Hosted by Audacia Ray and David Henry Sterry
Happy Ending, 302 Broome Street between Forsyth and Eldridge, in New York City
Thursday, June 3. Doors at 7 pm, reading from 8-10
Stick around after the reading to dance and party with hos, hookers, and ne’er do wells!
21 and up – FREE

THIS MONTH: Featuring Surprise Guests from RentBoy.com!

15% of the bar goes to benefit HIPS – Helping Individual Prostitutes Survive

Our readers this month:

Spending over a decade in New York City has been far from mundane for Randi Newton.
Moving to Manhattan from Omaha, Nebraska- in 1998 to pursue an acting career.  Newton started by working as a live-in nanny, to trading up for a position at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, to managing for a for a prestigious liquor company, being laid off and eventually wandering into a gentlemen’s club where a year long waitressing position, turned into a stripping stint that parlayed into opening surprising media appearances and writing opportunities.  Featured as the cover story, April 2009, of the Sunday New York Post about women stripping in times of an economic crisis, Newton has also appeared internationally to speak about the recession and the gentlemen’s club industry.   In addition she has been featured in Radar Magazine, Penthouse Magazine (fully dressed) and such television programs such as; Inside Edition, The Insider, The TODAY Show, CBS This Morning, Entertainment Tonight.  She’s also appeared as a panelist multiple times on FOX News The Strategy Room, and appeared on The Gayle King Show/Oprah Radio, and went face to face with Bill O’Reilly on the controversial “The O’Reilly Factor”.  Newton has also appeared in such television programs such as various appearances on “Howard TV On Demand”, “The Sopranos”, “Nip/Tuck”, and films, “Mona Lisa Smile”, “Sean Lennon’s Friendly Fire”, and most recently the Darby Crash biopic, “What We Do is Secret”.
In addition, Randi is a columnist for one of the most respected trade publications in the adult nightclub industry, “Exotic Dancer Magazine”.  She attended the University of Nebraska at Omaha, on a scholarship provided from the Miss America Organization, and has more recently studied at The New School in New York City, The Groundlings in Los Angeles, and Upright Citizens Brigade in New York City.  She spends her spare time, reading, writing, playing poker, and enjoys karaoke.  She is currently working on her second memoir and working at Rick’s Cabaret’s flagship location in New York City.  Newton resides between New York and Los Angeles.

Cameryn Moore is a writer, comedian, sex educator, performer, and, oh yeah, a professional phone sex operator. Her one-woman play, Phone Whore, opens in Boston May 15-16, and will tour to 17 other cities in North America this summer and fall (including Brooklyn’s Brick Theatre November 5-6!). In Boston she is the host of f*ckbucket, a monthly talk show/sex-trivia night at the Savant Project, and regularly appears at the Naked Comedy Showcase, the Comedy Studio, and Good Vibrations. Catch more of her in NYC this weekend: June 4 at Ochi’s Lounge with the Back Room, and June 5 at her first NYC Naked Comedy Showcase. For tour dates, visit her at www.camerynmoore.com

Sarah Jenny is a community organizer, activist and visual artist. She is a co-founder and organizer of the NYC chapter of the Sex Workers Outreach Project (SWOP-NYC) and Sex Workers Action New York (SWANK). She has previously served on the board of directors of the Desiree Alliance Conference and as the New Media Director of $pread Magazine. Sarah Jenny is currently a masters candidate at New York University with a focus on mobile technology for public health. She is co-organizing the Sex Worker Cabaret at the Slipper Room on June 6^th and hopes you will attend.

Stephen Boyer will forever be in his early twenties fucking and getting fucked under the alias Dorian or Dorian Slay. Since the years are quickly stumbling away from his point of entry, Stephen has devoted his energies to writing, painting and performance. His work has been published by 2nd Floor Projects (San Francisco); Marjorie Wood Gallery (San Francisco); TRY zine; in the anthologies “Cool Thing: The Best New Gay Fiction from Young American Writers” and “Madder Love: Queer Men and the Precincts of Surrealism”; and a collection of poetry entitled “Ghosts” by Bent Boy Books came out this past January 1st, 2010. He has also shown work at Poet’s Theater, and has been involved in many a friends performance. Currently he is wrapping up a novel, producing a play and has an art show June 5th-6th between 12-7pm as part of the Bushwick Arts Festival with his friend Kevin Sheneberger at 301 Grove St. Brooklyn, New York. And check out his website www.minorprogression.com

