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Antonia Crane
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Nothing But Trouble: Hookers & Memoir
The Rumpus Interview with Bruce BendersonThe Romanian is an enthralling memoir about Benderson’s consuming affair with a male hustler he encountered in Budapest, while doing research. I wondered about that timeless troll, desire, and how it has the power to dunk one’s entire world into…
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RECESSION SEX WORKERS #10: Last Exit to Hollywood, The Passing Fancy of Allenina Wong
When you have a gender, you enjoy certain privileges. You don’t get stared at, laughed at, egged or beat up on the street because of how you appear.
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RECESSION SEX WORKERS #9: The Refined Tyranny of Mistress Marzanna Katorga
“The early messages in my family were that women are the source of power. They made the household decisions, held the purse strings, and if the woman of the house was not happy, no one was happy.”
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RECESSION SEX WORKERS #7: How To Be a Girl: Courtney Trouble’s Subversive Smut
Courtney Trouble’s no pedestrian pornographer. She’s a pale, femme, riot girl with squiggly tattoos and rocker bangs.
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RECESSION SEX WORKERS #6: The Orgasmic Frequency of Elle Rocket
When I met Elle in San Francisco, we were sleeping with the same tattooed Puerto Rican stripper in AA. Ten years later, she contacted me on Facebook and asked if I’d like to work with her. “Work” would mean erotic…
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RECESSION SEX WORKERS #5: The Rise and Fall of JT
If I’ve learned anything from interviewing JT, it’s that “no one ends up in the adult industry by accident” and “when you fall, you have to land somewhere.”
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Recession Sex Workers #4: There’s No Place Like Porn: The Unstoppable MILF Zoey Holloway
Zoey Holloway’s background forced her to reckon with what it is to be “normal,” and she found home in the sex industry.
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Magic Gardens: The Rumpus Interview With Viva Las Vegas
Viva Las Vegas’ saucy new memoir Magic Gardens is about stripping in Portland, Oregon during the 90’s when the “stripping as performance art” trend was taking hold and pro-porn feminism was a fledgling idea.
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Recession Sex Workers #3: The Passion of Apollo
The third in our series of interviews focusing on sex work during the recession.
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Recession Sex Workers #2: Mandy Morbid’s Sex and Death Funhouse
I met Mandy Morbid while working at Cheetahs in Hollywood, a bikini bar that attracts broke slackers with a soft spot for suicide girls and strippers who don’t think they’re strippers.
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Recession Strippers #1: The Laura Beth Experience
Dancers always want to quit but rarely do. The cliché is that sex workers are stuck. But, it’s more complex than that. Dancers quit for years but always come back because leaving the sex industry is difficult.