Category Archives: The Pink Ghetto

The Pink Ghetto: More Euphemisms We Don’t Like

(adorable Technorati graphic, perfect in this out-of-context)
Jamais Cascio of, Open The Future and Worldchanging, suggests in the comments, “for men who work in the sex culture field the damning term isn’t ’slut,’ but ‘pervert.‘”
Elizabeth Wood, of Sex and the Public Square, points to a discussion in the Wordpress user forums, where bloggers whose work is [...]

The Pink Ghetto: No Place Else To Go But Slut

(This is part two in our series, The Pink Ghetto, on writing and working sex on the Internet.)

When thinking sex online, porn operates as the great dividing line. As those who work sex online, that’s the frame we’re issued — are you porn, or not porn? Explicit, or non-explicit? Adult, or “family [...]