spectacle, or maybe it’s Radar’s recent “Secrets of a Hipster Hooker.” You want to be an upscale escort.
I’m not going to encourage it and I’m not going to discourage [...]
A British take on the world’s oldest profession.
. . .when a number of high-profile memoirs have turned out to be, to some degree or in their entirety, not what they professed to be. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find them in the Ho section of my local Barnes & Noble (the subtitle of the American edition, earnest [...]
Desiree Alliance conference: June 16-20, Chicago, IL.
Posted in Events, Fetish & Kink, sex work on May 27th, 2008
~Desiree Alliance Presents~
In partnership with BAYSWAN, Sex Workers Outreach Project-USA, SWANK, H.I.P.S. Different Avenues, COYOTE, Best Practices Policy Project, $pread Magazine, St. James Infirmary, Harm Reduction Coalition, PONY, SWOP-Chicago, SWOP-Las Vegas, SWOP-Los Angeles, SWOP- Northern California, SWOP-Arizona, SWOP-Portland, & SWOP-EAST
“Pulling Back the Sheets: Sex, Work and Social Justice”
July 16-20, 2008 Chicago, IL
REGISTER NOW!
The Desiree Alliance [...]
“…in general, the men of San Francisco make delightful clients”
Posted in sex work on May 22nd, 2008
In this week’s column (”San Francisco escorts: No ordinary johns“) violet blue interviews sex worker Karly Kirschner on San Francisco’s unique market:
They are less obsessed with orgasm than men who, in other parts of the world, cussed at themselves or me if they came too quickly or not at all. Often they are with me [...]
Sex Work 101 was inspired by conversations that happened during the Women, Action and the Media 2008 conference held in Cambridge, MA from March 28-30, 2008.
I gave a talk at WAM called Sex Workers and Media Representation (click to see notes for the workshop), and questions during and after the talk made me realize [...]
For Immediate Release
Contact: Elizabeth Wood
Email: elizabeth (at) sexinthepublicsquare (dot) org
Co-founder, SexInThePublicSquare.org
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Nassau Community College
Sex In The Public Square Presents:
Sex Work, Trafficking, and Human Rights: A Public Forum
New York, February 20, 2008 - Ten prominent sex worker advocates, writers, researchers will be publicly discussing the issues of sex work and trafficking from [...]
Joseph Epstein reviews Karen Abbott’s new book, Sin in the Second City, about the Everleigh Club , one of the best known Chicago cathouses of the early 20th century:
The characters of Minna and Ada Everleigh and their thoughtful way of going about their business are intricately delineated by Ms. Abbott, who, I think it fair [...]
Crossover in sex work (Dominatrix Next Door)
Posted in domination, sex work, sexbloggers, sexblogs on May 9th, 2007
…A common conceit is that clients can pay me for my time and I can do whatever I like. Ugh! I can assure you of two things, one in line with the stereotype and one in opposition. First, at any given time I would probably rather be reading a book in the park; if someone [...]
Bound, Not Gagged
Posted in sex work, sexbloggers on May 6th, 2007
A new blog by, and for, sex workers:
BoundnotGagged is a space for these voices to be heard. It is a place for sex workers to respond to the way that they’re portrayed in the media, the way that sexist laws are used to undermine women’s rights and their feelings about the ethical dilemma of exposing [...]
Sex Workers’ Art on Display
Posted in $pread, Events, Fetish & Kink, art, audacia ray, sex work on Apr 30th, 2007
SOHO. On a rainy Sunday afternoon recently, a dozen young women gathered to transform the tools of their sex work trade into works of art. Over cupcakes and strawberries, they swapped stories as they nailed, glue-gunned, painted, pierced, googly-eyed and gashed variously sized toys. Beads scattered to the floor. “We should get some slave to [...]
By MARTIN FACKLER and CHOE SANG-HUN
TOKYO, April 17 — A group of Japanese researchers on Tuesday publicly challenged Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s denials that Japan’s military coerced women into sexual slavery during World War II, citing reports compiled by Allied investigators immediately after the war.
The reports, based partly on interrogations of Japanese prisoners, were originally [...]
Sex Worker Visions II (Waking Vixen)
Posted in $pread, Events, Fetish & Kink, art, audacia ray, audacia ray, nyc, sex work on Apr 16th, 2007
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One Sex Worker Nation Under Dildo
Posted in $pread, art, audacia ray, audacia ray, dildo, sex toys, sex work on Apr 15th, 2007
This afternoon a group of New York City-based sex workers gathered at Arena Studios, the co-sponsor of Sex Worker Visions II, the second annual show of sex workers’ art that I’m curating. New online sex toy shop Vibrator.com generously provided us with a bag full of dildos for us to defile in the name [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — High-priced call girls always seem to have their little black books. Deborah Jeane Palfrey, accused of running an illegal escort service in the nation’s capital, has 46 pounds of phone records.
And her offer — or threat — to turn them over to the media has some in Washington playing a guessing game [...]
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Amsterdam’s sex workers came to work early on Saturday to offer a free look at the city’s famed red-light district.
Hundreds of wide-eyed visitors queued in the sunshine to enter the dimly-lit sex clubs and peep shows that draw thousands to the city and to snoop around prostitutes’ neon-lit boudoirs.
“I [...]
$Pread Magazine Reading 2/19 @ Bowery Poetry Club
Posted in $pread, Events, Fetish & Kink, nyc, sex, sex work on Feb 9th, 2007
$pread, the magazine produced by and for sex workers and their allies, is pleased to launch our eighth issue at the Bowery Poetry Club!
This multimedia event takes place from 8 to 9:30pm on Monday, February 19th, 2007. Expect performance, literary reading, slideshows and more, as past contributors, artists and featured people take to the stage. [...]












































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