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A few weeks ago, I was in the company of a fetish model who kept vociferously stating that she does not do nudity. She wasn’t responding to anyone asking her to spread her legs, she was just stating it for the record in a way that made it clear that she has a lot of […]

I finally got my hands on the clip of me on CNN Prime News from March 13th. In case you don’t recall, I got a call to do a segment on CNN Prime News. This was the day after “Eliot Spitzer’s call girl” - quotes because, what, he owns her? - got outed. The interview […]

Since I was busy um, you know, talking, I didn’t live blog my talk. It went really well and no one was mean to me!
My talk notes, with links to articles I talked about are here.
And here’s Amber’s live blog of the talk:

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I’m what you might call a voracious consumer of sex media, and though I share my thoughts on some of the stuff I’ve been gobbling up in my video reviews on Live Girl Review, I do most of my linking, bookmarking, and staking out of internet awesomeness away from my official blogs. Which might be […]

Since the end of last week I’ve been trying to take a step back from the media craziness. The Spitzer scandal and responding to the media around it was essentially all I did last week. As you might recall, I don’t work for any one organization, which meant that I could act fast on media […]

In between taking phone calls and doing CNN and all that stuff yesterday, I also had a bigger thing I was planning for: the inaugural fund raising event for Sex Work Awareness, a new non-profit started by some of the $pread staffers (myself included).
The event was hosted at Arena Studios in SoHo, and was well-attended […]

Though it’s pretty much unrelenting in the stream of requests and things I’ve been doing, this media stuff is actually getting better, partly because I’m getting better at it, partly because I’m getting more respect. This evening I was on CNN Headline News - seriously! - talking about the outed escort. It was… good. The […]

This morning I got a weird call from WBAI, a really terrific radio station in downtown Manhattan. They said they’d gotten a tip in a sketchy sounding message from a man this morning, saying that sex workers were preparing to release a list of 100 politicians in the United States who have hired sex workers. […]

A sampling from my inbox and phone queries today:
From Fox News:
“I am trying to find someone to explain how credit card payments work with escort services. Specifically, how do you make sure the name of the escort service does not show up on a credit card bill. If anyone can explain that I would be […]

[This is a press release put together by a group of sex workers and sex worker advocates, I’m not the sole author]
I’m available for interviews on this subject. Email dacia[at]wakingvixen[dot]com or via phone 718.554.1714
Contacts
Shakti Ziller, Sex Workers Action New York (SWANK), swank@riseup.net 877-776-2004 x 2
Audacia Ray, 718.554.1714
Sarah Bleviss, Sex Workers Outreach Project NYC (SWOP-NYC), swop.nyc@gmail.com
Prostitutes […]