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Access Denied: How ASMR Redefines Digital Intimacy
Gianna Ferrarin discusses how ASMRtists’ encounters with anti-pornography restrictions online is forcing creators to rethink what constitutes an expression of intimacy or sexuality.
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Private Eye: Inside Cammie Toloui's "5 Dollars For 3 Minutes"
Toloui’s photos turn the peep show around on its audience.
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Sex Workers Deserve Better than OnlyFans
Why would OnlyFans bite the hand that feeds it?
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Terms of Service: Inside Social Media’s War on Sex Workers
Instagram has long used strict terms of service to antagonize sex workers.
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Moral Panic: Matt Gaetz Embodies the Evangelical Movement’s Skewed Obsession with Sex Trafficking
It’s somewhat ironic to see Gaetz caught up in his own culture’s favorite moral panic.
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A Man Walks Into a Day Spa: Sex-Trafficking Legislation Protects the Wealthy—and Punishes the Powerless
The case of Robert Kraft and Orchids of Asia is the latest coda to an old story.
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Rescue Rom-Com: Sex Workers Reflect on the Fantasy of “Pretty Woman”
Pretty Woman is to real-life sex work what the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are to actual ninjas.
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“Blacklight” Spins a New Tale about Strippers in New Orleans
Sex workers are very dynamic and have their own varied, colorful lives.
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The Grift List: Bella Thorne’s OnlyFans Debacle Screwed Over Sex Workers
She used OnlyFans as a playground for her celebrity voyeurism.
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Hustle & Glow: “P-Valley” Puts Black Southern Strippers in the Spotlight
The show is an expansive portrait of poverty, racism, misogyny and the Black Southern pride that pushes back against oppression.
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