‘Dominick’ is a founding participant of ‘Reading for Filth’, a monthly series founded by the late Dean Johnson. At the inaugural reading, Dominick came out about his 3-year stint as a full-time sex worker. In subsequent appearances, he’s honed his confessional voice, drawing on his sex worker diaries and correspondence to delve into a range of topics- his youth as a kept boy, his evolving persona as dominant guido-for-hire, the digital transformation of the sex industry, ass health- and of course, the johns, in all their splendor. Since retiring from sex work, Dominick walks among civilians in NYC’s real estate industry- where the art of the sell is supreme.

Mariko Passion, Educated Whore and Urban Geisha is a performance artist | activist | educator | whore revolutionary. She sings and rhymes her experiences and reality over beats and produces auto-documentary videos. She educates the community and fights for social justice issues related to sex workers rights in LA, across the U.S and the world. She has performed at the International AIDS conference Global Village stage in Mexico City, a conference that drew 20,000.  She tries to feature or open mic perform somewhere in her hometown of Los Angeles a few times month.  She is a singer, spoken word, visual and performance artist using various mediums to speak on the intense drive and passion of certain born to be hustlers living in a male privileged world.

About HIPS:

HIPS (Helping Individual Prostitutes Survive) was founded in 1993 by a coalition of service providers, advocates, and law enforcement officials as an outreach and referral service. HIPS mission is to assist female, male, and transgender individuals engaging in sex work in Washington, DC in leading healthy lives. Utilizing a harm reduction model, HIPS’ programs strive to address the impact that HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted infections, discrimination, poverty, violence and drug use have on the lives of individuals engaging in sex work. HIPS is a nationally recognized program that meets the needs sex workers and assists them in their efforts to eliminate the transmission of HIV, increase sexual health, and reduce violence and harm associated with sex work and drug use. HIPS programs serve an estimated 2,000  sex workers a year on the streets and in our drop-in center, providing a full spectrum of programs to address basic & immediate needs, long-term goal setting and life skills development.

Important information about changes to Sex Worker Literati!

Changes are coming to Sex Worker Literati – some really exciting ones!
As many of you know, in just under one year that Sex Worker Literati has been running at Happy Ending Lounge, we’ve had some amazing experiences. Since August 2009, we have featured more than 50 sex workers from around the country – and even some international guests – who have read, monologued, performed, and shimmied their ways into our hearts, minds, and naughty bits.  We’ve also built a fundraising component into the evening, donating a percentage of the bar income to sex worker organizations each month. But now, we’ve just grown too big to continue as we have…so we’re making some changes and we know you’ll be as excited about them as we are!

Audacia Ray will be continuing the Happy Ending tradition of a First Thursday night reading & performance series, under a different name: The Red Umbrella Diaries. The series will bring together current & former sex worker performers with the audiences that have come to love these story tellers’ particular takes on their lives, loves, and work. Audacia will continue to raise money for sex worker advocacy groups at each performance and produce videos of the performers. Learn more about Audacia’s upcoming themes, performers, and watch the latest videos at http://RedUmbrellaProject.com.

Starting this September, David Henry Sterry will be taking Sex Worker Literati uptown to Bowery Poetry Club at 308 Bowery! It will be a great chance for socializing with and listening to amazing performers, and hang out with other sexy people enjoying the usual fun and flirtatiousness that you’ve come to expect & love! Tentatively scheduled for the first Thursday nights, there are still details to be finalized, but not to worry – just check out http://hoshookercallgirlsrentboys.com for more information about Sex Worker Literati!

Hosted by Audacia Ray and David Henry Sterry
Happy Ending, 302 Broome Street between Forsyth and Eldridge, in New York City
Thursday, May 6. Doors open at 7 pm, reading from 8-10
Stick around after the reading to dance and party with hos, hookers, and ne’er do wells!
21 and up – FREE

15% of the bar goes to support Adult Industry Medical Health Foundation

Our readers this month:

Candida Royalle began her long and colorful career in sex work as a porn star before pioneering the genre of female-centric erotic films through her company, Femme Productions in 1984. Continuing to innovate in the area of women’s sexual pleasure she partnered with a Dutch industrial designer to create the groundbreaking Natural Contours line of sleek stylish vibrators. Looking to share all she’s learned through out her illustrious life and career she penned “How to Tell a Naked Man What to Do” (Simon & Schuster). She’s a founding board-member of Feminists for Free Expression (FFE) .

