Reading Time: 6 minutes I stripped on and off for over 20 years. And in all that time, I think I met maybe four of the owners of the strip clubs I worked at. I actually spoke more than a few words with only two out of those four. Frankly, in all that time I had plenty of reservations […]
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Tales from the strip club: CJ
Reading Time: 6 minutes The foundation of a successful trip to the strip club isn’t the strippers. Surprising right? It’s actually the DJ. They set the mood and the overall tone of the entire experience. DJs don’t just spin music and introduce the dancers on stage. They control the lighting and timing. To me, they’re like gods, but after […]
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Tales from the strip club: Damien the bouncer
Reading Time: 6 minutes The strip club can feel like a dangerous place. And honestly, sometimes it is, but most of the time it is one of the safest places for sex workers. That’s because of the bouncers and other male staff that work there. On the front line so to speak, bouncers or security staff are the first […]
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What’s the future for legalizing psychedelics?
Reading Time: 6 minutes OnlySky · What's the future for legalizing psychedelics | Becky Garrison As Michael Pollan reported in his Netflix documentary How to Change Your Mind, psychedelics have been viewed as part of the turn-on, tune-in, drop-out culture popularized by the likes of Timothy Leary, Ken Kesey, and other merry pranksters of the ‘60s, at least in […]
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Naked alliance: A community forged by stigma
Reading Time: 3 minutes A group of women came in one evening to the strip club where I worked. In their mid-thirties, they were dressed nicely but not conservatively. There were about five of them in all and they all had one obvious trait in common: they all wore the same look of disgust. They sat at the stage […]
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Tales from the strip club: Kitana
Reading Time: 6 minutes This tall Asian beauty was hard to miss in the club. Being about a foot shorter than her, I had the pleasure of talking to her boobs most of the time. If there was drama or a stripper beef in the club, it never involved Kitana. She had the type of presence and personality that […]
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Celebrating the sex-positive power of the pussy
Reading Time: 3 minutes OnlySky · Celebrating the sex-positive power of the pussy with Eleanor O’Brien | Becky Garrison While the current “talk” about female sexuality may come off as sounding “sex-positive,” corporate media remains stuck in the era of Mad Men. Taboo topics remain taboo with sites such as OnlySky getting demonetized by their ad server for penning […]
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How tantra connects sexuality and spirituality
Reading Time: 3 minutes While most Westerners associate tantra with sex, tantric touching provides a way to delve into your erotic side in a way that’s sensual, though not necessarily sexual in nature. Tantra is a centuries-old, highly refined method for self-realization that originated in Northern India. The type of tantra familiar to most Westerners, however, is closer to […]
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In an era of reproductive justice battles, National Masturbation Month matters
Reading Time: 3 minutes Masturbation has been a taboo subject for much of Western history. Early Christians declared it a sin, while European medicine and psychology took it up in a pathologizing way. But we’ve come a long way from thinking masturbation condemns you to hell or that it causes hair to grow on the palms of your hands, […]
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Just beat it: Celebrating National Masturbation Month
Reading Time: 3 minutes We all do it, at least most of us do. And yet we all pretend we don’t. Who me? Why I never… Why the denial? Why is this very natural, human, and healthy activity such a source of embarrassment? Assuming you’re keeping it strictly to yourself, it doesn’t affect anyone except the person doing it. […]