January 2011
16 posts
Pro- and anti-sex work billboards
Have you seen either of these? The first is from Arlington (story here), where Cowboys Stadium is located.
The Arlington billboard is part of a larger state of pre-Super Bowl hooker hysteria that the DFW area is in. One ridiculous article I saw claimed that fifty thousand prostitutes would descend on the city before the game. I think it’s pretty horrible to put men’s photos up on a...
Waterloo Sunset is not just my favorite Kinks song, it’s my favorite song. Evidence of how many great Kinks songs there are: even though I immediately thought of five that I’d have put in my top 10-13, this list still kills. and most importantly we agree on #1.
suicidewatch:
My Top 13 Favorite Kinks songs.
Waterloo Sunset
Till The End Of The Day
Lola
Dead End Street
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A review of my ass via a photographer to an avatar...
This made me laugh with glee.
This isn’t an airbrushed Cosmo ass, posture or perspective. It’s arousing and real, made beautiful for the eye while remaining exactly what it is. Leaning against the bar, the bartenders and I talked through the image over a bourbon. We agreed there was a process of reactions, a vacillation. Our initial impression was, unanimously, with eyebrows ...
Th’ Faith Healers,...
Portland's short-lived reputation as a sex...
Hysterical reporting about sex trafficking and underage prostitution is damaging to both the population it purportedly serves and to consensual sex workers. When reporters suggest that a great percentage of the women working in the sex industry are there unwillingly, the resulting law enforcement response sweeps up far more women who are there on there own and actually rescues far fewer...
Oh dear lord. Now I can add this to...
Recession strippers
Another longtime dancer was talking with me about the decline we’ve seen in income over the past year, and how new dancers have a different conception of good money. I said, “Yeah, I closed out my 2010 records last week and it made me depressed and grateful.”
“It could be worse, I know!” she said.
“Yeah, we could have been laid off.”
“Fuck, we...
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