Posts Tagged ‘sex work’

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 […]

Many people seem to be interested in having a weekly wrap up of my doings, so I’m going to start doing that on Saturdays… though of course it took me two weeks to actually sit down and do this. I’ve been busy, as you’ll see below! I’m planning to use these posts to pull together […]

Sex Work 101 was inspired by conversations that happened during the Women, Action and the Media 2008 conference held in Cambridge, MA from March 28-30, 2008.
I gave a talk at WAM called Sex Workers and Media Representation (click to see notes for the workshop), and questions during and after the talk made me realize that […]

This weekend, as you may have notice from my obsessive live blogging and tweeting, I was at the Women, Action and the Media conference in Cambridge. As I’ve blogged about previously, I was pretty anxious about diving into the belly of the feminist beast. I identified myself as a feminist long before I was a […]

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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Women, Action and the Media. March 28-30, 2008 in Cambridge, MA. Saturday, March 29th 4:00pm-5:30pm:
Sex Workers and Media Representation
Sex workers and the sex industry are frequent topics in the media, whether as the center of a sex scandal, the subject of an expose, or as the source of discussion around sexuality and morality. This session, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]