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Melissa Gira Grant

I'm a writer and freelance journalist covering sex, tech, and politics, in the streets and everywhere else (and currently living in New York). My latest book, Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work (Verso, 2014) challenges the myths about selling sex and those who perpetuate them. My reporting and commentary appears in The Nation, The New York Times, Wired, The Atlantic, Glamour, The Guardian, In These Times, The Washington Post, Dissent, Slate, Salon, and Valleywag, among other publications.

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Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work - Melissa Gira Grant

Best Sex Writing 2013: The State of Today's Sexual Culture - Jonathan Lethem, Rachel Kramer Bussel, Carol Queen, Neil Gabler, Patrick Califia, Lori Selke, Rob Boston, Julia Serano, Alex Morris, Melissa Gira Grant, Madison Young, Jon Pressick, Insiya Ansari, Dennis Romero, Kristen Hinman, Andy Isaacson, Rachel Swan, Seth Fischer, Con

Take This Book: A History of the People's Library at Occupy Wall Street - Melissa Gira Grant

Coming & Crying - Melissa Gira Grant, Meaghan O'Connell

Girl Crush: Women's Erotic Fantasies - Cheyenne Blue, Rachel Kramer Bussel, Delilah Devlin, Gina de Vries, Teresa Lamai, Lori Selke, Shanna Germain, R. Gay, Julia Peters, Geneva King, Vanessa Vaughn, Heidi Champa, Annabeth Leong, Angela Caperton, Evan Mora, Carrie Cannon, Kirsty Logan, Kris Adams, Melissa Gira

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Mae's Library rated it

5 years ago

text Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work

It's a very interesting look at the politics at play surrounding sex work. The book is quite short, 130+ pages divided into 10 chapters, and generally an easy read. Sometimes, however, sentences were quite convoluted and opaque. But regardless, I believe this to be a vital work if you're to have an ...

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Chris' Fish Place rated it

7 years ago

text Should read for a good take on sex workers

I'm glad I read this book. I'm not sure what my view about prostitution is. I do wish that Grant had more than ancedotal evidence ( and to be fair, she acknowledges her somewhat limited viewpoint). But Grant does have some very good points about how we should see sex workers and how shaming and poli...

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Oliviate rated it

11 years ago

text Thought-provoking and persuasive.

This is not everyone's idea of light reading, perhaps, but this short little book is electrifying and written with the kind of confidence that comes from strong conviction. So many opinions about sex work and sex workers are formed in the absence of the experience of actual sex workers: this book pr...

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Libromancer's Apprentice rated it

11 years ago

text [Book Review] Playing the Whore

Grant has written a treatise on sex work, workers, and the legal, social, and political issues surrounding the industry. Playing the Whore is about the people and the lives they live, not just the sex they sell, and the sociopolitical pressures they face as organizations who try to outlaw and "rede...

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La Crimson Femme rated it

11 years ago

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This is filled with opinions and editorials rather than fictional erotic stories. Although some of these are questionable in their facts. My review is going to be a bit different than usual. These are my own opinions based on these sexually charged articles. I'm dividing them up into how I felt ...

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