Tag: morality
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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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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 …