Former New York City teacher Melissa Petro, who taught in the Bronx, was forced to resign due to her extra curricular activities. Petro revealed she worked as a hooker and a stripper. Petro, 31 worked as an art teacher for P.S. 70 in the Bronx. She also explained how she provided her sexual favors through Craigslist post in the months of October 2006 and January 2007. Petro claims she stopped working as a prostitute months before her teaching gig.

The New York Post let us in on what Melissa Petro has been up too.

The ex-art teacher will pose for Penthouse’s February issue for a story charmingly titled, “Unrepentant Whore.” The ex-educator, who now makes a living writing about her sexy past, has mixed feelings about the pictures, in which she appears partly nude. The shoot, at New York S&M dungeon Pandora’s Box, involved Petro posing in the clichéd role of a sexy teacher. In a column for xoJane.com, she writes that the photographer’s “vision, as he explained it that day, was for the ‘hooker’ teacher to reclaim her power

Petro says she feels empowered by it all: “A part of me likes being exposed — the more exposed the better.”