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Radical Vixen, who is also a staff blogger for $pread, has started to do a series of interview posts called “Sex Worker Solidarity.” She interviewed me for the first one, and I’m cross-posting my answers here:
Introduction:
My official third-person whirlwind of a bio is: Audacia Ray is a blogger (WakingVixen.com), video podcast host (LiveGirlReview.com), author (Naked […]

There is no Screen Actors Guild for porno, so you make money by getting in, doing your shoot, getting your cash, and getting out. No matter how well your content does or how many people look at it and buy it, you get your few hundred dollars on the day of the shoot, and that’s […]

“Craigslist has become the high-tech 42nd Street, where much of the solicitation takes place now,” said Richard McGuire, Nassau’s assistant chief of detectives.
No, actually, it hasn’t.
I know people need things they already understand (like mini-skirted hookers yelling “you wanna date?” from under a streetlamp on a trash-strewn street) to be able to understand something new, […]

I’ve been thinking a lot about some of the words that get thrown around when topics around sex work come up. The biggies, of course, are “empowerment” and “degradation.” I am planning on writing a whole other post about the word “empowerment”, so I’m going to gloss over the semantics for now, but the meat […]

I heard rumblings of this yesterday and confirmation today: Assemblyman Felix Ortiz, a democrat from the 51st Assembly District in Brooklyn, has just introduced a bill that would require strippers to become Licensed Exotic Dancers (LEDs) with the state of New York.
He believes that by requiring dancers to get (by which I mean, purchase) permits, […]

Last winter, Dirck and I participated as extras engaged in lewd acts in a foot fetish fantasy piece for the porn company I work for. It was a fun shoot, with hot people and general mayhem all around.
Its taken months to edit this piece, which is our longest to date at about 50 minutes. Last […]