POSTWHOREAMERICA is a blog about sex, money, politics, and what's left of America.

It's written by me, Melissa Gira Grant.

I'm a contributor to TheNation.com, Wired.com, the Guardian, Reason, Glamour, Slate, Jezebel, Rhizome, AlterNet, and $pread, among others. I'm a contributing editor at Jacobin, and my essays have been selected for inclusion in the annual anthology Best Sex Writing.

Here's more about me, and my media appearances. My work elsewhere is below.

Or, where you can find my work:

On the fate of Backpage

On human rights and handcuffs

On "happy hookers"

On feminists and evangelicals against sex workers together

On what a "prostitute" really looks like

On Backpage's sex ads

On the danger in closing Craigslist's Erotic Services

On the policing of sex workers

On campaigns to criminalize men who buy sex

On the New York Post's hooker headlines

On serial killers who target sex workers

On "ending demand" for the sex trade

On sex panics and sex ads

On sex workers as internet entrepreneurs

On white saviors