Guy Gonzales. Peepstar. Hustler. Notorious Nude Club Manager. Outlaw Artist and Writer. Warrior. From peddling firecrackers to live sex shows, legendary hardcore hustler Guy Gonzales was born in Manhattan of Asian-American ancestry. Despite the façade of a decent upbringing, he became enticed by the filthy streets. Flesh emporiums fueled his incentive; in 1982 Guy gravitated to Times Square, a reputed red-light district, and began as a cashier/mop-man in the adult peep shows. While swabbing pools of disgrace, he dated a Private Booth showgirl; subsequently they became a Love-Team, performing live sex acts on stage. On a mattress stained with bodily fluids, he penetrated even deeper into the inner sanctum of smut. Guy’s artwork, articles, and photo essays have been featured in Screw, Hustler, Swank, Vibe, the Village Voice, and Penthouse Forum. Featured in TimeOutNY as the leader of the Mortuary Squad, an elite task force that documents the underbelly; and the 40th Anniversary Issue of New York Magazine. A+E ‘Biography’ entitled ‘Times Square’ chronicled his unusual experiences, with interviews and illustrations. Exhibitions include  ‘Erotopath’ and ‘Viewer Discretion Advised’. In 2006 he exhibited at the Ayala Museum, Makati, the Philippines, with former President Fidel Ramos in attendance. A noir New Yorker, Guy continues to evoke the broken mirror ball on the fringe of a forgotten Times Square, as his autobiographical account PEEPMAN/DEUCE42 nears completion.

Jillian Lauren is the author of the memoir Some Girls: My Life in a Harem. She has an MFA from Antioch University and her writing has appeared in Vanity Fair, Flaunt Magazine, Pindeldyboz Magazine and Opium Magazine, among others. Her novel, Pretty, is scheduled to be released from Plume in January 2011. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and son. Her blog is regularly updated with notes about her life, her family, and her writing.

Aimee DeLong is a writer and performer, living in New York.  Her work has been published in such places as Cherry Bleeds, 3AM, Everyday Genius, Lit Chaos and Yellow Mama.  Aimee has giving readings for The Cherry Bleeds Literary Happy Hour and Lit Crawl in San Francisco.  She’s also the winner of the 2008 Famas Poetry Prize.  Recently, she appeared in the off-Broadway play, Go Go Killers.  If this is not a long enough list of vague accolades please visit her website at www.aimeedelong.com.

About Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation:

“A non-profit corporation created to care for the physical and emotional needs of sex workers and the people who work in the Adult Entertainment Industry. Through our HIV and STD testing and treatment, our counseling, and support-group programs, we are happy to be serving the sex worker community. Our goal is to provide health care for the body, mind, emotion, and spirit, as well as to take a leadership position in promoting safe and responsible sexual behavior, not only for the adult entertainment industry, but for everyone.”

Hosted by Audacia Ray and David Henry Sterry
Happy Ending, 302 Broome Street between Forsyth and Eldridge, in New York City
Thursday, April 1. Doors at 7 pm, reading from 8-10
Stick around after the reading to dance and party with hos, hookers, and ne’er do wells!
21 and up – FREE

15% of the bar goes to support the Young Women’s Empowerment Project

Our readers this month:

Vanessa del Rio is the all-time queen of the Latina sex stars, a lusty, exotic slice of mocha-skinned sensuality. Her name is synonymous with fiery, unrestrained sex at its rawest. Vanessa made her erotic debut in 1974’s ‘CHAIN DOLL,’ and was a top star right up until her retirement in 1986. Her enthusiasm for all kinds of wild sex made her one of the most bankable of 70’s and 80’s stars. Producers and fans knew that the name Vanessa del Rio meant sexual abandon, plain and simple. Vanessa del Rio appeared in nearly 100 films and videos during her 12-year career and never disappointed fans of lust-crazed Latin erotica. A member of the X-Rated Critics Organization’s Performers Hall of Fame, Vanessa is still one of the best-loved, most fondly remembered sex stars of all time, a bad girl with a feverish hunger for nasty, all-out sex. Vanessa del Rio has been mentioned in countless RAP Music Videos appeared on various talk shows and played herself on ABC’s N.Y.P.D Blue.

