Category: morality & sex work series
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interview with “the honest courtesan”
What I do is perfectly legal when it’s free. — Maggie McNeill Today I am excited to finally share an interview with the lovely Maggie McNeill aka The Honest Courtesan. McNeill lives in the Seattle area, where she is a whore for hire and outspoken advocate of sex worker rights. She writes a popular blog,…
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i wish i could have met dolores
Dolores’s story, like her identity, an invented persona she assumed for forty years is a mix of fact and fiction that became its own reality.
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coercion & criminality (morality and sex work part four)
That’s right, she was a Rosie the Riveter. So were MANY of these women. We should really revise our collective understanding of Rosie the Riveter and think more about what happened to the actual women those images stand in for: many were in the sex industry both before and after the war. After all the…
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a trojan horse. (morality and sex work part three)
This is the third (and final?) post in my Morality and Sex Work mini-series. The inspiration for the title comes from the famous story in Greek mythology about “cunning Odysseus” (his epithet in the ancient Greek is m’tis, which is also translates to mean “crafty” or “skilled”) hatching a plan to offer a giant wooden horse as an…
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“just like any other business”? (morality and sex work part two)
From time to time, Wallace makes it onto another one of those “cool small towns in America” lists, here, #38. Although this latest list celebrates the “rich history and culture” you find in small towns, it fails to plug the Oasis Bordello Museum, which was mentioned in Travel + Leisure’s 2012 list and Budget Travel’s 2009 list (which also features my current town,…
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masters of sex, serial, and telling real people’s stories (morality and sex work part one)
“You pretended to have an orgasm? Is that a common practice among prostitutes?” “It’s a common practice amongst anyone with a …
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provisional diagnosis: prostitution
“This young woman has had quite a career. […] This patient absolutely vows that she does want to change her life. She says she has never been satisfied with it. She doesn’t feel its right to take the money from some of these poor men who have been her customers. She is ashamed of her…
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quick thoughts on the nature of this beast
So last night I was telling someone I’d just met about the work I did over the summer (I hadn’t seen our mutual friend since I’d gotten back into town and he’d asked about it). I mentioned how I’m interested in looking more at the connection between rhetoric, economics, and how we create our values…