brbxoxo
Brbxoxo is a website created by Addie Wagenknecht and Pablo Garcia that searches for online sex cams and only shows feeds of empty rooms when the performers are absent.
Camgirl Project
CamGirls is a project that investigates the female image within the online world and how it exists in the screen space.
Large Labia Project
This blog is all about large labia, and mostly to do with large labia minora. This is a body-positive blog that aims to show that large labia are normal and beautiful. It provides support for those who feel insecure, self-conscious, victimised or vilified about their large labia.
Invisible Men
The invisible men project shows you words used by men to review their experiences with women in prostitution. Without seeking to prove, disprove or debate choice on the part of the women described, you are invited to consider: what do you think of HIS choice?
The Hoerengracht (Ed and Nancy Kienholz)
‘The Hoerengracht’ (1983–8), by American artists Ed and Nancy Kienholz, will transform the Sunley Room into a walk-through evocation of Amsterdam’s Red Light District.
This highly polemical tableau explores a theme that has been investigated by artists over many centuries and echoes visual traditions well established within European art.
Recalling in particular the Dutch masters of the 17th century, which are strongly represented in the National Gallery, ‘The Hoerengracht’ recreates the brick walls, glowing windows and mysterious doorways of Amsterdam’s claustrophobic streets. At the same time, the half-dressed, garishly lit mannequins of ‘The Hoerengracht’ reveal a theatre of grim sociology, filled with the most vulgar, ugly and ramshackle aspects of society.
Shirin Fakhim's sculpture series Tehran Prostitutes
Shirin Fakhim’s Tehran Prostitutes uses absurd and sympathetic humour to address issues surrounding the Persian working-girl circuit. In 2002 it was estimated that there were 100,000 prostitutes working in Tehran, despite Iran’s international reputation as a moralistic country with especially high standards placed on women. Many of these women are driven to prostitution because of abusive domestic situations and the poverty incurred from the massive loss of men during the war; in response to Iran’s strict religious laws, some even consider the profession as an act of civil protest.
[…]
Approaching sculpture as an intrinsically tactile activity, Fakhim chooses her materials with a playful sensitivity. Crafted from the female stuff of fabric, clothing, and kitchen apparatus, her sculptures temper benign domesticity with a bawdy coarseness, creating a vaudevillian humour from over-stretched stockings, sickly green terrine masks, and exaggeratedly padded brassieres. Hardy practical tools such as stoves and pots create a physical contrast to the fussy adornments of lace and garters, creating an image of sexual prowess that’s conspicuously ill-fitting, painful, and tragic.
Marina Abramovic's performance Role Exchange[6]
Jane Hilton's photography series Precious[7]
I hadn't even thought about prostitution until I walked into a brothel. I was probably very naive, which actually in retrospect did me a favour. I am by nature very non-judgemental, and feel it very important to have experience of a subject matter before making any points of view about it. For the last fifteen years I have spent a lot of time getting to know the working girls from the legal houses in Nevada, producing ten documentary films and an exhibition. I know there are some incredible women hidden in these brothels and I wanted to show this. So I decided to go back again to make a series of intimate portraits in eleven different brothels across Nevada.
Mishka Henner's series No Man's Land
Sex Worker Art Show
The Sex Workers' Art Show was a cabaret-style show featuring visual and performance art created by people who worked in the sex industry. It was created by Annie Oakley in Olympia, Washington, first as a one-off annual event and then growing into a nationally touring show. The SWAS did 6 national tours from 2002-2008, and a mini-tour in 2009. Each tour included 10 performers from all over the world.
The Sex Workers' Art Show brought audiences a blend of spoken word, music, drag, burlesque, and multimedia performance art. The performances offered a wide range of perspectives on sex work, from celebration of prostitutes' rights and sex-positivity to views from the darker sides of the industry. The show included people from all areas of the sex industry: strippers, prostitutes, dommes, film stars, phone sex operators, internet models, etc. It moved sex work dialogue beyond "positive" and "negative" into a fuller articulation of the complicated ways sex workers experience their jobs and their lives. From Annie Oakley’s debate with Laura Ingraham on The O’Reilly Factor, to being a plaintiff in 2 free speech lawsuits against state governments, the SWAS was an active part of a national dialogue on sex worker issues You can read more and see the lineup for the last tour on the website: www.sexworkersartshow.com
Brbxoxo is a website created by Addie Wagenknecht and Pablo Garcia that searches for online sex cams and only shows feeds of empty rooms when the performers are absent.
Camgirl Project
CamGirls is a project that investigates the female image within the online world and how it exists in the screen space.
Large Labia Project
This blog is all about large labia, and mostly to do with large labia minora. This is a body-positive blog that aims to show that large labia are normal and beautiful. It provides support for those who feel insecure, self-conscious, victimised or vilified about their large labia.
