I’m in Prague right now, struggling to learn a few basic terms like “please” and “thank you” and “I really need some coffee” and failing. I think one of the books I brought with me said that Czech is one of the most phonetic languages, which is great, but I’m hung up on the [...]

Since I’m pressed for time and since American Apparel’s sexy sexed-up ads are a revived topic of conversation here and elsewhere, I’m going to leave you with my favorite AA ad, which can be found on the back of S Magazine:

My general feeling is that all ads use sex to sell. AA just does it [...]

Whoredom, whoredom, everywhere. Sawyer’s interviewing Dupre, McLennan just released a book, Quan’s got a series coming out, Showtime’s sniffing around for a reality show. I also just read the line, “Sawyer’s ongoing and extensive investigation of prostitution” and realized that she was only just getting started with her first broad-stroked swing at American hookerdom. I’m [...]

We went for a road trip over the weekend as a kind of pre-election release. It was interesting watching the regional politics shift in the signs posted on the front lawns. Just outside New York, we saw plenty of Obama but as we traveled northward, it was increasingly McCain country. Eventually, we ended up north [...]

So I made the move to debauchette.com.
I’m still tweaking the template and I’m not 100% happy with it, but for me, it’s an improvement. It gives me a lot more flexibility, and it lets me post bits and notes on what we (Kasia and I) are working on for FGT in an area called “asides” [...]

I desperately need to clean house, clear out old history, bad memories and assorted detritus.  Used clothing.  I’m also in the midst of moving this blog to a new location with, I think, a new template (same-ish domain). As I’m preparing to do that, I’m going through the hundreds of drafts I never posted, either [...]

Sunday morning, I was walking through Williamsburg when I saw a book lying in one of those patches of dirt that pass for a bit of urban greenery. From a distance, it looked like a bible or a copy of the DSM-IV, maybe because it was thick and hardcover, but when I got closer, I [...]

I just read this: A man should always give a woman an orgasm before he lets her please him. Nice sentiment, but it bothers the hell out of me.
There are plenty of things about that sentence that make me uncomfortable, but I’m especially hung up on this word “give.”  I don’t think orgasms can be [...]

I’m still getting calls from clients, several of whom I haven’t heard from in over a year.  I don’t know what it is.  Maybe the economy.  Maybe the time of year.  Maybe they figured out that I’m ‘debauchette’ and they’re just feeling me out.  Most of them just want to talk, about their lives, about [...]

It’s a bad time to be an high-paid/over-paid prostitute in New York.  I think I said that last year when the future of high-paid whoredom was a recurring topic of conversation (”something’s going to break,” a client used to say) and I think I said that again this spring when the Spitzer frenzy set off [...]