I almost sold my teenage body to get a friend’s boyfriend out of jail. Well before I was a sex worker, I knew the power I had as an...

Quote of the night: ‘There’s a ten if you make me nut.’ What I love about this statement is its absolute absurdity and the cojones it...

I just danced for a pretty cool guy. And he had money to boot! He owns real estate in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York, which is...

Excerpt from Anything But a Wasted Life The first time I sold my body for money, I was twenty-six and change. A man came into Mitchell...

I was single and not feeling guilty about stripping for the first time in years. I felt good about myself and my life. It’s strange that...

I auditioned at a new club. Actually, I got gussied up, wore my best whore-y outfit and drove to Carson to try to get hired at a club a...

Valentine’s Day at The Bare Elegance. Shit, I’m tired. When are we closing? The last thing in the world I want to do right now is flirt...

My first serious relationship after I got sober was with a man named Ed. I met him at a meeting in San Rafael. Ed was only twenty-three...

A friend of a friend made a negative crack about strippers the other night. I should have asked what the fuck he was doing with his life...

I used to have a weekly lunch rendezvous with a client at a hotel LAX Hilton. We met at 1 p.m. on the dot every Tuesday. He insisted on...

..on the toilet seat! I hate when women come into the club (or any public bathroom) and pee all over the toilet seat. Do you understand...

Why the hell is there a super-bright, yellow halogen spotlight shining from above, traveling around the floor? Do you know what a...

There’s been some good cock talk happening in the dressing room tonight. Strip club dressing rooms are like girls’ night out on crack....

But something was clearly amiss. Todd and I had to speak in code over the phone and often used temporary cell phones from 7-Eleven. Even...

I went to India ten or so years ago in search of spiritual guidance. I remember thinking, so what, this guy meditated on top of a...