[ November 10, 2009 12:00 PM to November 16, 2009 8:00 PM. ]
Time: 12:00-8:00 PM
Location: Washington Square Park
This month, if you see seven shipping containers in Washington Square Park, that’s the Journey project, sponsored by the Helen Bamber Foundation:
The aim of Journey is to bring the reality of the sex trafficking industry to the forefront of social consciousness and empower people to take action. Shackles bind perpetrators [...]
Posted in sex work on May 19th, 2009
Canadian journalist Victor Malarek’s book The Johns: Sex for Sale and the Men Who Buy It is a distinctive contribution to the ongoing conversation about sex work. While we tend to focus on the women who work in the sex trade (as Malarek himself did in his earlier book, The Natashas), here he trains his [...]
Posted in craigslist, sex work on May 14th, 2009
This is a collaborative press release – please distribute and repost widely!
Contact:
Dylan Wolfe – Sex Workers Action New York (SWANK), swank@riseup.net
Will Rockwell – $pread Magazine, will@spreadmagazine.org
Audacia Ray – Sex Work Awareness (SWA), aray@sexworkawareness.org
Susan Blake – Prostitutes of New York (PONY), pony@panix.com
Michael Bottoms – Sex Workers Outreach Project – New York City (SWOP-NYC), info@swop-nyc.org
With Craigslist’s recent [...]
Posted in Sex2.0 on Apr 29th, 2009
Sex 2.0 May 9, 2009
Now in our second year, Sex 2.0, a one-day unconference, will take place on May 9, 2009 in Washington, D.C. Sex 2.0 will focus on the intersection of social media, feminism, and sexuality. How is social media enabling people to learn, grow, and connect sexually? How is sexual expression tied to [...]
Posted in movies on Apr 16th, 2009
Steven Soderbergh’s The Girlfriend Experience opens May 22nd. The Tribeca Film Festival will have a screening which will include a Q&A with the director and lead actors Sasha Grey and Chris Santos on April 29th.
Go to The Frisky to see the trailer (my site is too racy for Hulu, so it’s blocked).
Tags: movies, Sasha Grey, [...]
Posted in sex on Apr 15th, 2009
BOSTON — Boston police are investigating a shooting death inside a luxury hotel in the city.
Commissioner Ed Davis said that the 26-year-old victim from New York City was offering massage services through Craigslist.
Police believe that she may have been involved with prostitution and that there was an attempted robbery.
The victim, whose name was not released, [...]
Sex 2.0 May 9, 2009
Sex 2.0 will focus on the intersection of social media, feminism, and sexuality. How is social media enabling people to learn, grow, and connect sexually? How is sexual expression tied to social activism? Does the concept of transparency online offer new opportunities or present new roadblocks — or both? These questions, [...]
Posted in sex work on Mar 12th, 2009
March 10, 2009 – The National Coalition for Sexual Freedom NCSF is a proud member of the Stop the Arrests Coalition. Spokesperson Susan Wright has participated in organizing meetings and spoke out atthe Sheridan Square Rally on February 21st, 2009, against the false arrests of gay men and professional Dominatrices for prostitution.
There is good news [...]
Posted in sex work on Feb 6th, 2009
by Tracy Quan, The Daily Beast
“I’ve seen it before,” says Linda, “during the tech bust in 2002. Women who thought they would always make a decent living in the tech sector lost their jobs.” They came looking to Linda’s industry for freelance work, and now it’s happening again: professional women whose cubicle-bound careers have been [...]
On a recent Wednesday evening, Robert was with a client in Greenwich Village. It was a first-timer who’d called him a few days earlier to arrange a meeting at a bar on 9th Street so they could speak face-to-face before closing the deal he’d proposed earlier.
When Robert arrived, the man, in his mid-60s and, Robert [...]
Posted in movies on Jan 27th, 2009
The advantage of seeing the Ashton Kutcher-starring Spread at Sundance, as opposed to in theaters down the road, isn’t just the fact that director David Mackenzie hasn’t yet been forced to neuter the film’s skintastic sex scenes his 2003 Young Adam was shaved down for far less to get an R rating here in the [...]
Posted in sexwork on Dec 16th, 2008
NYC Vigil to End Violence Against Sex Workers
December 17th, 7-8pm in the center of Washington Square Park (Google Maps). Fore more events around the country, go here.
Tags: Events, nyc, sex work
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National March for Sex Worker Rights
More information, and to see a list of all related events, at SWOPUSA.
Tags: Events, sex work
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Posted in sex work on Dec 3rd, 2008
Call for Submissions: Whore Lover (working title)
Deadline: March 4th 2009
Compiled/Edited by Sadie Lune
Whore Lover: Lovers and Partners of Sex Workers Speak
An anthology of non-fiction essays written by the non-paying partners (queer-trans-straight) of sex workers about their experiences and feelings regarding their unique position in the marketplace of love.
From casual dates, to long term relationships, to [...]
