Pinko Magazine Hedonism + Activism

My absolute favorite writer for The Nation, JoAnn Wypijewski, has an interesting piece out today that looks at sex workers as a bellwether for the struggling economy. Like beauticians or personal trainers, she writes, sex work is a profession where the depths of recession can be measured in real time. 

In hard times a client might go longer between visits, might want less than the full treatment, might talk more about problems (or not), might expect that loyalty counts for something, and as every hairdresser knows, it does… Like the hairdresser, who is hurt when sex workers have less money to spend, the hooker will have to be flexible, to do more with less, and do it gracefully, with a confidence that neither the markets nor the arm-candy girlfriend and maybe not even the wife has.

You can read the whole piece here.

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