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"This movie has no business being so underrated. One of the least-known films in Spike Lee’s oeuvre, Girl 6 is a deep cut—and one of his more experimental works." tryst.link/blog/whor...

"How would you like to begin? What works best for you? How do you typically take it? Which do you prefer? What is it that you want? Would you like me to do it for you?" tryst.link/blog/hoes...

"The Available Now feature in the Tryst link Dashboard is a useful way to let clients know that you're accepting work. By turning on Available Now, not only can clients see you’re available on your thumbnail, but you’re given a little boost in search results." tryst.link/blog/trys...

"Things have changed rapidly for Tryst link and the wider community. The world has changed in ways that put pressure on the sex industry, meaning that sex workers, clients, and the people working on Tryst are all navigating a more stressful, complicated world." tryst.link/blog/comm...

'Our blog posts about Tryst have changed! Instead of blending product updates and community updates in one post, we've split them into two separate posts. This allows us to give more time and space to these important topics.' tryst.link/blog/trys...

"Once I’m in a session, I feel grounded in being present—my phone isn’t in my hand, I have a plan, I have tools to work with, and a blank canvas to create with for this specific time, this specific person, and this specific place." tryst.link/blog/a-tr...

"I’ve been the kind of person who has expressed themself through art for as long as I can remember, in any form I gained interest in: drawing, writing poetry, and stories." tryst.link/blog/hobb...

"Sex work was very present on his mind in some of his writing—understandably so, as sex work across genders was an open and public fact of African-American urban life in Harlem, New York..." @thepasteldomina.bsky.social on sex work in James Baldwin's writing. tryst.link/blog/sex-...

"Like many others, I always felt called to this sort of work. Like many before me, I’ve always been drawn to the whore in movies, stories, visual art, etc. I’ve always identified as a sacred slut." We take a Tryst with @marinamoonnyc.bsky.social tryst.link/blog/a-tr...

"Laws originally designed to target sex workers have historically always been later applied to all kinds of people, which is why we have always been canaries in the coal mine." tryst.link/blog/old-...

"I’m very open about what I do for a living, and try to set the tone from the beginning by making it clear that I’m comfortable talking about it." tryst.link/blog/what...

"Many people consider that you have to do something radical to transition, but that's not always the case." tryst.link/blog/tran...

"I take pleasure in spending time with my clients. I want everyone to feel special and lusted after. Everyone and every BODY deserves intimacy and pleasure. I like being able to fulfill that need as Talia." tryst.link/blog/a-tr...

"his journey toward independence and empowerment is often fraught with unique challenges, including financial exclusion, legal hurdles, and social stigma." tryst.link/blog/empo...

~ Public Service (Public Holiday) Announcement ~ Hello sweet community, Throughout April, Australia has a bunch of public holidays. This affects our wonderful Customer Support team, and may mean increased wait times from the 18th April while we work to make up lost time.

"Stripper Web first opened its website back in 2002, and operated for over 20 years online as a centralized hub for sex workers from across the globe to communicate with one another via classic early internet forums." tryst.link/blog/rest...

"My hands look old and the clients keep coming. When I smile you can see all the fine lines and crow's feet around my eyes from many, many years of joy and revelry. I’m starting to see through the lie that these things make me less beautiful." tryst.link/blog/coug...

~ Public Service (Public Holiday) Announcement ~ Hello sweet community, Throughout April, Australia has a bunch of public holidays. This affects our wonderful Customer Support team, and may mean increased wait times from the 18th April while we work to make up lost time.

"Shortbus is a movie about connection and disconnection with your sexuality, with queerness, with people, with life. It shows the beauty in the ugliness of humanity, of being depressed, obsessed, repressed, in love, alone, etc." tryst.link/blog/whor...

"I often see clients who are exploring their sexuality/gender, often very privately. It’s not something they feel comfortable to share with their lovers, partners, friends. I feel grateful to be with them on that journey, it’s an honour and it’s hot." tryst.link/blog/a-tr...

"SICK was created in 2019 by and for people with chronic illnesses and disabilities. With their voices front and centre, this beautifully designed magazine makes for immersive, illuminating and empathy-expanding reading – that is not always for the faint of heart." tryst.link/blog/scar...

"Married people don’t risk losing their bank account, their child custody, other jobs, or even going to prison and getting deported. Instead of holding onto the transactional aspect of marriage to validate sex work, we should start recognizing sex work as legitimate." tryst.link/blog/sorr...

