Written by Jessie Sage, originally published by the Pittsburgh City Paper. I read a story years ago about the 1998 AVN awards and there was a bit about how the judges who had to watch hours and hours of film found their sexual circuitry kind of burnt out by the end. Many people can’t imagine […]
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Trunk full of condoms gets important conversation started
Written by Jessie Sage, originally published by the Pittsburgh City Paper. As an organizer with the Pittsburgh chapter of the Sex Worker Outreach Project (SWOP), I often receive swag and supplies from some of the organizations we partner with. Recently, Planned Parenthood physicians gave our group several bags of condoms to pass out at events […]
Identifying, processing, and accommodating the emotions involved with sex work
Written by Jessie Sage, originally published by the Pittsburgh City Paper. I have a client, let’s call him Joe, who has been a regular for at least two and a half years. He calls me every few weeks, and we often text in between calls. He’s in a bowling league, and I keep track of […]
Go-go dancer Alicia Lynn is ‘living the Flashdance life!’
Written by Jessie Sage, originally published by the Pittsburgh City Paper. Take a moment to imagine a go-go dancer. What comes to mind? Tall boots? Short skirts? A cage? New York? Los Angeles? Las Vegas? This week I got a chance to sit down with Alicia Lynn, a performer who’s making a living as a […]
Have you locked down your partner this cuffing season?
Written by Jessie Sage, originally published by the Pittsburgh City Paper. With the season changing and the temperatures dropping, many of us find ourselves changing our habits. We pull out the warm clothes, start to eat comfort foods, and prepare for the holidays. But do our habits or attitudes around sex and dating also change? […]
The complicated questions that come with cancer don’t get any easier the second time around
Written by Jessie Sage, originally published by the Pittsburgh City Paper At my husband’s appointment last week, his doctor turned to us and said, “Do you plan on having any more kids?” We both kind of stumbled. The fact of the matter is that while we haven’t planned on having more kids, we also hadn’t […]
If a tree falls on a house and no one is around to mansplain …
Written by Jessie Sage, originally published by the Pittsburgh City Paper. During a wild storm on the evening of Halloween, a tree snapped in half in my front yard and fell on my house, taking out my electrical meter and box, my awning, roof shingles, the gutter, and a few other things. The fact that […]
Sapiosexuality should not be viewed as a derisive term
Written by Jessie Sage, originally published in the Pittsburgh City Paper. Several years ago, I had a brief, albeit steamy, romance with a man I met on OkCupid. At the time, he was writing a dissertation on religious symbolism in medieval Europe. After several days of texts exclusively about our research interests, I invited him […]
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