A great group of sex writers and bloggers recently posed for a pin-up calendar to raise money for Sex Worker Awareness, a non-profit which works to improve understanding of sex work and advocates for sex worker rights. Needless to say, I support the fuck out of it, but it also makes me happy to see people who aren’t directly involved with sex work being so supportive of sex workers. In some circles, it’s a divisive issue, but here I’ve seen it embraced with intelligence and open-mindedness.

The pin-ups include Tess of Urban Gypsy, Lux Alptraum (founder of Boinkology and editor at Fleshbot), Audacia Ray (author of Naked on the Internet and co-founder of SWA), Twanna Hines of Funky Brown Chick, Jamye Waxman (author of Getting Off: A Girl’s Guide to Masturbation), Desiree of Baser Instincts, Rachel Kramer Bussell (editor of Spanked), Diva of Debauched Domestic Diva, sociologist and activist Elizabeth Wood of Sex and the Public Square, Riese of A Girl Called Automatic Win, Mariella of In Medias Res, and Sinclair of the excellent Sugarbutch Chronicles. You can read more about the pin-ups/bloggers here.

By the way, check out Jamye’s Wonder Woman outfit.  Love that.

The calendar is $20 and all proceeds go to SWA.  You can buy a copy here.

Better yet, go to the launch this Friday, November 14, from 6.30 to 9.30 at the White Rabbit (145 East Houston, NYC). Performing at the party will be Jezebel Express, Weirdee Girl, The Luvley Rae and Darlinda Just Darlinda, plus you’ll have the opportunity to meet the pin-ups in person. And there will be gift bags and a raffle with excellent prizes (like the SaSi and the Njoy Eleven) and, no doubt, a sexy and open-minded crowd.

For more information, see the NYC Sex Blogger Calendar website.