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I sell fantasy for a living – Kate
Episode 9

I sell fantasy for a living – Kate

Good Girls Talk About Sex · Leah Carey

February 28, 201948m 38sExplicit

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Show Notes

Kate is a cisgender white woman in a monogamous heterosexual marriage who is 37 years old. Kate is a stripper in Portland, Oregon.

I met her one afternoon when I visited Sassy's with a friend of hers and she sat down to chat with us between sets.

The first thing I noticed about Kate was that even though I had just seen her dancing naked on a pole, she was one of the most articulate and intelligent women I'd met in a long time. She forced me to come face-to-face with my own judgments about sex workers.

  • The conversation in Kate's childhood home about sexuality
  • Why being the "pursuer" in a romantic relationship felt empowering for Kate as a teenager
  • How Kate got into dancing
  • The different degrees of sex work
  • Why creating a fantasy is the larger part of sex work
  • The different sexual proclivities of men from different cultures

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EPISODE CREDITS:

Host / Producer – Leah Carey (email) Audio Editor – Gretchen Kilby Administrative Support - Lara O'Connor, Maria Franco

Transcript creation – Jan Acielo Music – Nazar Rybak