So Amanda F*cking Palmer has gotten herself in the middle of a shitstorm, again. Not surprising, as she appears to like controversy (like many artists). This time it's about her request for "professional-ish" volunteer musicians from each town she tours in to be part of her show, in exchange...

Recently I wrote an angry response to an older Tracy McMillan article ("Why You're Not Married"). Her advice seemed outdated, sexist, patriarchal, heterosexist, telling women how they needed to be less driven, less sexual, and less angry in order to "bag a husband." My personal experience...

Taking a half hour break from my marketing job, I decided to catch up with Facebook, as you do. I flipped through cute cat pictures, complaints about weather, political discussions and came across an article several buddies had posted with praise -- the rather firm-sounding "Why You're Not...

I wrote a post last week about the reality of being a sex worker in a relationship, explaining that it's sometimes good, sometimes hard, often complicated.

Well, I have intimate experience with one of the greatest media-fed taboos in sex-worker romances: I fell in love with a...

"So what do you do?" is a question I used to get asked a lot at the pub in London. Generally, I sized the person up and decided how far up the exposure scale I wanted to go. (If you're curious, my answers, from least to most intimate, are blogger,...

As the one who organizes the international chapter of the Ladies High Tea and Pornography Society, and as a feminist sex worker generally, I am often asked how I can support pornography when it is clearly and inherently violence of men toward women -- as Gail Dines says,...

"I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a door mat or a prostitute."
--Rebecca West, "Mr Chesterton in Hysterics: A Study in Prejudice," The Clarion, 14...

The Internet is somewhat like we imagine the old Wild West to have been -- untamed, unregulated and anything goes. Tempers flare fast, and entering a forum can feel like walking into a shootout. Domains are like land snatched up by speculators -- choose wisely, and you could make millions...