Losing the Lusty
The women who danced at the Lusty Lady Theatre were pierced and collared and well-read. When they weren’t breathing fire or taking writing classes, they stripped.
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“A Sex Work Testament from Someone Outside the Movement”
Emotions tend to run high around controversial confessional writer Marie Calloway’s blunt descriptions of sex, but few have discussed her exploration of sex work. Enter sex-worker blog Tits & Sass, where…
Johns, Marks, Tricks, and Chickenhawks: The Rumpus Interview with Veronica Monet
Despite my college diploma and seven years in corporate jobs, I had a lot to learn about being a successful escort.
Johns, Marks, Tricks, and Chickenhawks: The Rumpus Interview with Chester Brown
Chester Brown is an award-winning Toronto cartoonist who wrote the graphic memoir Paying For It
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 of sex.
Johns, Marks, Tricks and Chickenhawks: The Rumpus Interview with Annie M. Sprinkle
Being a whore was great preparation for being an artist.
Captain Save-A-Ho
I’d been down that road a million times before and had learned the hard way that unless you had some kind of special line just for them, it never paid to give a client your phone number.
It Doesn’t Mean Very Much At All
I was tired of endlessly explaining that sex work could be empowering and could be exploitative, but that most things in life could be either of these things as well.
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 .
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.
The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Anne Elizabeth Moore
"The phrase 'global citizen' always gets tossed around with my work, and part of it is that, clearly, talking about being a global citizen is the only way we can talk about participating in globalization without feeling like assholes."