Do strippers ever get over being strippers?
Some jobs are so distinct from the rest of the world, that the rules of conduct and survival are different. We were a closed community, we had to be.
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Some jobs are so distinct from the rest of the world, that the rules of conduct and survival are different. We were a closed community, we had to be.
Previously published: BUST Magazine Spring/Summer 1996 (as Scarlett Fever) He pushes me inside a yellow cab and stuffs himself in beside me. I hear the first gunshots exploding like Chinese firecrackers in February as the door slams closed. "Drive", he says to the cabbie. "Relax, CeeCee. It's over." He dropped a bloated pink hairless hand …
Previously published: Johns, Marks, Tricks & Chickenhawks (Soft Skull Press, 2013); Best American Erotica, 1995 (Touchstone Book published by Simon and Schuster, 1995 as Scarlett Fever) Originally published: BUST Magazine, Summer/ Fall 1994 (as Scarlett Fever) I paused at the doorway to the dining room of Laurent—it was not quite Lutece, but it was in the same neighborhood, …
Originally published as "Lele" in Hos, Hookers, Callgirls and Rentboys: Professionals Writing on Life, Love, Money, and Sex (SoftSkull, July 2009) I got time to kill. I’m not scheduled to work anywhere tonight and I don’t know what to do with myself. There’s no reason to be home—it’s filthy and me being here …
Menopause was the best thing that could have happened to me. The vodka haze & hormone fog lifted, and if I wasn't that hyper-sexual being, I'd have to redefine myself. (Previously published, October 2015, O, The Oprah Magazine)