Incredibly powerful assessment of how we value ourselves as humans in the context of sex, both physically and psychologically. I’m very excited to see you return to your roots because I discovered you through your advocacy. (Twat was thoroughly hilarious and gravitas!)
It should be mentioned that Showgirls was a Paul Verhoeven movie. It would have been impossible in the 1990s for an American director to put something like this together. Verhoeven practiced this sort of explicit and often gory moviemaking way before anyone else did in the 70s when he started his career in The Netherlands. Showgirls also has a gruesome rape scene that will make you really uncomfortable. The movie was too direct and too realistic for North American audiences but its ultimate failure was I think that the script wasn't all that good. But you are right, it maybe worthwhile seeing it again 30 years on and re-evaluate it.
Love this! I haven’t been a sex worker but have been in some pretty complicated situations. Vulnerability is hard for both parties. And often times people speak different languages. I’ll be vague. But expectations can sour really fast if you don’t provide what the other party thinks they were promised and vice versa.
In the mid-‘90s I worked overnight at a traffic broadcasting company in New York City. I drove out of the city at about 5:30am, and used to see the prostitutes outside the Lincoln Tunnel in the day’s first light. They had been there all night. Who knows how many men they serviced and were still standing in heels and thongs at 5:30. There were other pockets in the city, like the Hunt’s Point area of the Bronx, where trucks came in and out and the prostitutes serviced the truck drivers.
I wonder what happened to those women. Wonder how many of them are even alive. My heart used to sink when I saw them, knowing their shithead pimps were probably watching for cops in the shadows. Pimps still lurk around at Port Authority, looking for runaway boys and girls. Queens is also having a surge in prostitution from trafficked women.
Fair Girls is a good charity if you’re looking to donate to a cause that rescues girls and women from trafficking and helps them get on their feet:
I loathed Showgirls when I saw it for the first time. Then, years later, I saw a chunk of it playing on silent in a Tel Aviv bar (techno music was at full volume) and I thought, "This really isn't so bad." I think if you take out the terrible dialogue it's actually pretty watchable.
Your writing 💯
Incredibly powerful assessment of how we value ourselves as humans in the context of sex, both physically and psychologically. I’m very excited to see you return to your roots because I discovered you through your advocacy. (Twat was thoroughly hilarious and gravitas!)
It should be mentioned that Showgirls was a Paul Verhoeven movie. It would have been impossible in the 1990s for an American director to put something like this together. Verhoeven practiced this sort of explicit and often gory moviemaking way before anyone else did in the 70s when he started his career in The Netherlands. Showgirls also has a gruesome rape scene that will make you really uncomfortable. The movie was too direct and too realistic for North American audiences but its ultimate failure was I think that the script wasn't all that good. But you are right, it maybe worthwhile seeing it again 30 years on and re-evaluate it.
Love this! I haven’t been a sex worker but have been in some pretty complicated situations. Vulnerability is hard for both parties. And often times people speak different languages. I’ll be vague. But expectations can sour really fast if you don’t provide what the other party thinks they were promised and vice versa.
In the mid-‘90s I worked overnight at a traffic broadcasting company in New York City. I drove out of the city at about 5:30am, and used to see the prostitutes outside the Lincoln Tunnel in the day’s first light. They had been there all night. Who knows how many men they serviced and were still standing in heels and thongs at 5:30. There were other pockets in the city, like the Hunt’s Point area of the Bronx, where trucks came in and out and the prostitutes serviced the truck drivers.
I wonder what happened to those women. Wonder how many of them are even alive. My heart used to sink when I saw them, knowing their shithead pimps were probably watching for cops in the shadows. Pimps still lurk around at Port Authority, looking for runaway boys and girls. Queens is also having a surge in prostitution from trafficked women.
Fair Girls is a good charity if you’re looking to donate to a cause that rescues girls and women from trafficking and helps them get on their feet:
https://fairgirls.org/
I loathed Showgirls when I saw it for the first time. Then, years later, I saw a chunk of it playing on silent in a Tel Aviv bar (techno music was at full volume) and I thought, "This really isn't so bad." I think if you take out the terrible dialogue it's actually pretty watchable.
I loved Anora and now I love it even more through your writing. Bravo
Whiplashed by a spot on take on Anora after a bizarre left field intro highlighting that silly Showgirls movie. Loved it, but I could use a Motrin.