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Monica Shores is an editor of and regular contributor to $pread magazine. She has also written for Alternet, The Rumpus, Boinkology, and the Feminist Review. Her work is forthcoming in The Best Sex Writing 2010 Anthology.
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MonicaS, December 18th, 2009
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...
MonicaS, November 20th, 2009
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...
MonicaS, September 18th, 2009
This week, military news outlet Stars and Stripes ran a story on U.S. soldiers' current involvement in South Korean prostitution. Many of the "juicy bars" suspected of selling sex are...
MonicaS, August 14th, 2009
In the wake of George Sodini's murderous attack on a women's aerobics class, the notion of sexual frustration has taken on an ominous cast. Sodini's celibacy became the stuff of legend once his...
MonicaS, July 24th, 2009
Picture this seedy scene: an undercover cop pays to enter an establishment advertising itself as a spa. After a massage, the female attendant offers him a hand job. (Or if you're feeling coy, "...
MonicaS, July 10th, 2009
There’s a new ad campaign in the city in which I live: it consists of large signs emblazoned with “AIDS is DC’s Katrina.” Public officials estimate that 5% of DC’s...
MonicaS, June 26th, 2009
Ms. Magazine, the self-proclaimed "media expert on issues relating to women's status, women's rights, and women's points of view," can't seem to stop disrespecting sex workers—a group who, in...
MonicaS, June 12th, 2009
I recently spoke on a conference panel that briefly touched upon the media's handling of sex worker clients. I remarked that it's possible for sex workers to like their clients, although those not in...
MonicaS, May 29th, 2009
One of CNN.com's top stories this week was a small news item on seven individuals accused of operating a New York prostitution agency through Craigslist. For the most part, the article is...
MonicaS, May 8th, 2009
This Tuesday, The Washington Post claimed that Craigslist's Erotic Services listings have been linked to "recent high-profile murders," an error that is egregious yet entirely unsurprising...
MonicaS, April 10th, 2009
Earlier this month, a bill was proposed in the Nevada State Senate that would tack a $5 tax on every sex act performed in a brothel. Opposition was vehement and varied, and the bill didn't make it...
MonicaS, April 1st, 2009
Last month, a Las Vegas newspaper published the names and images of locally-convicted “prostitutes” who were so frequently in trouble with the law that they’d earned spots on the vice squad’s list of...
