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CULTURE


Programmed Passion
What does it mean for us when companies try to shift and predict our desire through AI?
Nov 30, 2024


State of the SWunion
The political landscape for sex workers going into 2025, what it means for the rest of the world, and what Petit Mort plans to do about it.
Nov 21, 2024


Afro-Latina Rising
Contributing writer miss mirage talks about colorism in sex working spaces and the influence of Cardi B for Afro-Latinas.
Sep 9, 2024


Puta Life: Seeing Latinas, Working Sex
Writer and professor Juana Maria Rodriguez explores the depth and complexity of sex work and the Latina identity.
Aug 27, 2024


A Letter from the Editor: Vol. XII
...this volume in particular is a love note to the lands I had to leave behind and the ties that bind all of us who hail from Latin America
Aug 6, 2024


Spit in my Mouth, Deface My Temple
I studied the images of her body, her robes, and her breasts, but
I knew nothing of her voice.
Jun 26, 2024


Bimbo in Limbo
Humans always have and always will beautify themselves and each other: in the recession, even during the apocalypse.
May 27, 2024


1001
Layla Noxx reinterprets the legend of Scheherazade as a Pakistani stripper raised in Texas.
Mar 17, 2024


A Letter From the Editor: Volume X
The laws of matter dictate that our collective fate is to be reborn ad infinitum.
Jan 12, 2024


Pervert's Parable
This piece of fiction explores sexual shame in Catholicism, salaciously crafting a story of one Pervert and his disciples.
Nov 19, 2023


Exiting
It's almost baffling how unceremonious your last day in the sex industry can be.
Sep 17, 2023


The Client
The escort-client relationship is as unique and nuanced as any marriage.
How do clients become clients? Therein lies David’s story.
Sep 10, 2023


Why Work? The Meaning Behind the Label “Sex Work” and Why It Saves Lives
Pamela Paul claims that “sex work” normalizes sex work in a negative sense. When in fact it is used to combat those issues.
Aug 27, 2023


Barbie: A Mirror of Women's Adoration and Ambivalence
For men, Lilli was an ideal sexual fantasy. For children, Barbie represents the ideal archetype we aspired to become.
Aug 13, 2023


The Feminist Curse
My current goal is to be a C+ Domme-Mom, not amazing, not terrible. Just a middle-of-the-road domestic goddess.
Jul 30, 2023


You Don't Know Me: A Different Kind of Love Story
"You Don’t "You Don’t Know Me" is the latest take on Anna Nicole Smith's life for Netflix, shows her queer romance with a fellow sex worker.
Jun 11, 2023


Girl Island
PHOTOGRAPHS AND WORDS by CHASE KELLY Last week, a fellow stripper invited me to Girl Island. Years ago, I had raunchier, more comedic...
May 2, 2023


A Note From The Editor: Vol. VII
by Penelope Dario Astrophysicists say that as the universe expands it pulls galaxies further apart. It makes me wonder if these...
Mar 31, 2023


Autistic Body
Reese Piper talks about her experience as a stripper and how it taught her about her autism and her connection to her body.
Jan 17, 2023


Sunday Service
Sunday Service explores the parallels between strip clubs and houses of worship.
Jan 3, 2023


The Femme Daddy: Disidentification and Queer Semiotics
Parker Penn explores the idea of queer Daddyhood and what it means to genderbend the idea of Daddy.
Dec 14, 2022


Back to Back: DANIELLE HETTARA of Jacques in Conversation with PENELOPE DARIO
Danielle and Penelope catch up 10 years after Jacques' closure to talk hypocrisy in fashion, photo scandals, and sex work.
Dec 8, 2022


Decolonizing the Conditional
Maura the Dancer explores her connection to her body and her journey to decolonize her movement, her art, and her relationship to herself.
Nov 25, 2022


Cleansing Rituals
Bad house guest? Limpia. Bout of sickness? Limpia. Depressive episode? Limpia.
Oct 11, 2022


Unreliable Narrator
by NIA BOLDE
Oct 11, 2022


Liberation For All: How the BLM Movement Changed the Political Anthropocene of Sex Work
How does that, and the political sphere of race relations, affect sex work and sex workers? Why, exactly, should that matter to you?
Oct 11, 2022


For You I Must
A poem by Skylar Parkar.
Oct 11, 2022

Plagues, Pandemics, & Sex Work
Part of a sex worker’s job is to get up close and personal with clients. But hat happens when it is unsafe to get close to people?
Oct 11, 2022


Motherhood
For someone who occupies a socially disposable role, forming bonds to strengthen, protect, and care for yourself is no longer a luxury
Oct 10, 2022


Black, Undestroyed, Overjoyed
So call me Mrz. Neptune Violet. Because of how I define myself and some related notions, I am miraculous
Oct 10, 2022


Letter from the Editor, Vol. 6
It’s hard to stay present in a time of change. It’s almost as if we’d prefer to just wake up at some point and feel adjusted.
Oct 10, 2022

Letter from the Editor, Vol. 3
Bee hives birth new queens when a portion of the population decides to secede.
Oct 10, 2022


Letter from the Editor, Vol. 4
by PENELOPE DARIO Identities, like ideas, need time to ripen. And like all things on earth, they evolve over time. One could look at a...
Oct 10, 2022


Letter from the Editor, Vol. 6
by PENELOPE DARIO This season we explore healing powers of eroticism and the art of pleasure with clients, providers, and performers...
Oct 10, 2022


Out and Proud
by VANNIALL Recently out HIV+ Black trans sex worker and director Vanniall to be featured in San Francisco Film Festival. Porn...
Oct 10, 2022


The Client Who Changed My Mind
George had contacted me only 24 hours before we had met, but I could tell that he had been waiting for me for over 40 years.
Oct 10, 2022


Letter from the Editor, Vol. 1
by PENELOPE DARIO Since entering the erotic labor industry I have been in awe of the talent here. I felt that so much beautiful art lived...
Oct 10, 2022


ROE V. WADE
by ODETTE This week the Supreme Court will potentially be voting on whether or not to overturn the 1973 legal ruling Roe v. Wade, which...
Oct 10, 2022
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