The Venetian courtesan has long captured the imagination as a female symbol of sexual license, elegance, beauty, and unruliness. What then to make of the cortigiana onesta—the honest courtesan who recast virtue as intellectual integrity (more…)

These are my confessionz

Nina was a young, attractive woman, with a svelte body. She had a mind for business and a body for sin.

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The Aftermath…

In the first part of this little story I had agreed to help Lisa pay back some money she had put out for a career search program. She had started with the program and it was not for her. Her husband was beyond peeved about the deal and I agreed to help her pay it back. (more…)

Q: What do you think of the music played at your current club?

Asia: I think it’s very sexual. You know, the meaning of hip hop and R&B, it’s not the same as it used to be. It’s more about grinding, opposed to the beat and the melody…. the lyrics are very explicit. Very.… I like the music here, but a lot of  songs they play for me, I don’t like. Like when they use the b-word, or call women whores…times they [the lyrics] degrade women. (more…)

In the amazing world of exotic dancing people always talk about what the customer prefer, but what does the entertainer prefer. Walking through a room of testosterone driven men, what turns on the entertainer, what type of guy is she looking for. Is the entertainer going for any guy or is she making this experience just as good for her as it is for him. (more…)

Gypsy Rose Lee’s memoir became a New York Times bestseller in 1957, inspiring the 1959 hit musical, two movies, and three revivals. Now a fourth, directed by Arthur Laurents and starring Patti LuPone, is lighting up New York, winning top Broadway theatre awards, including three 2008 Tony Awards, as well as raves from critics and audiences: (more…)