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Mama’s Fancy Stripper Heels: Working Mothers Dish

  • Jessie Glenn
  • August 27, 2019
[A] person’s labor is not indicative of their parenting.
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The Truth About Lying

  • Antonia Crane
  • January 16, 2017
My gut is a red, fiery drum, a beacon of rosy light. My instinct to run is a bright radioactive pink arrow, a bloody blade. I was correct.
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No Means No

  • Kelly Lynn Thomas
  • June 29, 2016
Porn performers consent to have sex on-camera, but Stoya objects to the idea that she — or any other performer — is just a collection of orifices to which she’s…
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #52: Lauren Wissot in Conversation with Stoya

  • Lauren Wissot
  • April 5, 2016
Edited by queer porn performer and LGBTQ activist Jiz Lee, Coming Out Like a Porn Star is a wide-ranging compilation of answers to questions only sex industry pros seem to…
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James Deen and the Myth of Concrete Consent

  • Lauren Wissot
  • December 8, 2015
In the final months of a nearly six-year BDSM relationship—the most satisfying relationship of my life—a line was crossed. My Master (a stripper and porn star at the time) violated…
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Weekly Geekery

  • Lyz Lenz
  • October 20, 2015
The crazy world of adult content. What poison teaches us about life. Why does hate live online? Medicine and art meet in Stendahl syndrome.
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Recession Sex Workers #4: There’s No Place Like Porn: The Unstoppable MILF Zoey Holloway

  • Antonia Crane
  • October 6, 2009
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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