Written by Jessie Sage originally Published in The Pittsburgh City Paper. Last year, I held a workshop about dirty talk in phone sex work at a club in Canada. Given that it was a space designed for public enactments of sexuality, I wasn’t surprised to find my presentation competing with jumbo TV screens playing pornography. An […]
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With Pornography Ubiquitously Available for Free Online, What Keeps the Phone Sex Industry Alive?
Written by Jessie Sage, originally published in the Pittsburgh City Paper. Typically, when I tell folks that I am a phone sex operator, it’s met with confusion. “That still exists?” This even comes from those within the sex industry who believe that the internet, with its ubiquitous porn and live sex-camming, must have rendered the phone […]
Episode 27: Vera Sky on Race, Size, and Representation in the Cam Industry
In Episode 27 we interview Vera Sky, XBIZ’s 2017 Cam Model of the Year. We talk to her about her life and her career. We also tackle issues of race, body size, and representation, as well as what it is like to be a sex worker in middle America. But, before we do that, we reflect on what Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings have signified for women in this country.
Body Acceptance in Unexpected Places
Written by Jessie Sage, originally published in the Pittsburgh City Paper. I stand in front of the mirror touching up red lipstick and thickening winged eyeliner before work. My thighs extend out from a high-cut, black lace bodysuit. I bemoan their thickness and cellulite. In a moment of self-doubt, I question my desirability. Why did I […]
Episode 26: Hacking and Hustling: A sex worker led tech conference
We cover Hacking//Hustling: A Platform for Sex Workers in a Post SESTA World with a combination of interviews and captured audio.
We discuss the need for a sex worker centered tech conferences with Ingrid Burrington, an Eyebeam art resident who helped to facilitate the event. We then move to footage of the sex worker panel that kicked off the event. We feature snippets of Tina Horn, Lorelei Lee, Danielle Blunt, and Melissa Gira Grant.
We also talk to Britt Schulte, who curated the Whores Will Rise: Protest Art and Resistant Ephemera Against FOSTA/SESTA, the art exhibit running in conjunction with the event; and we talk to Joanna Gould and Sally Szwed, Eyebeam staff.
Finally, we bring you three longer interviews. First, we talk to Sophie Searcy from t4tech, about digital hygiene; second, to sex worker Tourma, and her client Rick about their trip to the conference together; and, lastly, to Danielle Blunt and Melissa Gira Grant about their reflections on the conference as a whole.
Reflecting on Christine Blasey Ford’s All-Too-Familiar Testimony
Like many women, I found Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony all too familiar, bringing up deeply buried events I’d experienced in the past. This is why I want to step back from the specifics of the allegations against Judge Brett Kavanaugh, and the partisan political implications of his confirmation hearings, to instead focus on why so […]
Episode 25: Rev. Beverly Dale on Preaching Sex Positive Christianity
In Episode 25 we interview the Rev. Dr. Beverly Dale about her sex positive Christian ministry. We talk about her personal history with the Church, and how she came to believe that the Church is on the wrong side of sexual politics. We also talk about sex work as a form of ministry.
Episode 24: Mistress Eva on Being an Asian Dominatrix
In Episode 24 we interview Mistress Eva, a semi-retired Professional Dominatrix who now runs an online BDSM slave training program and tours worldwide with a base in Bali, Indonesia. We talk about her life, work, and the ways that being an Asian sex worker in an Asian context is different than the experiences of Western sex workers.
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