“Times” Into Brothels
All this slideshow package from the New York Times, “Life Inside a Brothel in Cartagena,” makes me want is to set each photo alongside the home bedroom photo of each worker. Or better, any other woman in Cartagena.
About
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.
A Guide to Post-Whore Americana
Or, where you can find my work:
On feminists and evangelicals against sex workers together
On what a "prostitute" really looks like
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 workers as internet entrepreneurs