CONTENTS

Preface: The Sex Worker Rights Movement in the Early 2000s—A Primer

Rachel Aimee, Eliyanna Kaiser, and Audacia Ray

A Short History of $pread

Rachel Aimee, Eliyanna Kaiser, and Audacia Ray

PART I: WORKPLACE

Introduction

Lulu

Indecent Proposal: Fucking the Movement

Eve Ryder

Positions: Is Sex Work a Sacred Practice or Just a Job?

Vero Rocks and Tasha Tasticake

American Brothel: A Photo-Essay

Erin Siegal

Stripping While Brown

Mona Salim

Positions: No Sex in the Champagne Room?

Mary Taylor and Carol Leigh

Menstruation: Porn’s Last Taboo

Trixie Fontaine

Diary of a Peep Show Girl

Sheila McClear, writing as Chelsea O’Neill

PART II: LABOR

Introduction

Radical Vixen

Positions: Can We Justify Working for Pimps?

Anonymous and Eve Ryder

The Sex Workplace: No Day Without an Immigrant

Rachel Aimee

Respite From the Streets: A Place to Retire for Mexico City’s Elderly Prostitutes

Marisa Brigati

Black Tale: Women of Color in the American Porn Industry

Mireille Miller-Young

The City’s Red Lights: Mumbai’s Boomtown of Migrant Laborers

Svati P. Shah

PART III: FAMILY AND RELATIONSHIPS

Introduction

Kevicha Echols

Wives

Jenni Russell

Keeping Her Off the Pole: My Daughter’s Right to Choose

Katherine Frank

Hot Topic: People Who Date Sex Workers

Peter, Natalie, Allen, Bob C., and Fred

I (Heart) Affection, and Other Forms of Emotional Masochism

Hawk Kinkaid

The Coldest Profession

Eliyanna Kaiser

Hell’s Kitchen: Growing Up Loving a Working Mother

Syd V.

PART IV: CLIENTS

Introduction

Sarah Elspeth Patterson

Cher John (Dear John)

Mirha-Soleil Ross

Indecent Proposal: Bento Bitch

Miguel

Empower: In Defense of Sex Tourism

Chanelle Gallant

Haikus for Mistress Octavia

Jimmy Bob

Honest John: An Interview with Caveh Zahedi

Kristie Alshaibi

Hot Topic: Would You Steal From a Client?

Moxy, Violine Verseau, and Jessica

Indecent Proposal: Tiny Town

Audacia Ray

Healthy Hooker: Condoms 101

Eliyanna Kaiser and Dorothy Schwartz

The Last Outcall

Fabulous

PART V: VIOLENCE

Introduction

Brendan Michael Conner

Paradise Lost, Paradox Found: Or, Don’t Get Caught Slipping in the Big Hypocro-Easy

Cha Cha

Tsunami Report: Sex Workers in South Thailand

Empower Foundation

Epidemic of Neglect: Trans Women Sex Workers and HIV

Mack Friedman

The Unicorn and the Crow

Prin Roussin

Escort Rape Case Causes Uproar in Philadelphia

Catherine Plato

Bodies Across Borders: Experiences of Trafficking and Migration

Melissa Ditmore and Juhu Thukral

PART VI: RESISTANCE

Introduction

Bhavana Karani

I Have Nothing to Say: A Story of Self-Defense

Lynne Tansey

The Cutting Edge: On Sex Workers, Serial Killers, and Switchblades

Sarah Stillman

Fashion with a Function: The Aphrodite Project

Erin Siegal

2 Young 2 B 4Gotten: Youth in the Sex Trade

Brendan Michael Conner, writing as Will Rockwell

Alphabet Hookers: B is for Bobbi

Morgan Ellis

PART VII: MEDIA AND CULTURE

Introduction

Damien Luxe

Sex Work and the City: An Interview with Tracy Quan

Rachel Aimee

Up in Buck’s Business: An Interview with Buck Angel

Audacia Ray

Intercourses: An Interview with Pro-Choice Activist Joyce Arthur

Eliyanna Kaiser

In Her Own Words: An Interview with Deborah Jeane Palfrey

Radical Vixen

The Real Media Whores: Uniting Against Sensationalism in the Wake of Spitzergate

Caroline Andrews

Dirty Words: An Interview with Craig Seymour

Brendan Michael Conner, writing as Will Rockwell

The History of $pread: A Timeline

Acknowledgments

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