"You can have the best promotion, the hottest body, or the most charming attitude, but if the quality of the videos you're trying to sell suck, people aren't going to come back for more..." tryst.link/blog/slut...

"I did not know Kathleen Hanna was a stripper before I listened to the audiobook of this memoir. Hanna speaks of stripping as ‘Sage’ to pay for college where she studied photography. Stripping was for Hanna a ‘highest return for smallest investment’ job." tryst.link/blog/whor...

"Now hotel rooms are my favorite workplace. I am a fleeting guest. I stay only an hour, a night, sometimes more, but never forever." tryst.link/blog/hoes...

"Video games have always been a vital part of my decompression time. As a girl with ADHD, gaming is the form of media that has been most effective at sucking me in and giving my brain the necessary stimulation to let me just have fun and decompress." tryst.link/blog/hobb...

Thanks to @thepasteldomina.bsky.social for this longform piece on the main whores of the bible.

Thanks to @thepasteldomina.bsky.social for this review.

*Sex workers are virtuosos of companionship, eroticism, and ecstacy. Sex work is regarded as an order of great masters, yet our guild welcomes any dabbler, where the collective courage of the human sensory experience is stewarded by these marvellous entrancers..." tryst.link/blog/hoes...

"Baker’s movies tend to hold a similar plotline around this type of character. The manic-pixie-wild-cussing-sex worker always has a violent, loud outburst scene that is central to the movie." @thepasteldomina.bsky.social on Sean Bakers sex worker saga. tryst.link/blog/whor...

"Unfortunately most people are not very educated about sex work and are unlikely to have a working knowledge of the number of queer men and non-binary people involved in it, so generalizations about gender are taken as fact." tryst.link/blog/gend...

"In the civilian world, a difficult coworker might email you incessantly, not meet their deadlines or produce sloppy work you have to redo. However, in the sex work industry a difficult coworker could put you in very real danger." tryst.link/blog/work...

"Sometimes I think about how many sharp edges the world has and how easy it is to get punctured but how lucky I am to have freaks ready with wire, string, lace, leather, zip ties, hardware, blood, and spit to close all the wounds back up." tryst.link/blog/hoes...

"My body is a canvas and my wardrobe is out of control. It can’t be contained by my closet. I like to make a scene and confuse the straight boys when I walk down Nebraska Ave." tryst.link/blog/a-tr...

"Trans sex workers are such a vibrant and vital part of the wider sex working community. Like many marginalised populations, trans providers make up a large part of our sex working community. " tryst.link/blog/tran...

"If you know anything about Sydney's old red light district, King's X (King’s Cross), you will likely know that Bada Bing was an infamous stripclub that actually existed on the main strip of the X, named after The Sopranos." tryst.link/blog/whor...

"I’ve mostly had sedentary hobbies. I’m a writer, a book reader. I like smoking bowls and watching British dramas. I’d never really known the satisfaction that can come from an active hobby, using my hands." tryst.link/blog/hobb...

"In June 2024, Kim Ye released an experimental short film entitled U up?. It was filmed on a Mac computer using the screen recorder function to capture multiple windows of static files, audio, and video clips..." tryst.link/blog/whor...

"Baker’s movies tend to hold a similar plotline around this type of character. The manic-pixie-wild-cussing-sex worker always has a violent, loud outburst scene that is central to the movie." tryst.link/blog/whor...

"When we’re put in the position of having to lie to those close to us because of whorephobia, it can be such a huge relief to talk to other sex workers that it all comes spilling out at once as soon as we find them." tryst.link/blog/why-...

'This book is transgressive to say the least. It tackles a lot of taboos that our industry is kinda more familiar with than the general public. If you would like an extensive list of trigger warnings I would hazard a guess that this book is probably not for you.' tryst.link/blog/whor...

"What I had to learn was more intrinsic. It was about having the self-confidence to walk into a room with a stranger and truly own the space—and own them. That kind of presence goes beyond putting on latex and swinging a flogger. It’s about cultivating authentic power..." tryst.link/blog/a-tr...

"The bar for sex worker representation is in hell, and one of the last places I expected to see it raised was in a show whose target audience is men who love male superheroes. And yet, The Penguin delivered." tryst.link/blog/whor...

"Talking about STI’s can be a touchy and taboo subject for most people. Many people don't really know how most STI’s are transmitted or how to avoid them. They think an STI is like a death sentence, when that couldn't be more far from the truth." tryst.link/blog/stis...