After gaining 5, subscribers in the following months, it drew the attention of mainstream outlets including the Washington Post and NPR, and was published in book form in by Tiger Bee Press, run by Shane and her partner, Sam Dakota.
It is an idea exemplified in Prostitute Laundry, in which sex work is the basis for a sustained and careful examination of human behaviour. Prostitute Laundry offers an alternative to liberal politics of fear and vulnerability, and forms a portrait of a life lived in complexity and beauty. In that time, a couple of important things have pretty much ceased to exist in the exact way they do in the book.
How vital were those contexts to the production of the book? Some of that is specific to the United States, but phenomena like shadow banning are definitely not.
When I started escorting, I just paid to place an ad. Everything feels frantic and bad right now when it comes to marketing for sex workers. Internet writing is not any better. CS There were many more blogs when I was learning how to write professionally. Exposure now is rightfully denigrated as a form of non-payment that pretends to be payment, but there was more to it back then.
Could you tell me a bit more about that? CS When I first started the newsletter that begat the book, I was so unhappy. I tend to think of the book as being a very happy book, describing a time when I was travelling constantly and where there was never a dull moment.
