• Friday, December 18, 2009 - 1:09pm By Monica Shores
    In October of 2008, someone calling herself Lux started a blog about her work as a stripper. She detailed episodes of using drugs, encountering her ex-boyfriend at her club, and accepting a bad check after having sex with a client in his home. By...
  • Friday, November 20, 2009 - 2:35pm By Monica Shores
    Blogger Belle De Jour's coming-out press parade has been an ugly glimpse into how the public responds to well-educated sex workers who act with apparent awareness and agency. When Brooke Magnanti, a young neurotoxicologist working at a university,...
  • Sunday, November 15, 2009 - 2:20pm By Matthew Lawrence
    One of the blogosphere's most famous mysteries was solved this morning, when Belle de Jour's identity was revealed in London's Sunday Times.  Her popular Diary of a London Call Girl was named the Blog of the Year by the Guardian in 2003, and...