Spread : the best of the magazine that illuminated the sex industry and started a media revolution / edited by Rachel Aimee, Eliyanna Kaiser, and Audacia Ray.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aimee, Rachel, editor.

Kaiser, Eliyanna, editor.

Ray, Audacia, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex industry.

Spread (New York, N.Y.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (372 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : The Feminist Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<div>The essential collection by sex workers on sex work, prostitute rights, and the real media whores who sensationalize them.<br></div>

Contents:

Contents; Preface: The Sex Worker Rights Movement in the Early 2000s-A Primer; A Short History of PREAD; 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 Tascha Tasticake; American Brothel: A Photo-Essay | Text and photos by 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 Almee; Respite from the Streets: A Place to Retire ofr Mexico City's Elderly Prostitues | Marisa Brigati, Translated by Elizabeth ""Mark"" Ramage; Black Tale: Wome 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 Daugher'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 Jon (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 AlshaibiHot 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 | Story and photographs by 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 Swtichblades | Sarah Stillman; Fashion with a Function: The Aphrodite Project | Erin Siegal ; 2 Young 2 B 4Gotten: Youth in the Sext Trade | Brendan Michael Conner, writing as Will Rockwell

Alphabet Hookers: B Is for Bobbi | Morgan Ellis

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781558618732

1558618732

OCLC:

905527505