There’s a lot to unlearn around this stuff, and it hides in the language we use. Sex workers don’t ‘sell their bodies’; they sell an experience to lonely guys that need it. Their bodies remain their own. We have this received notion that because a sex worker has sex with their clients, they’re somehow ‘spent’ – unavailable to a boyfriend in some crucial and irredeemable way. It’s not true, any more than it’s true that kindergarten teachers ignore their own children.
— From “How to Date A Sex Worker,” by Anon on Christian Vega’s blog.
Clearly more aimed at partners of full service sex workers, but great advice for someone dating a stripper too. (via amethystripper)
Clearly more aimed at partners of full service sex workers, but great advice for someone dating a stripper too. (via amethystripper)
(via astralparticle)
For the Wild-Hearted Souls: Ashland, OR
I used to wander around at night when I couldn’t sleep after the crash. One night in May, I was heading out to the woods at about midnight. I hadn’t seen any cars, or people, or even deer wandering about, until I passed a house situated on a wooded lot near the trailhead.
A group of people were…
What a story…
Rene Cordero at Kitchens’ Ink Denver CO
Alice. from lip to lip. by Cy n Caro