Sascha Cohen

historian and writer

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NPR • 1st December 2019

Review of Isa Mazzei's Cam Girl (NPR)

NPR Visuals • 11th December 2020

Review of Jennifer Worley's Neon Girls (NPR)

HuffPost • 14th June 2019

Strippers Are Turning to Old School Union Tactics to Fight for Fair Wages

Exotic dancers deal with harassment, discriminatory labor practices and club owners who find devious ways to limit their pay. Here’s a look inside the battle to unionize stripping.
Los Angeles Review of Books • 21st January 2019

Our Bodies, Our Business

Sex work has long been “the vault in which society stores some of its keenest fears and anxieties,” the authors explain. Instead of acknowledging the prostitute as a fellow worker with material needs, we have made her into an abstraction, a symbol of our collective emotions about power and womanhood. Across time, region, and culture, sex workers have been constructed as vectors of both literal disease and moral contamination.
The Daily Beast • 17th September 2018

The Rise and Fall of the American Breastaurant

“There’s an art to this,” restaurant manager Lisa (Regina Hall) tells a new hire at the fictional bar and grill called “Double Whammies” in the film Support the Girls. The perky young servers must be flirtatious but not indecent, assertive but accommodating. Double Whammies is a casual dining spot, “like Chiles or Applebees,” Lisa explains, but with sexier uniforms and, ostensibly, better tips.
Playboy • 19th December 2017

Why Is Homeland Security Raiding Escort Services?

In a cozy tavern in Glendale, California, a small group of sex workers, allies and advocates lit red candles and gathered to remember their dead.
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