FEMINISTS AND SEX WORK: WHAT YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT
I didn’t really know what to expect when I started stripping. It takes some digging to find truthful information about what the adult industry is like and, for someone who grew up in the conservative countryside of a religious country, that information was never really accessible. The only thing I thought I knew was that…
Edie Montana
FINDING LOVE AND BUILDING HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS AS A SEX WORKER
It was a hot summer and I was working in a city two hours away from Berlin. The strip club and the dancers’ accommodation were located in the industrial area, and there wasn’t much to do besides hanging out in the car park, smoking one cigarette after the other, waiting for the evening to come…
THE (NOT SO) GLAMOROUS LIFE OF A STRIPPER
I am sat in the corner next to the bar, letting my back sink into the couch, my legs spread open. I stopped pretending for the night; I am just waiting for the manager to send me home. I stare at the ashtray and count the crumpled butts accumulated in a smelly pile sprinkled by…
BUT WHAT IS YOUR REAL NAME?
It’s gotten pretty late in the morning. The bartenders are wiping the tables and emptying the ashtrays, but my customer hands me more cash to extend the private dance. He is a local and his flat is just nearby – I know it for a fact because he told me nine or ten times. I…