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New Post: I guess my smartphone is ok

Whenever I use it to surf the web or upload anything, I can’t help but consider what I might be sharing, and with whom…

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Servicing the Pole

Some people have nightmares about showing up to work naked.

Other people live them.

Servicing the Pole is the portrait of a New York stripper – a battle-worn misfit slogging her way through the city’s roughest clubs, watching as the job replaces her personal life, and secretly harbouring rock star ambitions.

As the fast-paced night life’s deceptive promises of easy money gradually give way to the harsher realities of addiction and prostitution, Emily must decide – is this really the person she wants to be? And if so, at what price?


Hos, Hookers, Call Girls, and Rent Boys

Buy Hos, Hookers, Callgirls, and Rent BoysLauri has a short story in the anthology “Hos, Hookers, Call Girls, and Rent Boys: Professionals Writing on Life, Love, Work & Money!” Soft Skull Press ISBN: 1593762410.

"An eye-opening, occasionally astonishing, brutally honest and frequently funny collection of prose and poetry by all kinds of sex workers." – The New York Times

"What’s most striking about the volume is how relevant these intimate and detailed chronicles are for any reader, whether they’ve sold their bodies or just their souls." – New York Press

Buy it on Amazon.com right now.

For more info, check out the book's website at www.hoshookerscallgirlsrentboys.com.


3 Naked Ladies

Three naked ladies talk about their view from the stages and laps in the 70’s, 80’s, 90’s and today, a collaborative blogging series about sex work that ran from August - December 2009.

New Post: Round 4

Advice for the New Kids on the Street,
from the Girls who’ve been around the Block!

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