Sublime

My first book, Whip Smart, the memoir that I wrote after giving up my Very Important Novel, was, and I guess still is, a deeply unsexy book about sex and sex work. It’s also a feminist book about power and money and gender, and how, for a time in my early twenties, middle-aged, mostly married rich white men paid me to spit and urinate and slap and

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Self-loathing is a rampant virus in our contemporary culture — so prevalent as to have become the default setting in most of our minds. Seldom do we even stop to question whether it is normal or healthy to live within a consciousness that is constantly attacking, judging, and insulting itself. But to condemn yourself as unlovable is to swallow a te... See more