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LATEST ARTICLES ( 2979 )

• In the News (#574)

  

  Raising the minimum age perpetuates the notion that sex workers are naive individuals with little to no agency or understanding of their own situation. Read more

  Posted on 26 September 2015 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Back Issue: September 2012

  

  A successful life is judged by its character rather than by the number of years it endures. – “Enough is Enough”Though my blog didn’t change much in September o... Read more

  Posted on 25 September 2015 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• The Spirit is Willing

  

  I’m thinking of hiring an escort to surprise my husband; I know he’d love it, but I’m not sure how I would react to it. Any advice? Read more

  Posted on 24 September 2015 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Mabon 2015

  

  The apparent path of the sun crossed the celestial equator at 8:20 UTC today, which is why you’re seeing this early; whenever possible, I like synchronizing... Read more

  Posted on 23 September 2015 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Diary #273

  

  As most of you probably know, Savannah Sly flew into Boise last Tuesday, and I drove over from Pocatello (where Jae was hospitalized for the past month) to... Read more

  Posted on 22 September 2015 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Fictional Interlude: Little Girl Found

  

  The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage. – Jack LondonLexi opened her eyes and gazed about at the wreckage.  Scratch that; she opened her right... Read more

  Posted on 21 September 2015 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Links #272

  We live in an age where you can’t take things like that to school. – Commissar Larry BoydThanks to Savannah Sly’s offering to fill in for me tonight at the... Read more

  Posted on 20 September 2015 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• In the News (#573)

  

  [As a sex worker] you either have so much agency that you can never be raped or you’re raped, in the abstract, every night. – Melissa PetroWell, At Least They’r... Read more

  Posted on 19 September 2015 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• It Had To Happen

  

  I knew this day would come; I just didn’t expect it to come anything like this.  There is just no way I can get a column out on time today. Read more

  Posted on 18 September 2015 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Off Limits

  

  I think married men should be off limits for prostitutes. Why don’t you care about other women?How do you propose whores determine a man’s marital status, deman... Read more

  Posted on 17 September 2015 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• In the News (#572)

  

  Crowding what I do into the larger umbrella of “sex work,” without its own name, makes it seem as if I’m supposed to experience what I do as shameful. –... Read more

  Posted on 16 September 2015 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Diary #272

  

  There is very little I find more annoying than going to all the trouble to make a complex plan…only to have it cancelled at the last minute due to some... Read more

  Posted on 15 September 2015 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Guest Column: A Client

  

  One of my readers is a long-time client of whores who’s very incensed by the prohibitionists’ demonization of men like him; he therefore wanted to write about... Read more

  Posted on 14 September 2015 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Links #271

  I can’t breathe. – Troy GoodeI thought this sampler of “Dutch angle” scenes, called to my attention by Matt Welch, was quite interesting. Read more

  Posted on 13 September 2015 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• In the News (#571)

  

  I have never met anybody who says there will be a day when no one is selling sexual services for money. You will never stop it. – Jean UrquhartThink of the... Read more

  Posted on 12 September 2015 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Thargelia

  

  …made her onslaughts upon the most influential men [of her time]. – PlutarchIn these harlotographies, I try to alternate between modern ones (who died in the... Read more

  Posted on 11 September 2015 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Once a Client

  

  Though you and your husband are divorced now, your marriage was successful for a long time. How did you manage to transition from thinking of him as a client... Read more

  Posted on 10 September 2015 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• In the News (#570)

  

  It’s basically a vice-squad operation writ large over the entire nation and imbued with overstated moral urgency. – Elizabeth Nolan BrownR.I.P. Read more

  Posted on 09 September 2015 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Diary #271

  

  The second stage of Jae’s recovery is almost over. In the first stage, she was unconscious under heavy sedation in the ICU, then last Tuesday her breathing... Read more

  Posted on 08 September 2015 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Time Warp

  

  When you have sex with someone, you give them a part of your soul. – quoted un-ironically by TimeAfter the events of the last several weeks, a recent article... Read more

  Posted on 07 September 2015 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY