As the Beatles said in a song that isn’t the one this column is named for, “I get by with a little help from my friends”. And that’s what this is; a request for a little help from you, my readers and friends. Of course, the most helpful help is usually monetary, but I’m aware that many of you may be suffering from giving fatigue lately; therefore only the FIRST of these requests is for monetary help. The other two won’t cost you a cent, though the second one will cost you some time; the third only requires a change in the way you do things.
First, as is not unusual with GoFundMe projects, mine is stalled at just over the halfway mark. So if you haven’t contributed yet, please do so by clicking here! And if you already have, please consider doing so again, or subscribing to my blog by clicking one of the handy buttons in the margin. So far, your contributions have enabled the burning of DVDs (which should be delivered to us this week), getting The War on Whores onto Amazon (where you can watch it for FREE if you’re a Prime member), and doing several sponsored screenings for groups which couldn’t otherwise afford it. Please keep us going so we can get on iTunes and keep doing those sponsored screenings (next ones are coming in Florida in only two weeks)! And even though I’m not allowed to advertise gifts directly on GoFundMe, there are indeed gifts and you can see them here.
Second: speaking of Amazon, their algorithms dig up things a lot better if they have more reviews; would you please consider reviewing The War on Whores, The Forms of Things Unknown and/or Ladies of the Night for me? More reviews could result in more sales, and more sales not only means more money, but more exposure. Since all the items are linked by my name, increased attention to the books could also mean increased attention to the film, which will get the message out that much more. And since the film is being considered “adult” by search engines, that’s extra-important in these days of shadowbans, hidden content and de-weighted search results intended to bury anything sex-industry-related where it can’t disturb the sleep of prudes and prohibitionists.
And that brings us to number 3. Due to Twitter shadowbanning sex workers (removing us from search results, etc) my follower count has been stalled for a very long time. So what I need is for those of you who follow me there to consider replacing some or most of your “likes” with retweets. “Likes” are nice, but they don’t put my tweets in front of more eyeballs, and since I’m fortunate in having a very large fraction of my followers come from outside the demimonde, retweets allow my tweets to be seen by people who might not otherwise have seen them. More viewers = more readers = more exposure for my writing, speaking, etc, including The War on Whores. And because of that war, we whores need all the support we can get.
