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Sex Workers

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“A Sex Work Testament from Someone Outside the Movement”

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • July 18, 2013
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…
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RECESSION SEX WORKERS #13: Bella Blue’s School of Three: Burlesque, Boys and Polyamorous Love

  • Antonia Crane
  • September 9, 2011
Mardi Gras was uncharacteristically dismal in 2010. I met a group of curvaceous, saucy strippers at 10 a.m. on Bourbon Street, where the air was thick with pizza and Red…
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Dear Sex Worker Hater

  • Maggie Mayhem
  • April 4, 2011
Hello Sex Worker Hater, So, we meet again. You’re a shape shifter and I feel like I see you everywhere I go. I’ve spotted you on police forms for recovered bodies which…
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Dom-Mom Love

  • Jill Haberkern
  • March 18, 2011
We mentioned the new site Tits and Sass earlier today, and already they are posting great articles, like this conversation between Bettie, a dominatrix, and her mother, a preacher. Bettie’s…
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Notable New York, This Week 11/29 – 12/5

  • Caitlin Colford
  • November 29, 2010
This week in New York Colm Tólbín brings Henry James to us, Furnace Press Decomposes, Jonathan Franzen returns home, Sex workers share their family tales, Myla Goldberg gets crafty, Classic…
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Politics Sunday

  • Seth Fischer
  • May 16, 2010
“All of the prostitutes are against the reopening of the brothels.” The French sex workers’ union takes a surprising stance. (Well, maybe not that surprising if you think about it.) (via…
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Politics Sunday

  • Seth Fischer
  • January 17, 2010
Gangland tours of LA, with one helluva waiver. In New Orleans, what happens when sex workers are prosecuted as sex offenders. A brilliantly written profile of a sniper. “(M)y grandmother’s…
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Recession Strippers #1: The Laura Beth Experience

  • Antonia Crane
  • July 3, 2009
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…
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