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  • $pread: The Best of the Magazine that Illuminated the Sex Industry and Started a Media Revolution
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  • Edited by Rachel Aimee, Eliyanna Kaiser, and Audacia Ray
  • 2015
  • Published by: The Feminist Press
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$pread, an Utne award–winning magazine by and for sex workers, was independently published from 2005 to 2011. This collection features the enduring essays about sex work around the world, first-person stories that range from deeply traumatic to totally hilarious, analysis of media and culture, and fantastic original illustrations and photographs produced just for the magazine. The book also features the previously untold story of $pread and how it has built a wider audience in its posthumous years. What started as a community tool and trade magazine for the sex industry quickly emerged as the essential guide for people curious about sex work, for independent magazine enthusiasts, and for labor and civil rights activists.

Table of Contents

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  1. Title Page, Copyright
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. 5-10
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  1. Preface: The Sex Worker Rights Movement in the Early 2000s- A Primer
  2. pp. 11-16
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  1. Introduction: A Short History of $pread
  2. pp. 17-34
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  1. Part I. Workplace
  1. Introduction
  2. Lulu
  3. pp. 37-38
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  1. 1. Indecent Proposal: Fucking the Movement
  2. Eve Ryder
  3. pp. 39-41
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  1. 2. Positions: Is Sex Work a Sacred Practice or Just a Job?
  2. Vero Rocks, Tasha Tasticake
  3. pp. 42-45
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  1. 3. American Brothel: A Photo-Essay
  2. Erin Siegal
  3. pp. 46-58
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  1. 4. Stripping While Brown
  2. Mona Salim
  3. pp. 59-65
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  1. 5. Positions: No Sex in the Champagne Room?
  2. Mary Taylor, Carol Leigh
  3. pp. 66-68
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  1. 6. Menstruation: Porn's Last Taboo
  2. Trixie Fontaine
  3. pp. 69-79
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  1. 7. Diary of a Peep Show Girl
  2. Sheila McClear
  3. pp. 80-86
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  1. Part II. Labor
  1. Introduction
  2. Radical Vixen
  3. pp. 89-91
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  1. 1. Positions: Can We Justify Working for Pimps?
  2. Anonymous, Eve Ryder
  3. pp. 92-94
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  1. 2. The Sex Workplace: No Day Without an Immigrant
  2. Rachel Aimee
  3. pp. 95-103
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  1. 3. Respite from the Streets: A Place to Retire for Mexico City's Elderly Prostitutes
  2. Marisa Brigati
  3. pp. 104-112
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  1. 4. Black Tale: Women of Color in the American Porn Industry
  2. Mireille Miller-Young
  3. pp. 113-121
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  1. 5. The City's Red Lights: Mumbai's Boomtown of Migrant Laborers
  2. Svati P. Shah
  3. pp. 122-128
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  1. Part III. Family and Relationships
  1. Introduction
  2. Kevicha Echols
  3. pp. 131-132
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  1. 1. Wives
  2. Jenni Russell
  3. p. 133
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  1. 2. Keeping Her Off the Pole: My Daughter's Right to Choose
  2. Katherine Frank
  3. pp. 134-141
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  1. 3. Hot Topic: People Who Date Sex Workers
  2. Peter, Natalie, Allen, Bob C., Fred
  3. pp. 142-145
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  1. 4. I (Heart) Affection, and Other Forms of Emotional Masochism
  2. Hawk Kinkaid
  3. pp. 146-152
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  1. 5. The Coldest Profession
  2. Eliyanna Kaiser
  3. pp. 153-155
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  1. 6. Hell's Kitchen: Growing Up Loving a Working Mother
  2. Syd V.
  3. pp. 156-164
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  1. Part IV. Clients
  1. Introduction
  2. Sarah Elspeth Patterson
  3. pp. 167-168
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  1. 1. Cher John (Dear John)
  2. Mirha-Soleil Ross
  3. pp. 169-174
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  1. 2. Indecent Proposal: Bento Bitch
  2. Miguel
  3. pp. 175-176
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  1. 3. Empower: In Defense of Sex Tourism
  2. Chanelle Gallant
  3. pp. 177-186
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  1. 4. Haikus for Mistress Octavia
  2. Jimmy Bob
  3. pp. 187-188
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  1. 5. Honest John: An Interview with Caveh Zahedi
  2. Kristie Alshaibi
  3. pp. 189-195
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  1. 6. Hot Topic: Would You Steal from a Client?
  2. Moxy, Violine Verseau, Jessica
  3. pp. 196-198
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  1. 7. Indecent Proposal: Tiny Town
  2. Audacia Ray
  3. pp. 199-202
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  1. 8. Healthy Hooker: Condoms 101
  2. Eliyanna Kaiser, Dorothy Schwartz
  3. pp. 203-210
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  1. 9. The Last Outcall
  2. Fabulous
  3. pp. 211-218
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  1. Part V. Violence
  1. Introduction
  2. Brendan Michael Conner
  3. pp. 221-223
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  1. 1. Paradise Lost, Paradise Found: Or, Don't Get Caught Slipping in the Big Hypocro-Easy
  2. Cha Cha
  3. pp. 224-230
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  1. 2. Tsunami Report: Sex Workers in South Thailand
  2. Empower Foundation
  3. pp. 231-234
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  1. 3. Epidemic of Neglect: Trans Women Sex Workers and HIV
  2. Mack Friedman
  3. pp. 235-243
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  1. 4. The Unicorn and the Crow
  2. Prin Roussin
  3. pp. 244-249
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  1. 5. Escort Rape Case Causes Uproar in Philadelphia
  2. Catherine Plato
  3. pp. 250-252
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  1. 6. Bodies Across Borders: Experiences of Trafficking and Migration
  2. Melissa Ditmore, Juhu Thukral
  3. pp. 253-262
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  1. Part VI. Resistance
  1. Introduction
  2. Bhavana Karani
  3. pp. 265-266
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  1. 1. I Have Nothing to Say: A Story of Self-Defense
  2. Lynne Tansey
  3. pp. 267-272
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  1. 2. The Cutting Edge: On Sex Workers, Serial Killers, and Switchblades
  2. Sarah Stillman
  3. pp. 273-280
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  1. 3. Fashion with a Function: The Aphrodite Project
  2. Erin Siegal
  3. pp. 281-282
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  1. 4. 2 Young 2 B 4Gotten: Youth in the Sex Trade
  2. Brendan Michael Conner
  3. pp. 283-293
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  1. 5. Alphabet Hookers: B Is for Bobbi
  2. Morgan Ellis
  3. pp. 294-298
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  1. Part VII. Media and Culture
  1. Introduction
  2. Damien Luxe
  3. pp. 301-303
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  1. 1. Sex Work and the City: An Interview with Tracy Quan
  2. Rachel Aimee
  3. pp. 304-314
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  1. 2. Up in Buck's Business: An Interview with Buck Angel
  2. Audacia Ray
  3. pp. 315-321
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  1. 3. Intercourses: An Interview with Pro-Choice Activist Joyce Arthur
  2. Eliyanna Kaiser
  3. pp. 322-328
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  1. 4. In Her Own Words: An Interview with Deborah Jeane Palfrey
  2. Radical Vixen
  3. pp. 329-339
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  1. 5. The Real Media Whores: Uniting Against Sensationalism in the Wake of Spitzergate
  2. Caroline Andrews
  3. pp. 340-347
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  1. 6. Dirty Words: An Interview with Craig Seymour
  2. Brendan Michael Conner
  3. pp. 348-355
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  1. 7. The History of $pread: A Timeline
  2. pp. 356-366
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. 367-368
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