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About

March 04, 2005

I am a New Yorker, writer, sex worker rights advocate, alternative model, safer sex educator and intrepid pervert. I’m an Executive Editor of $pread, a magazine exploring the sex industry from a workers’ perspective, winner of the 2005 Utne Independent Press Award for Best New Title. I recently directed my first adult feature, The Bi Apple, which will be released by Adam & Eve Pictures in early 2007.

I was named #3 on Fleshbot’s Top Ten Hotties of 2005, nominated for Gridskipper’s Best Urban Sex Blog in 2005 and in 2004 my blog came in 6th in the Best of Blogs’ Best Sex Blog category. My writing, which ranges from personal essays and erotica to reviews and news pieces has appeared in Russ Kick’s anthology Everything You Know About Sex is Wrong, $pread magazine, the Sex Herald, First-timers: True Stories of Lesbian Awakening and Sexiest Soles: Erotic Stories About Feet and Shoes. I’ve been featured in the Village Voice and Time Out New York and have been interviewed on WBAI’s feminist radio show “The Joy of Resistance,” Sirius’ “The Derek and Romaine Show” and CIUT 89.5 FM’s sex worker radio show “The Shady Lady.” I have spoken about sex work, porn, and safer sex at New York University, Rutger’s University, the City University of New York and Sexy Spirits to name a few.

I dipped my toes into the vast world of sexuality five years ago when I started working as a researcher at the then-nascent Museum of Sex, where I got paid to sift through collections of dirty pictures in New York City’s museums and public libraries, visit eclectic and enthusiastic sexual ephemera collectors and started cataloging one of the world’s largest porn collections. After MoSex, I shed the academic veneer of sexuality research and dove headlong into doing public relations, model and production management for the Manhattan-based porn company RedLight TV and became a volunteer community educator for the Gay Men’s Health Crisis, the oldest AIDS service organization in the United States. I also began to support myself by doing sex work.

I have an active erotic modeling career and have appeared on alt porn sites BellaVendetta.com, OnlyPaperDolls.com NoFauxxx.com and CityKittie.com and made my hardcore debut in Profane Pirate’s Psychocandy 4. I continue to expand my modeling repertoire and find myself increasingly interested in the subtly of erotic nudes and edgy fine art photography.

As a writer, I’m interested in exposing and exploring the nitty gritty of human sexuality, including my own, through personal essays as well as more journalistic endeavors. As a sex worker rights activist I work to raise awareness of the issues that affect sex workers, encourage community and conversation among sex workers and act as something of an ambassador to people who find sex work scary and other worldly. As a sex positive feminist and safer sex educator, I strive to aid people in exploring and understanding sexuality as a site for personal development and actualization.

Posted by Dacia at March 4, 2005 06:51 PM