Barbara Carrellas is the author of Urban Tantra: Sacred Sex for the Twenty-First Century and Luxurious Loving: Tantric Inspirations for Passion and Pleasure. Barbara’s pioneering Urban Tantra® workshops were named best in New York City by TimeOut/New York magazine. Barbara delights in blurring the lines between sacred and profane, enlightened and perverted, pleasure and pain.  www.urbantantra.org

Stephen Elliott is the author of seven books including The Adderall Diaries which has been described as “genius” by both the San Francisco Chronicle and Vanity Fair. The Adderall Diaries was the best book of the year in Time Out New York, a best of 2009 in Kirkus Reviews, and one of 50 notable books in the San Francisco Chronicle. Elliott’s writing has been featured in Esquire, The New York Times,The Believer, GQ, Best American Non-Required Reading 2005 and 2007, Best American Erotica, and Best Sex Writing 2006. He is the editor of The Rumpus.

Raven Koch (AKA Raven Melissa, Raven Strega, Bunny Nose Best) is the bastard daughter of an orphan mother, and as such, always delights in finding the sweetness and humanity in liminal experience.  She was a co-founder of the Fierce Pussy Posse Cabaret Theater Company, Poison Apple Erotica Productions and Donna Con Donna.  She was also a co-founder of $pread Magazine.  Involved with Wow Café Theater Company for the last six years, her recent major works have included, Oedipus: A Love Story, and Love Spell, both of which were public ritual performances.  She has performed at Dixon Place, The Slipper Room, The Starlight Lounge and many other venues.  The original band slut of Hyper Gender Burlesque, witch, redneck and self-defense instructor, Raven can often be found stuffing an almond croissant into her mouth while running for the train or soaking in a hot bath while poring over cheap pulpy hoodoo pamphlets.

About the Young Womens Empowerment Project

The mission of the Young Women’s Empowerment Project is to offer safe, respectful, free-of-judgment spaces for girls and young women impacted by the sex trade and street economies to recognize their goals, dreams and desires. Young Women’s Empowerment project is run by girls and women with life experience in the sex trade and street economies. They are a youth leadership organization grounded in harm reduction and social justice organizing by and for girls and young women (ages 12-23) impacted by the sex trade and street economies.

“…Makes you wonder whenever you meet up with one of these couples at some fundraiser reception. And the flip side is that you never know when someone you meet has worked in the sex industry in some capacity.

Oh, sex workers walk among us! They’re our moms and daughters and aunts and uncles. They’re everywhere.

Hey, the other day my wife finds out that a college student she knows has her own page with an escort service that once employed Ashley Dupre, of Eliot Spitzer scandal fame.

Really! Well, that proves my point. There’s the stereotype of the woman who’s working her way toward getting her Masters, her Ph.D. Think about that next time you see a doctor. Once you look into it, you see just how much of mainstream society is buying or selling something in this world.

Well, you haven’t been shy about your own experiences in the industry.

I’ve written two memoirs from those experiences, Chicken and Master of Ceremonies. My next one will be Sports, Sex and Show Business. I had my own show business career for a time, you know; I was on The Fresh Prince for a couple of episodes, but I got tired of the acting world. I didn’t want to be second banana, didn’t want to be ‘Buddy #3′ anymore.

Well, if the highlight of your career is a supporting part on a sitcom, it kind of dooms you to be Larry from THREE’S COMPANY for life. You can’t get hired for anything else in Hollywood, but you can always star in LAST OF THE RED HOT LOVERS at Bucks County Playhouse.

Exactly! I just felt like a cog in a machine that I inherently hated. You know, I was already a troubled person back then, and things just came to a head — my hypnotherapist that I was seeing suggested that I write about my life, and that’s how I transitioned into being an author.

Not that being a writer is any more respectable than being Larry from THREE’S COMPANY.

Oh, the writer is way down on the pole from what gets up there on the screen. Everything they always said about writers in Hollywood is true — the writer has no power, still. You’re just a hired hand that can be fired at will…”

You can read the rest of the article at the Red Bank Orbit website.

