The Girlfriend Experience, a film about high-class call-girls and the men who pay for them, aired earlier this week at the Tribeca Film Festival just a few blocks north of where the real action took place—Wall Street. Director Steven Soderbergh called upon adult-film star Sasha Grey to take the lead, a role that, surprisingly, made the porn actress weary.

"I got [to my first sex scene], and I was only nervous waiting around," the actress told MTV News. Then once the scene started, I was fine. But working for Steven—it's like, 'Am I doing this right? Should … Read More

OK, this is admittedly gossipy and a touch tawdry but let's be a sewing circle for the next 10 minutes and gab about it anyway. It'll be fun. We promise. 

So last year, former New York governor Eliot Spitzer (Client 9 if you're nasty) was outed in a rather embarrassing prostitution scandal involving a hooker ring called Emperors Club VIP and a prostitute named "Kristen." Client 9 was a loyal customer of the high-priced ho stroll and is thought to have spent $15, 000 on sex in a six-month period. His swan song to the world of high … Read More

Junior year of high school, my first serious boyfriend cheated on me -- with a soccer referee who was also named "Jessica," if I remember correctly.  

I should have seen it coming -- he was a soccer playing jock, a "bad boy," and so handsome that even my father said he looked like a "Greek god. But I was in loooooooove and so I did what any other 17-year-old girl would have done in this situation:

I found out that girls's AIM screenname and confronted her over the Internets.

But things didn't exactly go as … Read More

 Craiglist.org announced yesterday it is helping to weed out prostitution from its "erotic services."   (Uh oh!  We thought that being a lady of the night was a recession-free gig!)

At the behest of attorney generals around the country hoping to regulate prostitution, Craiglist.org asked the posters advertising in their "erotic services" section to provide a valid phone number last March, The New York Times reports. 

But today Craigslist agreed to require a valid ID and announced it would charge such posters a small fee -- possibly $10 -- to post.  The funds earned from that charge … Read More

This may shock you gentle reader, but in times of a bad economy men are still horny. And not just your normal garden variety horny, but the let's-shell-out-a-portion-of-our-pay-check-for-some-hooker-love horny.

According to the New York Daily News, regardless of a loosey goosey economy, a prostitution job in the red light district may, ironically, offer more security than one in the fluorescent lights.

"The market is down, business is down, but we feel it less," said Dylan, 24, a Manhattan prostitute, part of a Madame Sadie's prostitution den. "We're still busy."

Granted, Madame Sadie's girls aren't the high rolling hookers … Read More

San Francisco Chronicle’s Violet Blue had a Q & A with a sex worker currently working the San Francisco market. Quite an interesting read, we must say. Lots of details.

So how do the Bay Area boys rate? All in all, she says the men are polite, well-rounded, liberal, and ideal clients.

Unfortunately, there’s more paid sex to go around than there is interested parties:

"…the ratio of straight men to other people is different than in most other major cities such as Chicago, New York, Boston or Philadelphia. So the ratio of providers to consumers … Read More

Ronaldo (not to be confused with Ronaldinho or Cristiano Ronaldo) got caught in an Eddie Murphy-esque predicament involving 3 crossdressing prostitutes a week or so back. You may know the Brazilian soccer star from his fantastic work as AC Milan's striker before he hurt himself). At any rate, one of the prostitutes alleges that there was drug-use and sex involved. Ronaldo claims that no such sex or drug use happened and he turned the hookers in to the fuzz when they threatened him with blackmail (or possibly Brazilian-male).

So, the story goes that Ronaldo was drinking and watching futbol … Read More

We’re not sure if you heard about this one, but you know how fast cars go with hot women (and vice versa)? It appears that fast cars and kinky dudes are buddies too. The head of the FIA, the body that governs Formula One racing, was part of a crazy YouTube video. Max Mosley and 5 hookers c*m actresses (buh dum pah), played out a fun little sex fantasy replete with kink. That kink includes S&M, Nazi costumes, and German accents. Basically, Mosley takes a good paddling, then turns the tables on his sexy abusers and hands out the … Read More

We couldn't help but be drawn to sexwork101.com, a new web site devoted to educating regular people like us on the sex industry.

sexwork101.com and boundnotgagged.com, a blog for sex workers, fill in the gaps between what we know and what the media offers us. We found the glossary particularly helpful, as these Spitzer-scandal times call for the correct verbiage. No need to offend anyone!

From the site:

When the sex industry is covered by the mainstream media, they often use phrases and words to describe the sex industry … Read More