Only in Washington, D.C. can a former city councilman become a gay strip club impresario. Meet Jim Graham, the…
I expected to be criticized for my work — I'm a porn performer — from my classmates at Duke. But from my fellow…
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It’s tough to promote safe sex while also instructing police to confiscate individuals' condoms as evidence that…
Renting your apartment out on Airbnb? Don’t worry so much about your stuff being stolen; instead, maybe freak out…
New research out today claims to offer a window into the massive, murky world of the underground commercial sex…
Brooke Magnanti, the research scientist/former sex worker behind Belle de Jour, is being sued for defamation by an…
Here's one way sex workers can hold clients and cops accountable: videotape them. Raven Nicole Masterson, a…
Man, the Supreme Court wants to go on summer vacay so bad! All it wants to do is head to the cabin upstate, chill at…
Sex workers, anti-trafficking groups, the New York Civil Liberties Union, public health advocates, and LGBTQ…
Giving new meaning to the Happy Meal (HAR), a 58-year-old New Mexico man was arrested last week after he paid a sex…
Some of the Bay Area's sex workers are also self-described geeks and marketing whizzes who use Game of Thrones…
Writer and sex worker Charlotte Shane recently panned cultural historian Betsy Prioleau's Swoon, which promises to…
It's hard to write about Chris Arnade's "Faces of Addiction" photo series because I keep getting distracted and…
Many people who think sex workers are exploited — perhaps even most of them — have positive intentions. But, as…
Gary Ridgway, the Green River Killer, confessed to the murder of between 48 and 71 prostitutes in the 80s and 90s:…
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The platonic ideal of internet vigilante justice (see: Anonymous holding Stuebenville accountable for the nearly…
India, which has been a surprising success story in AIDS prevention throughout the aughts, might be on the verge of…
The East Bay Express's Ellen Cushing's fascinating piece on the more "privileged" sex workers who are fighting to…
Greg pays me to come over to his apartment, usually with a friend, to burn his feet with cigarettes while he…
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After teaching an all-day open house memoir-writing workshop last Sunday, one of my students came up to me and…
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