Hosted by Audacia Ray and David Henry Sterry
Happy Ending, 302 Broome Street between Forsyth and Eldridge, in New York City
Thursday, March 4. Doors at 7 pm, reading from 8-10
Stick around after the reading to dance and party with hos, hookers, and ne’er do wells!
21 and up – FREE

15% of the bar goes to support Project SAFE

Our readers this month:

Gerry Visco is illegally blonde. A writer, performer, photographer, fashionista, and radio show host on WKCR FM, she regularly covers parties, events,  and the arts for New York Press in a weekly column and has also published stories and photographs in The Village Voice, Try State Magazine, birdsong, Gawker, the New York Sun, New York Magazine, Fit Yoga, Beyond Race, New York Blade Gay City News, $pread Magazine,  and other publications in print and online. She’s shown her photographs at Gallery U in Montclair, New Jersey, Envoy Gallery, and Artflux. She’s currently writing a tell-all memoir about her colorful life as muse, FIT student, actor, fag hag, rent girl, and disco diva in the gritty glamorous world of New York City during the 1970s and 1980s. Her latest project is Gerrification, a global effort designed to bring joy and beauty to America and the world. Everyone needs a makeover. Far better than Paxil or Prozac, dressing like Gerry will improve your mood and your life just by being photographed donning her signature platinum wig, cat-eye glasses, and a spangly outfit.

N is an multi-form, multi-media artist who is a jill of all trades. As an award winning burlesque performer, she has traveled throughout the country to bring her queer, schizophrenic performance that will shock you and most importantly leave you thinking, which has earned her the title as “The NC17 Of Burlesque”. In addition to co-producing her hit burlesque show HyperGender Burlesque in NYC, she is a videographer, professional singer, makeup artist, model and now sex blogger. She writes for the burlesque/sex themed blog The Vagina Adventures which are stories from a queer switch who is all about her vagina, and the women and things that go in them. Read more about her at www.thevaginaadventures.com, www.hypergender.com and www.nc17ofburlesque.com.

Anne Hanavan moved to NYC in 1985.  She started off stripping at the Pussy Cat Lounge, did a few stints in some Brothels, and because of  major dysfunction brought on by a huge heroin habit, she hit the strolls of the lower east side and stayed there for just under a decade.  After kicking the habit 11 years ago Anne started making experimental sexually explicit videos were the artist aggressively confronts her past.  Hanavan continues to take steps towards self absolution by writing were she takes the reader inside her head to see, from her perspective,  experiences of  street walking, tricking, rape, robberies, jail, and the many people she interacted with along the way.

Melissa Febos is the author of the memoir WHIP SMART (St. Martin’s Press). Her writing has been featured in The Southeast Review, Redivider, The Rambler, Storyscape Journal, Bitch Magazine, and Smut Magazine, among others.  She co-curates and hosts the Mixer Reading and Music Series at Cake Shop, teaches at Purchase College, The Gotham Writers’ Workshop, and NYU, and holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College.  She lives in Brooklyn. More information about her work and projects can be found at melissafebos.com.

About Project SAFE

Project SAFE’s mission is to promote human rights-based public health among women working in prostitution on the street in Philadelphia. SAFE is an organization dedicated to ensuring the health, safety and survival of women on the street by providing advocacy, education and support using a harm reduction model. SAFE seeks to reduce the spread of HIV, Hepatitis C and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) among working women, promote health and safety by arming women with relevant information and resources, and connect women to programs and services which are appropriate to their needs and interests. We believe in every woman’s right to health and well-being as well as in their competency to protect and help themselves, their loved ones and their communities. Our long-term vision for social justice includes creating a network of and for women who participate in the sex industry that promotes self-advocacy concerning health, legal rights, and public policy.

