For one night only, catch a special screening of the I Didn’t See You There (2022) in the presence of director Reid Davenport. The award-winning disabled documentarian will attend the 6 PM screening of his film tonight at the Gene Siskel Film Center (164 N. State) and participate in a discussion moderated by disabled artist […]
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Mapping sex work in Chicago
Rebelle Cunt, a writer, activist, and self-proclaimed Chicago “heaux-storian,” is the founder and director of Heaux History, a multimedia archive that explores the history of Black, Brown, and Indigenous sex workers and erotic labor. When Cunt began to search for research on sex worker history in Chicago, she struggled to find any literature written through […]
Sex work from home
Several Chicagoans have made the leap into adult entertainment using websites like OnlyFans.
Zola challenges mainstream thinking about sex work
And on top of that, it’s a perfect summer romp.
Cybersex and sex work in Second Life
The virtual world is still a sanctuary for folks leaning into their sexual fantasies.
‘We’re not always treated like people’
Before the pandemic shuttered strip clubs, dancers were fighting exploitation and moving their work online.
Quick hits
Dan Savage advises a dude held back by his small dick, a teacher who wants to moonlight as a sex worker, and more.
Field notes from the war on sex
A century ago, the Committee of Fifteen hunted for “houses of ill-fame.”
When sex work and art work collide
The kinksters, the queers, and the artists who live in both worlds.
How Lily Be made the local storytelling scene look more like Chicago
“Am I the only Latinx sharing stories right now? Where are the rest of us?”
Preckwinkle fund-raising e-mail seeks to capitalize on Cyntoia Brown case
But the mayoral candidate doesn’t mention ways to help the Tennessee woman who killed her sexual assaulter at 16 and got a life sentence.
Enlisting mindfulness to help with lesbian bed death and other sexual problems
How to make join the physical with the emotional again. Plus: Appalled by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh? Give money to the DNCC!
‘If I find someone who will pay me to suckle my milk, is that prostitution?’
A hard-up single mom inquires. Plus: confidential to Mr. SPOUSE, gay cuckoldry
What can clients do to fight laws that harm sex workers?
Speak up already! Plus: a gay cross-dresser who really shouldn’t adopt.