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February 20, 2006

Audacia Ray’s Comprehensive Safer Sex/Safer Sex for Sluts Workshops

NotForTourists.com
February 16, 2006

Whether you’re single or taken, sex educator Audacia Ray can teach you a thing or two. With her extensive background in all matters sexual (she is a sex worker rights advocate, alternative model, and the executive editor of $pread), she has developed two workshops for those delving in to the world of sexual exploration. Before masterminding a night of romance, flirtation, and mindblowing sex, consider attending either the Comprehensive Safer Sex or the Safer Sex for Sluts workshop. Taking into account monogamy, open relationships, and other alternative sexual practices, Ray teaches the down and dirty facts surrounding all sexually transmitted infections, and then leads disucssions of safer sex strategies, stressing the fact that everyone has a different comfort level when it comes to the risks they are willing to take in the name of pleasure. These workshops are reminiscent of our old high school sex ed classes, but who was paying attention back then anyway? Attend this much-needed refresher course and leave with a goody bag of condoms and a determination to have safer sex. Lots of it.
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The Cogs of Porn
Photographs by Brad Nelson
Time Out New York
October 6-12, 2005

They work hard for the money: writing, shooting, performing and promoting. Meet the folks who help keep New York’s smut factory in business.

Waking Vixen
Review by Sara at Jane’s Guide
May 30, 2005

Audacia Ray is no Sleeping Beauty. That�s her tag line, and it is perfect. This poly-slut-sex-activist-model-writer makes her home in Brooklyn, NY. Her writing is fresh, real, and very, very hot. She seems to be as at home describing anal masturbation, female ejaculation, her new boyfriend�s first foray into a sex party, or her wardrobe dilemmas. For extras, there are fabulous photos of our heroine scattered throughout the blog, and links to websites that are actually meaningful to her. This blog is definitely a keeper � Audacia is that rare mix of bright, sexy and interesting that definitely makes me damp! Click here to check out Jane’s Guide

Meet Audacia Ray
Fleshbot
May 18, 2005

If there�s such a thing as an alt porn renaissance woman, it�s the proudly silicone-free Audacia Ray: not only does she share her thoughts on a variety of sex topics (including genital piercing, female ejaculation, and wrestling around in fake blood for charity) on her well-written and entertaining blog, she also puts her money where her, er, mouth is via an active nude modeling career and her upcoming hardcore debut in the next volume of Profane Pirate�s �Psychocandy� series. (All that, and she wears glasses too. We think we�re in love.) Click here to read the Fleshbot original

Sex Worker Blogs, Sacred Whores, and $pread
by William Dean in Clean Sheets
April 6, 2005

Before the World Wide Web, few sex workers had what might be called a “public voice.” The most usual historical form was the tell-all autobiography, such as A House is Not a Home, by Polly Adler, published in 1953, and Xaviera Hollander’s The Happy Hooker, in 1972. More recently, we have seen Michelle Tea’s illustrated and autobiographical book, Rent Girl, Nelly Arcan’s novel Whore, and Tracy Quan’s Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl: A Novel. These books garnered both public acclaim and pseudo-scandalized reactions from media book panderers.

For more cogent and gritty information, these days, however, interested readers turn to those formidable WWW inventions, the blog and the e-zine. Why are sex workers becoming web-columnists, and what are they achieving? Click here to read the rest of the article

Whore Pride: Young, Empowered Sex Workers Want Respect Along With Your Dollars
by Rachel Kramer Bussel / Village Voice column “Lusty Lady”
January 13th, 2005

When I tell a new acquaintance about my experience masturbating for HBO’s Real Sex, he asks, “So, you jerked off on TV and got paid for it�doesn’t that make you a prostitute?” No, but there are plenty of happy whores working the city. Click here to read the rest of the article

Posted by Dacia at February 20, 2006 06:55 PM