Antonia Crane
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Admit You’ve Paid For It: The Savage Honesty of David Henry Sterry
Writer, performer, educator, and activist David Henry Sterry talks about the deep cultural roots of shame associated with the American sex industry, and how freeing it can be to bleed out the truth about our lives as buyers and sellers…
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Lady Cheeky’s Sex Satori
Antonia Crane sits down with sex blogger and erotica writer Lady Cheeky for an interview about her journey to passion, positive body image, and orgasm via True Blood.
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup
If you didn’t catch them already, you’ll want to see the two awesome features we ran this weekend. First, Antonia Crane interviews Jill Soloway, writer, producer, and director, about her film Afternoon Delight, which earned her the US Dramatic Directing Award…
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Holy Orange
Years later, Bombay is still fresh in my mind and in my bones. As a visitor, I was naïve and lost. When I hear bells, I still see statues of Ganesh in a cool, stone temple and smell sandalwood incense.
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Death of A Bad Girl – A Life in Letters: The Rumpus Interview with Daphne Gottlieb
Daphne Gottlieb talks about Dear Dawn, a collection of letters written by Aileen Wuornos to her childhood friend from prison prior to her execution in 2002 .
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Legs That Just Won’t Quit
Rumpus columnist Antonia Crane has a piece up at Salon about the curse/blessing of being a stripper with thick legs. A preview: We’d done this before, dancing for a week in Hawaii and making piles of cash. My goal was to…
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The “Most Beautiful Thing That Ever Fucked”: The Rumpus Interview with Oriana Small
I was dying to interview Oriana Small about her porno memoir Girlvert.
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Halloween is Waiting
Every Halloween, the ghost of my 11 year-old self haunts me. She’s in the candy aisle at Rite Aid gorging on fun-size Twix bars. She’s wrapping candy corn lights around her neck. She’s trying on a vampire costume grinning through…
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Here Comes the Girl
I didn’t analyze production levels or consider marketing strategies. I didn’t say to myself, “Tonight you’re going to get with the jack-off program.” I was a dime-a-dozen girl doing a customer service job, and that job demanded more and more…
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Facing Sex Addiction: A John Comes Clean
“Mike” contacted me for advice about the stripper he was seeing after he’d read my column on The Rumpus. He told me that when his wife was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, he flung himself at sex workers as a way…
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Interview with a John
Remember how MetaFilter linked to Antonia Crane’s “Paying to Play: Interview with a John”? The piece inspired an interesting conversation that’s still going down over there. Check it out? “I think part of what makes this piece successful is that…
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Paying to Play: Interview with a John
To use a tennis analogy, I played all four corners in an attempt to interview clients. I hit up escort friends of mine with long-terms regulars, old clients who were articulate and thoughtful and guys I’d never met who had…