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Sleeping Beauty is a Ho…
A new take on an old fairy tale makes “sleeping beauty” a sex worker who actually has sex or something like sex with clients who pay to molest her while she slumbers. Written and directed by Australian writer Julia Leigh, … Continue reading
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Sexworkers, Snow and a Serial Killer
Just another movie about sex workers as victims and clients as deranged killers. The Frozen Ground stars 50 Cent as a pimp, Nic Cage as a state trooper, Vanessa Hudgens as the teenage victim who gets away and helps catch … Continue reading
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The Real Deal – Hung actor says he was a real life Ho!
Thomas Jane, star of HBO’s Hung, revealed he sometimes worked as a hustler. In sunday’s L.A. Times, Jane said, “Hey, you grow up as an artist in a big city, as James Dean said, you’re going to have one arm … Continue reading
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L.S.O.C. (Little Slut on Campus)
There’s a very common whore archetype in movies – the sad sack slut. She’s looking for love in all the wrong places i.e. Tralala, played by Jennifer Jason Leigh, in Last Exit to Brooklyn or Sera, played by Elizabeth Shue, … Continue reading
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“Fuck that mirror like you mean it!” Soderbergh’s zooms in on Strippers
Magic Mike, the latest Steven Soderbergh film, is a slice of life on the pole. Based on actor Channing Tatum’s true life adventures as a dancer prior to hitting the big time in Hollywood, Soderbergh once again finds a secret … Continue reading
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Sophia Loren Queen of Sin-ematic Sex Workers
Been sick for a few days so what better excuse to watch great movies with great sex worker heroines. Now that I’ve watched Vittorio De Sica’s Marriage Italian Style and Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow – I’m going to have to … Continue reading
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Nights of Cabiria
Just watched Le Notti di Cabiria, the 1957 Fellini film starring his wife Giulietta Masina. Made in 1957 during the tail end of Fellini’s neorealist period – Cabiria is a hard-knocks hooker working the less upscale neighborhoods of Rome. She … Continue reading
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Fifteen Best Celluloid Sex Workers
1. Sadie Thompson(1928) – w/Gloria Swanson – This silent film, based on the short story, “Rain”, by W. Somerset Maugham, is classic “fallen woman” fare. Sadie travels to Pago Pago to reinvent herself but once there finds a manic missionary … Continue reading
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Polly Platt, writer of Pretty Baby, Dies at 72
Polly Platt, writer of Pretty Baby, the affectionate and lovely story of a turn of the century, New Orleans brothel, dies at 72. Continue reading
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