INTRODUCTION: A Short History of $pread
Rachel Aimee, Eliyanna Kaiser, and Audacia Ray
Includes History of $pread timeline with images
WORKPLACE
Introduction by Lulu
Indecent Proposal: Fucking the Movement
Eve Ryder
Illustration by Fly
Positions: Is Sex Work a Sacred Practice or Just a Job?
Vero Rocks and Tasha Tasticake
American Brothel: A Photo Essay Photos and text by Erin Siegal
Stripping While Brown
Mona Salim
Positions: No Sex in the Champagne Room?
Mary Taylor and Carol Leigh
Menstruation: Porn’s Last Taboo
Trixie Fontaine
Includes a photo from the author’s website.
Diary of a Peepshow Girl
Sheila McClear, writing as Chelsea O’Neill
LABOR
Introduction by Radical Vixen
Positions: Can We Justify Working for Pimps?
Anonymous and Eve Ryder
The Sex Workplace: No Day Without an Immigrant
Rachel Aimee
Respite From the Streets: A Place to Rest for Mexico City’s Elderly
Prostitutes
An Interview with Carmen Muñoz, by Marisa Brigati
Includes a photo by the author
Black Tale: Women of Color in the Porn Industry
Mireille Miller--Young
Includes a photo courtesy of the author
City of Red Lights: Mumbai’s Boomtown of Migrant Laborers
Svati P. Shah
FAMILY AND RELATIONSHIPS
Introduction by Kevicha Echols
Wives
Jenni Russell
Keeping Her Off the Pole: My Daughter’s Right to Choose
Katherine Frank
Hot Topic: People Who Date Sex Workers
Peter, Natalie, Allen, Bob C., and Fred
I (Heart) Affection, and Other Forms of Emotional Masochism
Hawk Kinkaid
Includes an illustration by the author
The Coldest Profession
Eliyanna Kaiser
Illustration by Cristy C. Road
Hell’s Kitchen: Growing Up Loving a Working Mother
Syd V.
Illustration by Sadie Lune
CLIENTS
Introduction by Sarah Elspeth Patterson
Cher John
Mirha--Soleil Ross
Illustration by Molly Crabapple
Indecent Proposal: Bento Bitch
Miguel
Illustration by Fly
Empower: In Defense of Sex Tourism
Chanelle Gallant
Haikus for Mistress Octavia
Jimmy Bob
Honest John: An Interview with Kaveh Zahedi
Kristie Alshaibi
Photo by Kaveh Zahedi
Hot Topic: Would You Steal From a Client?
Moxy, Violine Verseau, and Jessica
Indecent Proposal: Tiny Town
Audacia Ray
Illustration by Fly
Healthy Hooker: Condoms 101
Dorothy Schwartz and Eliyanna Kaiser
The Last Outcall
Fabulous
Illustration by Cristy C. Road
VIOLENCE
Introduction by Brendan Michael Conner
Paradise Lost, Paradox Found
Cha Cha
Tsunami Report: Sex Workers in South Thailand
Empower Foundation
Epidemic of Neglect: Trans Women Sex Workers and HIV
Mack Friedman
The Unicorn and the Crow
Photos and text by Prin Roussin
Escort Rape Case Causes Uproar in Philadelphia
Catherine Plato
Bodies Across Borders
Juhu Thukral and Melissa Ditmore
RESISTANCE
Introduction by Bhavana Karani
I Have Nothing to Say
Lynne Tansey
Illustration by Star St.Germaine
The Cutting Edge: On Sex Workers, Serial Killers, and
Switchblades
Sarah Stillman
Fashion with a Function: The Aphrodite Project
Photo and text by Erin Siegal
2 Young 2B Forgotten
Brendan Michael Conner, writing as Will Rockwell
Healthy Hooker: Cold and Flu Season
Eliyanna Kaiser, with a letter from Tracy Quan
Alphabet Hookers: B is for Bobbi
Morgan Ellis
Illustration by Star St.Germaine
MEDIA AND CULTURE
Introduction by Damien Luxe
Sex Work and the City: An Interview with Tracy Quan
Rachel Aimee
Up in Buck’s Business: An Interview with Buck Angel
Audacia Ray
Includes a photo of Buck Angel.
Intercourses: An Interview with Pro-Choice Activist Joyce
Arthur
Eliyanna Kaiser
The “DC Madam” In Her Own Words: An Interview with Deborah
Jeanne
Palfrey
Radical Vixen
The Real Media Whores: Uniting Against Sensationalism in the Wake
of
Spitzergate
Caroline Andrews
Dirty Words: An Interview with Craig Seymour
Brendan Michael Conner, writing as Will Rockwell
Rachel Aimee cofounded $pread magazine in 2004 and was an
editor-in-chief for four and a half years. Now a parent and
freelance copy editor, she also organizes for strippers' rights
with We Are Dancers. She lives in Brooklyn.
Eliyanna Kaiser is a former executive editor of $pread
magazine. She is currently raising her two children in Manhattan.
In her spare time, she writes fiction.
Audacia Ray is the founder and executive director of the Red
Umbrella Project (RedUP), a peer-led organization in New York that
amplifies the voices of people in the sex trades through media,
storytelling, and advocacy programs. At RedUP, she publishes the
literary journal Prose & Lore: Memoir Stories About Sex Work. She
is the author of Naked on the Internet: Hookups, Downloads, and
Cashing in On Internet Sexploration and has contributed to many
anthologies. She joined the $pread staff in 2004 and was an
executive editor from 2005 to 2008.
"Most magazines tell their readers how to live, what to buy, and
who to be. $pread Magazine, like the best forms of media and art,
shows us ourselves—in ways we have not before recognized. This
anthology is diverse, hilarious, intelligent, resilient,
vulnerable, and sometimes frightening."
—Melissa Febos, author of Whip Smart
"$pread is a fascinating collection from a group of courageous
women who created the first publication to explore sex work in a
compelling and intelligent way. Be prepared to have your
preconceived notions challenged."
—Candida Royalle, author, entrepreneur, erotic film director
"Everyone needs $pread—sex workers, sex customers, sex readers, sex
writers, sex thinkers, and everyone having sex."
—Vanessa Place, author of The Guilt Project
"From activists to mercenaries, college-girl escorts to needle
exchange veterans, $pread published the writing and opinions of sex
workers, for sex workers, warts and all. This smart, funny, and
heartbreaking anthology is as real as you can get."
—Susie Bright, author of Big Sex Little Death
"Spanning Mumbai, Mexico City, New Orleans, New York, and Phuket,
this anthology examines sex work through the politicized lenses of
worker solidarity, communal care, and intersectional feminism.
$pread is a phenomenal resource for sex worker self-determination
and renegade social change."
—Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, author of The End of San Francisco
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