If prostitution becomes legal in South Africa, Nosipho Vidima, a 30-year-old sex worker, knows exactly what she’ll do. She’d start her own business called The Pleasure House, a classy operation staffed with an office administrator trained in finance, a group of prostitutes earning minimum wage – and maybe even an Italian chef.
Pleasure House staff would have all of the benefits extended to many employees in South Africa: maternity leave, vacation days, a predictable schedule. She’d also have a strict condom policy, a necessary precaution in a country where roughly 20 percent of adults 15 to 49 have HIV.
“If tomorrow (the government) came out and said decriminalization has come, I would go around the streets shouting ‘I am free! I am free!’ like people did in 1994,” Vidima says, referring to South Africa’s first democratic elections post-apartheid. “I think that will be my first democratic realization, because 1994 did not work for me as a sex worker.”
It sucks that they would only get minimum wage, but all that other stuff is super cool.
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Here’s What Happened When I Grew Out My Armpit Hair for Porn (Cosmopolitan)
“Hairy” content is one of these thriving niche categories, and many websites make significant and sustainable profits off a desire to see images of sexually confident women with grown-out armpit and pubic hair. Some performers were hairy 24/7 and made the majority of their income capitalizing on it. Other performers went bare in order to work for more mainstream companies, and would occasionally grow their hair out during self-imposed hiatuses and shoot hairy content then. Since my personal preference has always been for minimal body hair, I had all but ruled out working in the hairy niche. But after a few years in California, my feelings have softened and evolved. As my personal schedule grew so packed this year that I found myself shirking my shaving responsibilities out of sheer exhaustion, I figured it might be an opportune time to finally break into hairy porn.
Before this experiment, Andre Shakti has been completely hairless (except for the hair on her head) since her hair started to grow in when she was twelve. I find the thought of that exhausting. So many hours or shaving.
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Sin-A-Rama: Conversation With B. Astrid Daley (The Huffington Post)
Editors B. Astrid Daley and Adam Parfrey have compiled an important collection of historical essays tracking the publishers, editors, writers, illustrators, and gangsters who were making money turning out commercial smut in great volume. In the history of publishing, these guys (unfortunately very few women) waged an important First Amendment battle, sparked by the usual pervert moralists who exist in every generation. These books paved a foundation for the 1960s sexual revolution in plain sight of mainstream American culture. And the artwork looks damn good in 2016.
Can I haz this book?
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