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05.30.05 (10:58 pm) [edit]$pread is a sexworker's magazine on the business. I had come across an article on it before somewhere in a city paper but I never saw an actual copy until I finally discovered it in a lingerie shop in Park Slope, Bklyn where I stepped into to get some things to be equipped with for my job. I just found out that they were those who rarely carried the magazine, which turned out to have a good range of coverage of the subject matter and it does maintain certainly quite a quality of the writings; I did not really expect this. I bet that I throw this into my 'to prescribe list' along with Bust and Glamour en France. The next issue will have an interview of Michelle Tea, the author of Valencia and Chelsea Whistle and now Rent Girl as a lesbian progressive sexworker.
The last one Rent Girl is her memoir as a former hooker in a graphic novel. The interesting comment Tea made on it and the business is also in the review of the book. Let me quote some from it:
"once I did it I knew I could always do it, survive it, and it is lodged now forever in my most desperate places, a final fall back plan." In a mind-blowingly honest moment, she describes her sometime urge to get back into the biz as a sort of blindness-"I'm older now, smarter and less damaged...and I would forget how much I hate whoring the way an alcoholic foegets how much she hates to get drunk."
...In the end, Michelle does a great job of shedding light on a much undiscussed topic: how far we are wiling to go to feed ourselves, and the mild shock that sex workers often feel upon discovering that there is always another person willing to do the things you find offensive, even impossible.
The latter part indeed paraphrases the whole structure of the current market in the US that is divided into races and nationalities; some are underpriced and assigned to take all the shittiest parts to make livings such as minorities and/or foreigners whereas white American workers have options and still make sufficient livings.
I am going back to the full working gear now that I am off the school finally.