King Kong Theory

The answer to bad porn is not no porn, but to make better porn!’

— Annie Sprinkle, Hardcore from the Heart (2001

James. It is no accident that none of their work has been translated into French, or that Pheterson’s The Prostitution Prism

It was a phrase that also expressed just how painful the closed world of male desire is: what I like doing with you necessarily causes harm.

Traditionally, men and women are not supposed to understand each other, relate to each other, or be
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honest with each other. Clearly, the very possibility is terrifying.

The kind of prostitution covered in documentaries and on the radio by French media is invariably focused on the most sordid: the prostitution that exploits undocumented immigrants.

What could be swifter or more predictable than the fall of a woman who was once beautiful? You don’t need much patience to

are happy to believe that what women enjoy is seducing and unsettling them. It’s pure homosexual transference: if they were female, they’d love to be able to make other guys horny. Okay,

Trying to prevent people from being or doing something is what makes me furious, not who people are or what they do

It’s like no-one’s told them that Santa Claus won’t be coming down the chimney: they only have to glimpse a red coat and they go running after it waving the list of presents they want to see under the Christmas tree.

Pure punk. Without money as a motive, everything

There’s nothing unusual about part-time prostitution. The only exceptional thing in my case is that I talk about it. It’s just a highly-paid job that can be done in complete secrecy by any woman with little or no experience.