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Home » sex workers

Tag: sex workers

Posted inCity Life

Bonded together in crisis

by Ariel Parrella-Aureli May 18, 2020August 18, 2021

The local sex worker community, hit hard amid the pandemic and ignored by social safety nets, is no stranger to mutual uplifting during tough times.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Enlisting mindfulness to help with lesbian bed death and other sexual problems

by Dan Savage October 3, 2018August 18, 2021

How to make join the physical with the emotional again. Plus: Appalled by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh? Give money to the DNCC!

Posted inColumns & Opinion

‘Could my beautiful bottom boy be turning bi?’

by Dan Savage May 30, 2018August 18, 2021

Dan Savage advises a man whose boyfriend, a self-proclaimed gold-star gay, has developed strange new interests, and more.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

What can clients do to fight laws that harm sex workers?

by Dan Savage September 1, 2016August 18, 2021

Speak up already! Plus: a gay cross-dresser who really shouldn’t adopt.

Posted inBlogs

Sex workers exhibit their art to raise awareness

by H Kapp-Klote March 6, 2015August 18, 2021

The Sex Worker Outreach Project of Chicago hosts its first-ever art show on Friday night.

"Webcamming—aka camwhoring—is widely regarded as the safest form of sex work."
Posted inColumns & Opinion

Will camwhore for beer

by Dan Savage April 24, 2014August 18, 2021

Dan on what his mother would have said had she caught him camwhoring, and selling your panties face-to-face might not be worth the paranoia.

Posted inArts & Culture

The Ladydrawers collective tackles “Sex. Money. Race. Gender.”

by Janet Potter June 26, 2013August 19, 2021

The Ladydrawers collective tackles “Sex. Money. Race. Gender.”

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Savage Love, August 27, 2009

by Dan Savage August 27, 2009August 19, 2021

“Someone telling me that God hates me is about as hurtful as someone telling me that the Blue Fairy thinks I look fat in these jeans.”

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Savage Love, August 13, 2009: George Sodini Got Advice From the Wrong Guy

by Dan Savage August 13, 2009August 19, 2021

George Sodini could’ve benefited from the advice in a recent Savage Love column.

Posted inBlogs

Hot & Bothered

by Ed M. Koziarski July 28, 2009August 19, 2021

“Who better to claim the adult industry for themselves than the women it depends on?” asks Becky Goldberg in her documentary Hot & Bothered: feminist pornography, screening for free tonight at Jane Addams Hull-House Museum.

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