Invisible Men
The invisible men project shows you words used by men to review their experiences with women in prostitution. Without seeking to prove, disprove or debate choice on the part of the women described, you are invited to consider: what do you think of HIS choice?
The Hoerengracht (Ed and Nancy Kienholz)
This highly polemical tableau explores a theme that has been investigated by artists over many centuries and echoes visual traditions well established within European art.
Recalling in particular the Dutch masters of the 17th century, which are strongly represented in the National Gallery, ‘The Hoerengracht’ recreates the brick walls, glowing windows and mysterious doorways of Amsterdam’s claustrophobic streets. At the same time, the half-dressed, garishly lit mannequins of ‘The Hoerengracht’ reveal a theatre of grim sociology, filled with the most vulgar, ugly and ramshackle aspects of society.
Shirin Fakhim's sculpture series Tehran Prostitutes
Shirin Fakhim’s Tehran Prostitutes uses absurd and sympathetic humour to address issues surrounding the Persian working-girl circuit. In 2002 it was estimated that there were 100,000 prostitutes working in Tehran, despite Iran’s international reputation as a moralistic country with especially high standards placed on women. Many of these women are driven to prostitution because of abusive domestic situations and the poverty incurred from the massive loss of men during the war; in response to Iran’s strict religious laws, some even consider the profession as an act of civil protest.
[…]
Approaching sculpture as an intrinsically tactile activity, Fakhim chooses her materials with a playful sensitivity. Crafted from the female stuff of fabric, clothing, and kitchen apparatus, her sculptures temper benign domesticity with a bawdy coarseness, creating a vaudevillian humour from over-stretched stockings, sickly green terrine masks, and exaggeratedly padded brassieres. Hardy practical tools such as stoves and pots create a physical contrast to the fussy adornments of lace and garters, creating an image of sexual prowess that’s conspicuously ill-fitting, painful, and tragic.
Marina Abramovic's performance Role Exchange[6]
Jane Hilton's photography series Precious[7]
I hadn't even thought about prostitution until I walked into a brothel. I was probably very naive, which actually in retrospect did me a favour. I am by nature very non-judgemental, and feel it very important to have experience of a subject matter before making any points of view about it. For the last fifteen years I have spent a lot of time getting to know the working girls from the legal houses in Nevada, producing ten documentary films and an exhibition. I know there are some incredible women hidden in these brothels and I wanted to show this. So I decided to go back again to make a series of intimate portraits in eleven different brothels across Nevada.
Mishka Henner's series No Man's Land
Sex Worker Art Show
The Sex Workers' Art Show was a cabaret-style show featuring visual and performance art created by people who worked in the sex industry. It was created by Annie Oakley in Olympia, Washington, first as a one-off annual event and then growing into a nationally touring show. The SWAS did 6 national tours from 2002-2008, and a mini-tour in 2009. Each tour included 10 performers from all over the world.
The Sex Workers' Art Show brought audiences a blend of spoken word, music, drag, burlesque, and multimedia performance art. The performances offered a wide range of perspectives on sex work, from celebration of prostitutes' rights and sex-positivity to views from the darker sides of the industry. The show included people from all areas of the sex industry: strippers, prostitutes, dommes, film stars, phone sex operators, internet models, etc. It moved sex work dialogue beyond "positive" and "negative" into a fuller articulation of the complicated ways sex workers experience their jobs and their lives. From Annie Oakley’s debate with Laura Ingraham on The O’Reilly Factor, to being a plaintiff in 2 free speech lawsuits against state governments, the SWAS was an active part of a national dialogue on sex worker issues You can read more and see the lineup for the last tour on the website: www.sexworkersartshow.com
Paying For It by Chester Brown
Paying for It, "a comic strip memoir about being a john", is a 2011 graphic novel by Canadian cartoonist Chester Brown. A combination of memoir and polemic, the book explores Brown's decision to give up on romantic love and to take up the life of a "john" by frequenting prostitutes. The book, published by Drawn and Quarterly, was controversial, and a bestseller.
The book is concerned with Brown's conflicting desire to have sex, but not wanting to have another girlfriend after his partner Sook-Yin Lee breaks up with him. His solution is to forgo traditional boyfriend/girlfriend relationships and marriage. He takes up frequenting prostitutes, and comes to advocate prostitution as superior to the "possessive monogamy" of traditional male–female relations, which he debates with his friends throughout the book.
Brown presents his views in detail in the closing 50-page text section, which includes a 23-part appendix, end notes, and a note from friend and fellow cartoonist Seth. Despite being about the separation of sex from romantic love, Brown calls the book "a type of love story".[1]
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