“…And so, for the following school year, David Henry Sterry worked as a ‘chicken’, a teenage prostitute who was hired out to rich Los Angeles women for $100 plus an hour. His experience at the hands of the steak guy compelled him to insist he have sex only with women, and unlike most gigolos, he was young and good-looking enough to satisfy his pimps on this basis (although towards the end of his career; he did take the occasional ‘non-sex’ job with men, usually freaky types who wanted him to beat them up). Armed with a pager supplied by his ‘employment counsellor’, he punctuated lectures, sports and college dating with agency ‘tricks’, servicing some of the wealthiest women in California. Ironically, almost thirty years later, Los Angeles seems set to make Sterry rich again, with solicitations this time coming from Hollywood’s other big money trade. Now in his early forties, Sterry has written a memoir of his year in the sex business – Chicken: Love For Sale On The Streets Of Hollywood – and film studios are battling for the rights to his story. Published this month by Canongate in the UK, Chicken is a funny, illuminating and disturbing record of the high-rent lifestyle, a tale which belies society’s often one-dimensional attitude towards male prostitution. Its greatest strength is in showing how Sterry’s attitude to his career was (and is) painfully ambiguous – sometimes he thought he was the luckiest 17-year-old in the world, getting paid to have sex with older women, while at others he sensed he was nothing more than a shamefully exploited teenager. More often than not, he was both at the same time…

What kind of things did your clients require from you?
About half the women wanted very specific, fetishistic things. One wanted me to crawl under the covers and service her orally while she never made a sound or moved a muscle – it was like she wanted to reproduce something that had happened in her early life. And then the other half didn’t even seem to want sex – they wanted to talk about their miserable husbands and terrible kids. Most times they wanted me naked, and I think that says a lot about the power dynamic between the sexes in our culture – they wanted to pay a boy to take his clothes off while they remained fully dressed. These were all rich, powerful women who lived in mansions and drove huge automobiles, but they still felt powerless in life and sexually dominated by men. So they wanted to order someone around.

Were they mostly ‘frustrated middle-aged’ types?
I’d guess the youngest was about 30, and then I did have a grandma who’d never had anyone go down on her in eighty years! Someone gave me to her as a present. Everyone always says that must have been gross, but actually I felt honoured, and she was such a sweet, lovely person.

Were you ever unable to get it up for a client?
I always managed to perform, though I can’t say my heart was always in it. But then you’re not paid for your heart, you’re paid for your body. There were many times when I faltered and drooped, but I had this mechanism where I would activate this voice in my head that I called the ‘loverstudguy’. It was like one of those cheesy, corny soundtracks to bad porno with this voice going: (adopts Barry White style growl) ‘Ooh, yeah, baby, you love it, don’t you baby’. That’d make me feel like this sexy guy who could perform.

What did the job teach you about female sexuality?
I was once hired by a hippy chick who taught me how to do tantric sex (one of the greatest jobs I ever had in my life!), and she gave me such a valuable lesson. She said, ‘If you can make a woman’s pleasure your top priority and figure out what makes the woman in front of you happy sexually, then that woman will do anything for you’. They’re just so fucking grateful, because they get so little of it in life. After that, they’re like: ‘You want me to put on the Scuba outfit? Well, OK, honey.’…”

To read the full interview, you can visit the Lolita Mags Website (please be warned, there are numerous explicit ads and graphics, so don’t click from work!).

Hosted by Audacia Ray and David Henry Sterry
Happy Ending, 302 Broome Street between Forsyth and Eldridge, in New York City
Thursday, February 4. Doors at 7 pm, reading from 8-10
Stick around after the reading to dance and party with hos, hookers, and ne’er do wells!
21 and up – FREE

15% of the bar goes to support the Sylvia Rivera Law Project

Our performers this month:

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Alex Kinney is an old whore who has prostituted himself in the Ivy League, America’s regional theaters, in the Golden Hills of Hollywood, one cold Christmas in Dublin, and more lengthily, the South of the Slot in San Francisco.  Yes, Virginia, there really was a Golden Age of sexuality in San Francisco, and some of us were even getting paid for it.  Actually, a LOT of us were getting paid for it, right, David??  The stuff you get me into, jeez….  Alex’s most recent play, Holy Hell, was developed at The Actors Studio.

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Nica Noelle is an adult film actress, writer and director. She conceptualized and created Sweetheart Video and Sweet Sinner Films with Jon Blitt of Mile High Media, and was recently hailed by Nightline ABC as the top female adult film director. Nica has been a published writer for many years, and her work has appeared in numerous national magazines and websites. Aside from her continuing work in adult films, Nica is also an avid science and nature writer, and she is currently writing a book about urban wildlife and the relationship between humans and backyard animals.