Posted in sex on Nov 20th, 2008
Consider making a holiday donation to the Ali Forney Center, NYC’s homeless shelter for LGBT youth.
Judy McGuide on How Not to handle meeting his parents (CNN)
“The first thing you need to do is get the skinny from your man. What are his parents like? Are they churchgoers? Recovering hippies? Military? You need to know what [...]
Posted in sex on Nov 19th, 2008
Sweden removes transvestism and other ’sexual behaviours’ from list of diseases (Pinknews)
“Some felt that the inclusion of transvestism, sadomasochism, fetishism, fetishistic transvestism, sexual preference disorders and gender identity disorder in young people led to social stigma.”
New law to criminalise men who pay for sex with trafficked women (Guardian)
“Under proposals to be published today by the [...]
. . . Mr. Garcia’s approach is at odds with a growing global awareness of the harms of prostitution, including its adverse effects on the safety of nonprostituting women as well as those in it. Prosecuting johns does make a difference, as Sweden has discovered. Sweden levies serious legal penalties against johns whom the Swedish [...]
Posted in sex on Nov 11th, 2008
Keith Olbermann: Gay marriage — a question of love
If you really need to see more naked Daniel Radcliffe pictures.
Bonni Ramabatan on Orgasms Without Organs
Fifty Years of Popular Songs Condensed Into Single Sentences (via karinalongworth).
“Like Race” Arguments by Janet E. Halley (Google Books, via sexartandpolitics).
slit’s Open letter to white activists on white Left movements and the [...]
Posted in sex on Nov 10th, 2008
National Prop 8 Protests: Queers United has a listing of Prop 8 protests and rallies around the country.
Bound Not Gagged on the Craigslist erotic services crackdown.
Esquire on DIY porn.
Friday night, Charlie Rose rebroadcast his conversation with the Emanuel brothers (Rahm, Ezekiel & Ari).
11th Feminist Carnival of Sexual Freedom and Autonomy
For Your Nympomation, maker of sex [...]
Posted in sexwork on Oct 22nd, 2008
By EVELYN NIEVES
SAN FRANCISCO AP — In this live-and-let-live town, where medical marijuana clubs do business next to grocery stores and an annual fair celebrates sadomasochism, prostitutes could soon walk the streets without fear of arrest.
San Francisco would become the first major U.S. city to decriminalize prostitution if voters next month approve Proposition K — [...]
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 [...]
. . .Seeing Panty Tree’s vulnerability made me realize the value of my work. I was there to fulfill his fantasy yes. But I was also there to validate him as a person and to validate his desires.
Despite the fetish theme the session felt more like therapy than domination. Over and over PT would ask [...]
I saw this on the Chemistry list and have permission from the casting director to repost this notice. Here’s a post from Cinematical with a little more background.
-Viviane
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Steven Soderbergh is directing an independent film that will explore expanded ideas of intimacy and relationships and is looking for non-actors to interview to play fictional characters. [...]
Posted in sex, transgender on Aug 22nd, 2008
Dressing like a harlot isn’t the half of it on Village stroll
By Laurie Mittelmann
On Staten Island, 20 wigs crowd the public housing unit of transgender model and prostitute Shawn Rachel, 28.
In the West Village on a recent late night/early morning, long, straight black hair, pushed back with Dolce & Gabbana sunglasses, framed her face. It [...]
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 [...]
Aren’t we past this, yet? Is this even a question? Are journalists so incompetent, so incapable of carrying out the most basic research, that they can only assume that sex, for us, is intolerable? Or are these journalists really just uninterested in sex themselves and can’t resist transferring their sex-is-gross attitudes to the women who [...]
Posted in del.icio.us on Jun 5th, 2008
Junkbuzzed: sex, lies, and .jpgs
Science …has shown us that there are three distinct types of sex-trolls plying their warez. Yahoos, Cheeseballs, and Douchebags – the holy trinity, the true McFuries of Craigslist posters.
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Dial S&M For Marnie | SpoutBlog
What neither the feminists nor cinephiles seem to appreciate is that Marnie is one of the [...]
Posted in del.icio.us on Jun 2nd, 2008
Maemo WordPy
Maemo WordPy is a offline Wordpress and Blogger client. With this application you will be able to use your Internet Tablet (Nokia 770, Nokia N800 or Nokia N810) for write in your Wordpress or Blogger blog.
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hey porn mags: stop stealing my shit. « debauchette
Yeah, that means you, Tight Magazine. It’s appropriate that my [...]
Posted in del.icio.us on May 27th, 2008
The Jaded Hippy: Third Feminist Carnival of Sexual Freedom and Autonomy
(tags: carnival feminism LGBT military misogyny orientations patriarchy race sex sexwork)
Judy’s Story – Pt 5
“Mmm, Cindy… this looks good enough to eat,”, I said and Judy breathed in sharply. I leaned over and lightly brushed my nose and lips through her pubic hair. Judy practically [...]
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 [...]
