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Sex in the morning
March 28, 2005
I got up this morning at the very unsex workerly hour of 7.30. Well, my alarm went off at 7.30, but I laid in bed until 8.30, fading in and out of consciousness. Then my day of sex began - not the naked kind of sex, the talking about sex. I trudged grumbling and battling the elements with my umbrella down Wall Street to the WBAI studio. In the six years I’ve lived in New York, I’ve been in the financial district maybe a handful of times - usually for a protest of some sort. It’s a weird area of the city that I prefer to leave to the suits.
The WBAI interview was really brief, but we got in some good plugs for $pread Magazine. The main topic of conversation grew out of the question: why a magazine instead of a website? It’s a good question indeed. As the great Egon Spengler once said - “print is dead” (and hell, that was 1984). Our answer was basically that not everyone has access to the internet and that because sex workers are largely silenced and invisible, having something tangible is significant. There is definitely something thrilling about cutting open boxes of magazines (or feeling what 40 boxes in my car are doing to my shocks), flipping through magazines, and handing them to people and saying - “sex workers made this.”
But although I love the physicality - I wonder about the long term prospects of magazines, because of the costs of production and distribution. But really, this is a question that threatens all indie media, not just magazines. What about indie porn - we’re starting to see a jump from the internet to dvds, but shit, the costs are stupifying, unless you work for someone else. And where’s the indie in that? On the internet, a project can have slick and sexy design for a realitively low cost, but to make a pretty slick magazine or dvd cover, you have to have a pretty nice chunk of cash money to throw at the project. But then, I also struggle with the form vs content thing - I know you have to make sexy product to sell anything in this country, but shit, putting energies into solid content is way more gratifying.
After the interview, I dropped in on a photographer friend of mine to pick up a cd of images and he gave me a tour of his hard drive. We got into a conversation about nipples, arguing the aesthetics of shape, size and color of nipples as they relate to the aerola and the breast at large. Supplemented with a variety of visual examples, of course. I was also informed by my friend that though he could picture waking up naked with me, he couldn’t picture us getting married in Vegas - I guess I’m just not the marrying kind. Can’t say I’m complaining.
This afternoon and evening I’ll be pushing through writing a paper on trains and early silent cinema. Good times.
Sometimes, I love my life. I know it sounds like I’m bragging - but shit, it’s just good to remind myself that, bullshit aside, on the day-to-day basis I have it pretty good. I think it’s time to eat some chocolate cake, have a wank and get crackin on that paper.
Posted by Dacia at March 28, 2005 02:43 PM
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