Dane Cross is a performer in the adult entertainment industry who won Best Male Newcomer at the 2010 AVN Awards. Prior to entering the industry he went to film school and worked in photojournalism. He is 26, and enjoys traveling as much as possible. Currently he’s working on a travel show pilot on youth hostels that he created.

Hosted by Audacia Ray and David Henry Sterry
Happy Ending, 302 Broome Street between Forsyth and Eldridge, in New York City
Thursday, January 7. Doors at 7 pm, reading from 8-10
Stick around after the reading to dance and party with hos, hookers, and ne’er do wells!
21 and up – FREE

Our readers this month:

In order to fund her Ph.D. habit, Chelsea G. Summers worked most of the go-go ’90s as a stripper. Later, she found herself uninspired to write her doctoral dissertation and thus she began writing her award-winning blog, pretty dumb things, in March 2005. Since then,
Chelsea’s work has appeared in magazines like GQ and Penthouse and in multiple anthologies. She has been interviewed by the legendary Susie Bright for her Audible.com show “In Bed With Susie Bright,” and her work has been featured in fine online publications such as Filthy Gorgeous Things.com. Chelsea is currently working on any number of projects, when she isn’t suffering from paralyzing crises of confidence. Chelsea lives and sometimes writes in glamorous New York City.

Jennifer Blowdryer was delighted to meet other people with funny names when she moved to NYC in 1985. Spider Webb and Annie Sprinkle introduced her to the mutual exploitation hack erotica circuit, and she proudly launched Smut Fests at a lap dancing parlour in 1988. Read more of her stuff: http://86edstories.com.

Damien Decker’s writing has appeared in $pread magazine and the anthology Unhoused Voices. He has been featured on The Daily Beast and is currently working on a memoir. Damien was born in Zambia but moved as a young child to Scandinavia to become one of the first black people in northern Europe. He recived his degree in USA and is a former college, semi-pro, and national team athlete.  Damien is a multilingual jack-of-all-trades who speaks fluent Swedish, Norwegian, English, plus enough French to not starve when in Paris and enough Swahili to know when mother was angry. He currently resides in New York.

Jodi Sh. Doff, aka Scarlett Fever, has written for BUST, Penthouse, Playgirl, Tear, Cosmopolitan; been included in Best American Erotica ‘95, Bearing Life, Between the Sheets & The Bust Guide to a New Girl Order. She’s one of the Three Naked Ladies, a weekly online series taking a behind the scenes peek at stripping then & now. There’s a
memoir of her ten years in pre-Disney Times Square topless business in the works.

Zoe Hansen, by Audacia Ray, on Flickr

Zoe Hansen came to New York as a runaway teen in 1984, with two
hundred dollars and a heroin habit. She lived in the Lower East Side
when burnt out buildings were the norm and everyone went to Save The
Robots and Danceteria. She entered the sex industry at 17 years old,&
went on to become a phone girl, street ho, call girl, brothel worker
and eventually successful madam. She continues to live in the East
Village with her husband & child, where she is working on her memoir
‘My American Dream ~ Going Down in Gotham’.

If you’re a current or former sex worker, or you have stories about the sex industry, please consider joining us for an evening as a performer!. The event is held on the first Thursday of each month at the Happy Ending bar in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, and is co-hosted by Audacia Ray and David Henry Sterry. While we cannot pay performers, we will shower you with gratitude, offer you a place to sell your books / zines / CD’s, and let you have a drink on us.

Our upcoming themes are:

January 7 - My First Time
February 4 - Love and Pain
March 4 – Show & Tell: My Favorite Outfit
April 1 - Goddesses, Sinners, and Saviors
May 6 – Embarrassing Things I’ve Done for Money
June 3 – Coming Out & Passing
July 1 - The Craziest Ho I Ever Did Know
August 5 – Why Being a Whore Sucks, and/or Why It’s Great
September 2 – Tricks, Johns, Clients, and Sir Save-A-Hos
October 7 – Healers and Whores
November 4 – Dicks, Cops, & the Long Arm of the Law
December 2 – Family Affairs

Want to see what other performers have done? Check out our blip.tv channel for ideas and inspiration. Interested in participating? Email host@hoshookerscallgirlsrentboys.com with your name, your website, and/or any samples of your work! We especially encourage newer writers and untested performers to inquire – the themes that we’ve developed are intended to inspire sex workers to tell their stories, big or small.