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Written by Jessie Sage originally Published in The Pittsburgh City Paper. Last year, I held a workshop about dirty talk in phone sex work at a club in Canada. Given that it was a space designed for public enactments of sexuality, I wasn’t surprised to find my presentation competing with jumbo TV screens playing pornography. An […]

Written by Jessie Sage, originally published in the Pittsburgh City Paper. Typically, when I tell folks that I am a phone sex operator, it’s met with confusion. “That still exists?” This even comes from those within the sex industry who believe that the internet, with its ubiquitous porn and live sex-camming, must have rendered the phone […]

Written by Jessie Sage, originally published in the Pittsburgh City Paper. I stand in front of the mirror touching up red lipstick and thickening winged eyeliner before work. My thighs extend out from a high-cut, black lace bodysuit. I bemoan their thickness and cellulite. In a moment of self-doubt, I question my desirability. Why did I […]

Like many women, I found Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony all too familiar, bringing up deeply buried events I’d experienced in the past. This is why I want to step back from the specifics of the allegations against Judge Brett Kavanaugh, and the partisan political implications of his confirmation hearings, to instead focus on why so […]