The Girls Next Door
An investigation of the American sex trafficking industry.
An investigation of the American sex trafficking industry.
Amy Fine Collins Vanity Fair May 2011 45min Permalink
A profile of Arnold Schwarzenegger written during his first year in office as Governor of California:
"You know, the thing I love about Mexican women is how furry their pussies are."
Connie Bruck New Yorker Jun 2004 1h5min Permalink
The social rituals of the pansexual, bi-queer, metroflexible New York teen.
Alex Morris New York Jan 2006 20min Permalink
On the “world’s largest social network that you probably haven’t yet heard of” and its enigmatic founder.
David Rowan Wired (UK) Apr 2011 15min Permalink
An oral history of the Playboy Clubs.
Bruce Handy Vanity Fair May 2001 40min Permalink
An investigation into the sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests in Alaska Native villages.
Brendan Kiley The Stranger Feb 2009 20min Permalink
On being the lone male student at a women’s college.
Jay Dixit Rolling Stone Mar 2001 15min Permalink
One part rapist, one part con-man; the story of the seemingly unconvictable Hy Doan.
Denise Grollmus Cleveland Scene Sep 2005 15min Permalink
The decades-long saga of Miami’s Take Once Cocktail Lounge, where you might get shot, your money will definitely be laundered, and everybody will know your name.
Gus Garcia-Roberts The Miami New Times Feb 2011 20min Permalink
The man who brought together heat, yoga, monthly fees to use his methods, and raw sexuality, on allegations that he has slept with scores of his followers: “Only when they give me no choice! If they say to me, ‘Boss, you must fuck me or I will kill myself,’ then I do it! Think if I don’t! The karma!”
Clancy Martin GQ Feb 2011 Permalink
GQ moved up the release of this Charlie Sheen profile: ”The fucking AA shit. The sobriety shit. It was always for other people. I just wanted to get a job back and get enough money to tell everybody to go fuck themselves and then roll like Errol Flynn and Frank Sinatra—the good parts of those guys.”
Amy Wallace GQ Apr 2011 Permalink
On existing as a girl in the boy’s club that is the world.
Molly Lambert This Recording Feb 2011 25min Permalink
At the very bottom of the porn totem pole is the “mope”, a barely paid assistant who hangs around and occasionally performs. Stephen Hill was mope-ing for Ultima Studios in exchange for pocket money and a place to crash. Learning he was going to be evicted, he sharpened a prop machete.
Michael Albo LA Weekly Feb 2011 15min Permalink
Brooklyn, Illinois has one of the most dense clusters of strip clubs and rubdown parlors in the entire country, drawing patrons from nearby St. Louis and its suburbs. Inside the clubs with the dancers, a strip club scholar, the mayor, and the regulars whose dollars keep the depressed local economy afloat.
Scott Eden Maisonneuve Dec 2004 50min Permalink
Supply and demand paid-sex economics, ‘hobbyist’ internet message boards, and the power of reviews.
Bianca McSweeney's Feb 2011 Permalink
What has Ted Haggard, who left the New Life megachurch after admitting he purchased crystal meth and sexual favors from a male escort, been doing in the four years since? Selling insurance door to door and then… founding a new church and returning to the pulpit.
Kevin Roose GQ Feb 2011 20min Permalink
A famed attorney begins a transformation away from being a man; and dies after a companion shoves her under an oncoming train.
Elizabeth Day The Guardian Jan 2011 20min Permalink
On a Duke student’s now infamous Powerpoint presentation of her sexual history; binge-drinking, post-feminism, and Mario Kart.
Caitlin Flanagan The Atlantic Jan 2011 20min Permalink
How Internet porn has altered the ways we think about, and engage in, sex.
Natasha Vargas-Cooper The Atlantic Jan 2011 15min Permalink
The cop says she nabbed an online sexual predator. He says he was just willing to chat whatever it took to get laid in real life. Their story, from both perspectives.
Mark Bowden Vanity Fair Dec 2009 35min Permalink
New technology has historically been a friend to the porn industry, first VHS, then online DVD sales. But free streaming sites like YouPorn have sent the establishment into a tailspin, and due to anonymous domain registration, they don’t even know who their competition is. Will the internet kill porn?
Claire Hoffman Portfolio Oct 2007 20min Permalink
Booker winner Howard Jacobson on the bumper crop of sex worker memoirs and what they say about our understanding of paid sex.
Howard Jacobson Prospect Apr 2008 10min Permalink
A profile of Canadian politician Jamie Lee Hamilton.
Michael Harris The Walrus Jun 2010 15min Permalink
The Great Recession’s impact on the legalized prostitution industry in Nevada: more hookers, fewer johns.
Michael Albo LA Weekly Sep 2010 20min Permalink
A 13 year old gets a webcam and starts doing dirty shows online, ending up running a smut business in Mexico with his deadbeat father.
Kurt Eichenwald New York Times Dec 2005 Permalink