You didn’t know you’d stare middle age in the face and carry its soggy weight for everyone. And yet, you don’t feel ugly or incapable. The first time you quit stripping in 2003, you shoved your pink spandex bikinis and black booty shorts into a garbage bag and brought them to a lesbian bar in […]
I want to celebrate my beauty and my body and my whole self as I am, not as I wish I were. When my memoir Stripping Down was published in 2012, I thought I would be done with needing to talk about my risqué younger life, which included stripping and nude modeling. I would be […]
This story first appeared as part of Ravishly.com‘s special Conversation series exploring the sex work industry. Individuals who consider all sex workers to be victims make it that much harder for us to be honest. People act unhurt for all sorts of reasons. It’s not simply a matter of denial—it’s a coping mechanism, a way to survive. Indeed, by “acting […]
This originally appeared on The Daily Life. Republished here with permission. Some traditions should never have taken off in the first place. 1. National Proposal Day Ladies, are you tired of being left on the shelf? Have you been shacked up with your beloved for years and he’s still not willing to put a ring on it? Why not […]
