Onya, 23, is trying to divulge the great secrets of her trade. "Most of the time, I'm down on L around 14th–that's the real female stroll," she explains, leaning against her old Chrysler convertible at 6th and K Streets NW. She'd continue with her lesson. But there's Diane.
Diane,25, is hovering in the background, laughing too [...]
My first foray into Sexist Art History took a look at some sexist interpretations of Judith Leyster's 400-year-old The Proposal (pictured). Some historians saw the painting as "a powerful image of temptation and resistance." I see it as "a rapey dude in a mustache and a fur hat who ain't gettin' anywhere." What did you [...]
It's been a banner week for Sexist History! First, we revisited an 1893 New York Times piece which informed us why children are the sexiest swimmers of all. Then, we wrote some Sexist History of our own and discovered why male models may inhabit sexism's final frontier. Now, for some Sexist Art History: Why we [...]
In an Observer piece on Nevada's prostitution downturn, "Sex feels the credit squeeze in Nevada," Andrew Clark presents few new details about the recession's belt-tightening pimps. The "Sex feels the credit squeeze in [jurisdiction]" story has been written before in this recession, and the piece follows the familiar formula:
1. Declare that prostitution is a business [...]
Over on CityDesk, Andrew Beaujon digs into the Craigslist adult ads crackdown, a new development which could mean good business for alt-weeklies. Why not come crawling back to CP, erotic service providers, where photos of genitalia and penetration are no-nos, but “Nipples are kind of on a fence”?
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On Change.org's "End Human Trafficking" blog, Amanda Kloer argues that invoking the phrase "the oldest profession in the world" to refer to prostitution hurts women and girls. "I can't even say it's just lazy, since this goes a step beyond lazy. It's quite simply, bullshit," she writes. "The 'oldest profession' argument esentially says, we [...]
In last month's "Capital Ideas," a publication of the Chicago Booth school of Business, Steven Levitt gives the Freakonomics treatment to Chicago-area prostitution. The conceit of "Trading Tricks," as with Levitt's examination of the inner-city drug trade [PDF], is that prostitution is a market like any other.
Levitt, along with Columbia University professor Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh, [...]
"Sex Workers Are People Too" reveals that sex owners can own cats, oppose the war, talk to their parents, and love bacon. Sex workers: They're just like us!
Holy shit, former D.C. Madam defense lawyer Montgomery Blair Sibley wrote a 600-page self-published book about Deborah Jeane Palfrey's "judicial lynching." She ended up hanging herself, remember. Resonance!
The book is titled "Why Just Her." If this two-minute "book trailer" is any indication, it's going to be amazing.
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Oh man. See what he did there with the [...]
Roxanne, you don't have to leave that light on from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
On Monday, Reuters reported on how the economic downturn is affecting Germany's sex industry. Since tough times have hit the country, where prostitution is legal, its brothels have begun offering bargain-basement deals to keep johns paying for sex. The promotions include [...]
