Chris Hall, Thursday, September 30, 2010 - 4:48pm
For sex workers, getting their stories out to the public in an honest and respectful manner is always a huge problem. In any given news story as presented in the mainstream media, there are only a...
Kitty Stryker, Tuesday, September 14, 2010 - 2:15pm
During rush hour last Thursday night, an explosion erupted, and fire tore through a 10-acre section of the Glenview neighborhood of San Bruno. My boyfriend, grandmother and I watched, horrified, as...
Kitty Stryker, Wednesday, September 8, 2010 - 1:53pm
"I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a door mat or a prostitute...
Kitty Stryker, Thursday, August 26, 2010 - 12:15pm
I got my Hookers For Jesus shirt today, along with a letter from the woman who left her life as a sex worker and gave her all to Jesus. Now, I can respect leaving the corporate working world and...
Kitty Stryker, Wednesday, August 25, 2010 - 2:47pm
"Kitty Stryker" is my work name, my nom-de-plume, but it's also the name I go by in the day-to-day- most people call me by it, and while it's not my legal name, it feels like the name I've settled...
Kitty Stryker, Tuesday, August 10, 2010 - 12:00am
“So what do you do?” is a question I get asked a lot at the pub in London. Generally I size the person up and decide how far up the exposure scale I want to go (if you’re curious, from least to...
Kitty Stryker, Wednesday, August 4, 2010 - 3:37pm
Considering how stigmatized sex workers are, and how harshly the culture at large treats prostitutes, I've found that the stigma against the clients of sex workers is far worse- being outed as a...
Monk, Wednesday, June 16, 2010 - 12:29pm
Veronica Monet, a certified sexologist, sex educator and sex worker rights activist, was the keynote speaker at the recent Sex 2.0 conference in Seattle. Monet’s speech broadly covers the history...
Eve Minax, Tuesday, February 2, 2010 - 6:10pm
Mistress Eve Minax recently welcomed friend and colleague Miss Jaeleen to her parlor to discuss a specific style of kinky massage called Bondassage, which she created. Miss Jaeleen shares her...
Monica Shores, Friday, December 18, 2009 - 1:09pm
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...
L. Z. Hansen, Thursday, December 3, 2009 - 12:50pm
“Lizzy, your eight o'clock is here. Room three. Hurry,” Ingrid yelled from the office.
I'd been lounging in the living room with the other women. I stubbed my cigarette out...
Monica Shores, Friday, November 20, 2009 - 2:35pm
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...
