Mixtapes for Hookers


On Monday It’s Tonio…
August 6, 2011, 4:21 pm
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I first encountered the melody to “Never On Sunday,” without realizing it, as the base for late-nineties cheesefest “No Tengo Dinero,” a tinny sort of mariachi-inspired Shaggy-lite number that hit pop radio around my junior year of high school.  Years later, I’d encounter the song again as the lead track on Petula Clark’s truly fabulous 1965 album The World’s Greatest International Hits!  In the song, Clark tells a man how he can kiss her on any day of the week except Sunday, because by that point of the week she’s worn out from all the kissing.

I didn’t realize until much, much later that the song (which was originally performed in Greek with completely different lyrics) was the theme to Never On Sunday, an Oscar-nominated film from 1960 that’s part light-hearted Mediterranean comedy and part social drama about a prostitutes’ rebellion in Greece’s largest port city.

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Sunday News

Look at me, all up and eating a healthy breakfast and starting my day before 9am on a Sunday.  Here’s some news and stuff:

New York approved gay marriage!  Although hopefully you knew that already.  I had an interesting discussion last week with a gay marriage advocate here in Rhode Island, one who has no desire to actually get married herself.  This really isn’t at all about marriage as a heteronormative institution or anything like that; it’s about the state not telling certain people that they can do certain things that other people are forbidden to do.  Rich Juzwiak, who was out in New York that night, had maybe the most thoughtful take on the New York issue I’ve seen this week.

But while all of that was happening, the NY Eagle was being randomly raided by the fire department?

Google pulled an ad from some Dublin-based sex workers concerned about their rights being possibly affected by a proposed change in prostitution law.  (Ireland, I hadn’t realized, is currently like Canada, where the sale of sex itself is legal but most other things affiliated with prostitution are not.)

The 2012 Rentboy calendar is now available for pre-order on Amazon, which is always sort of funny to me.  Sad that I wasn’t asked to participate!  (Not really.)

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We’re Here To Help
May 30, 2011, 2:19 pm
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At long last, I can finally announce this reading I’m organizing in Providence on June 9th. I am very, very excited to have put this together. These are some of my favorite people (ahem ahem ahem ahem), largely because they are all smart and funny and interesting, and so I expect this event to be a big heap of fun.

The reading is part of Q30, which is this month-long queer art happening that a guy named Michael Kurt organized. He’s taken over a space downtown for the month and there’s readings and talks and music and films and a whole bunch of other stuff. It’s good that it’s happening in June because with the colleges out there’s often a shortage of interesting events going on.

Full performer bios after the jump:

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Reminder: Can We Please Just Talk About Sex Now, Please?
April 25, 2011, 11:25 am
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Just a quick little reminder that you’ve only got until Saturday to apply for the night of sexy reading that I’m hosting in Providence on June 9th.  If you’re interested, send me an e-mail with your name, a very brief bio, and a sample of something you’re proud of.  More details are here.



Sex Worker Cabaret
March 27, 2011, 7:48 pm
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Last year I took part in the inaugural Sex Worker Cabaret, the event to take place before the doors closed at the Slipper Room on the Lower East Side.  The event was a lot of fun, and featured such pretty and nice people as Lorelei Lee, Jodi Sh Doff, Essence Revealed, Inbred Hybrid Collective* and Adam The Terrible.  Everyone was very glamorous and glittery and fabulous and I read a story un-glamorous story about my godparents’ yard sale.

This June, all the magic is happening again.  This time it’s at Public Assembly in Brooklyn, and right now there’s an open call for performers (and also video artists!)  There’s not a ton of time, though; the deadline is April 7.

Sarah Jenny’s official press release after the jump:

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Hear Me Now
March 3, 2011, 6:31 pm
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The podcast featuring my story from last month’s Red Umbrella Diaries is now online.  If you’d like to hear about my getting a blowjob from a man I call Mr. Chompers, click away.



Don’t You Remember That You Once Said That You Liked Happy Ending?
February 2, 2011, 11:06 pm
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New York: I am going to be in you in about twelve hours.  Tomorrow (Thursday) evening I’ll be reading at Red Umbrella Diaries, Audacia Ray’s monthly reading series at Happy Ending.  My story is kind of dirty and kind of gross and kind of still not done yet.  (But I have seven hours before my bus leaves?)  Doors are at 7, the reading’s at 8, and it’s over by 10, in time for a big dance party something something.  (It’s called Downtown Top Ranking.  I may have to stick around?)

Then!  Friday night I’m heading to the Sex Work Awareness fundraiser at Madame X, which is a place with which I am not familiar at all.  But this is from the Facebook invite:

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Bet She’s Not Your Girlfriend

Way back in early 2009, it seemed like every single person on the internet was talking about The Girlfriend Experience, porn star Sasha Grey’s entry into the world of mainstream film.  The movie had a really great poster, and it was made by popular director Steven Soderbergh, but it didn’t get a whole lot of distribution and disappeared rather quickly, earning (according to iMDB) less than a million dollars total.

Yesterday, lazing my way through a combination sick day/snow day, I finally saw the film, which is currently streaming on Netflix.  It’s interesting, for a Hollywood movie about prostitution.  But also it’s pretty frustrating, particularly if you like movies where anything actually happens.

Grey plays Chelsea, a Manhattan call girl whose clients are mainly sad-sack hotshots who spend most of their sessions dispensing unasked for financial advice.  (Invest in gold.  Vote for McCain.  Invest in gold.)  Meanwhile, Chelsea’s also talking to a reporter who wants to profile her, chronicling her day-to-day life (and wardrobe) in a diary, and trying to update her website.  She agrees to meet a man who runs an escort review site when she knows full well that he’s probably full of shit.  She is mostly if not all business.

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Sex Workers Want To Fight Against Trafficking
January 12, 2011, 3:17 pm
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SerpentLibertine just posted a video.  It’s worth watching, mainly because it’s all true.

[via Melissa]



Sunday News

Students think that sex work is pretty okay

Homeland Security shut down over seventy torrent sites over the weekend without any notice, taking advantage of the fact that most tech sites would be on vacation and unlikely to cause a fuss.

I stopped writing for Carnal Nation over the summer and they shut down last month.  But it looks like they’re coming back?

Fuck Yeah, Murder She Wrote.

I think I like this new Duffy song, although doesn’t it seem like “Mercy” was fifty years ago at this point?

Twenty years on, I’m thinking about maybe finally buying Pretty Hate Machine.

The Queer Suicide Teach-In last month at Brown/RISD is now online.

Jezebel wonders what you would do if Katy Perry crapped out a pizza for you.

[image: Sugar and Lust typed her dad's Facebook page on an electric typewriter]




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