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The Truth About Those "Highest Paid Escort" Articles – As Told By 3 Top-of-Their-Game Companions

If an article’s headline begins with “you won’t believe…” or – worse – a dollar amount, you probably oughtn’t believe anything that comes next. And, sadly, it's almost all to do with websites trying to amp up the “wow factor” to get clicks and shares off the backs of sex workers.

Opinion

Economists Calculate Risk

Risk is a word that is loaded for marginalized communities, particularly ones in the sex industry: high-risk, risky behavior, at-risk. But a new podcast episode out by Planet Money details a new kind of baseline risk only sex workers can demonstrate.

Features

Slixa is Proud to Introduce the (First of Its Kind) Service Professionals Directory

The Slixa Service Professionals Directory is unlike anything we've made available before (or for that matter, even seen anywhere else!) and it will be exactly the jump-off that providers need to connect with reputable, industry-friendly photographers, web designers, and more.

Advice

Six Screening Tips for Providers

The internet is a wild, wonderful world – mostly. While it can be a robust resource for figuring out how to get work, network, and keep work, it can be challenging to funnel information about safety through a sieve, or to encounter a one-size-fits-all baseline of discretion...

Features

Take Your Ad Offline With Just the Click of a Button

We can think of any number of occasions when it might not be ideal to have your Slixa profile posted loud and proud. But until now there was no way to easily remove your profile from the site entirely. That's where "Hide My Profile" comes in.

Opinion

How To Keep Your Accounts From Getting Frozen in This Icy Time

As if providers don't have enough to worry about in this time of FOSTA/SESTA, now there's one more threat to their livelihood: a potential banking freeze. Here's a way to keep your money safer.

Features

CityXGuide VS Slixa

Here at Slixa we know it can be tough to choose the perfect site to showcase your unique offerings and wanted to take a minute to talk about what you can expect in contrast to platforms like CityXGuide. We’ve highlighted a few features we know are important to shed some light on why Slixa is...

Features

Start and Stop Slixa Ads On Your Schedule

We know how busy you are, and worrying about travel ads shouldn't take up even one unnecessary moment in your day. Rather than starting a Visiting Ad the day you announce your tour (or trying to remember to start it around your arrival), Slixa users can set a start date...

Opinion

Representation in Podcasts: The New Frontier

Podcasts are a beautiful format for narrative storytelling, which often leads to political action (because empathy is created when a listener or reader imagines themselves in the shoes of the character/situation)...

Opinion

Susan Sarandon and the Questionable Value of Celebrity Input

In May, Susan Sarandon tweeted this to the world: "Sex work is a job just like any other, but its criminalization exposes sex workers to discrimination, abuse & exploitation. ...decriminalization is the only way to implement safeguards to protect those in this industry." Oh.

Features

Giving Back Matters More Now Than Ever: A Letter From Slixa.com's CEO

We are (truly I, as the CEO of Slixa.com am) asking you to contribute any amount you can to help us open the Woodhull Sexual Freedom Summit up to as many community members as possible. We have many battles yet to fight and it is imperative we have informed supporters who know their rights.

Opinion

Where Have All the Fatal Attractions Gone? Sexpendables in a post-FOSTA/SESTA World

According to New York Times culture writers Wesley Morris and Jenna Wortham, sex in popular culture is notably absent: "Sure, there’s sex in film and TV," they write," but in recent history, there has been an absence of content that treats sex not as an aside, but as the main event."

Advice

Spring Cleaning Your Brand

We live in a beautiful world, with infinite possibilities for employment; whether you're a freelancer, a business-owner, or in a 9-5, there's room for everyone to give their work life a much-needed brand refresher. Let's talk about Spring Cleaning for your personal brand!

Interviews

Meet Kate D'Adamo: Rights Advocate + Roving Reporter

Slixa is excited to introduce a new weekly feature for the Slixa Blog, "Kate's Account," which will feature a first-person look at legal and political issues and news impacting the Service Provider community. Kate D'Adamo is just the woman to help us understand what it all means.

Features

Getting the Social Media Attention You Deserve

As Twitter has evolved their policies, particularly as they relate to content bans or even the mysterious and publicly denied shadowban, Slixa has been watching and deciding how best to alter the ways we engage in this space. Here are some tips for how best to engage with @slixa on social media:

Opinion

The Tricky Transition From Media 'Morality' to 'Exploitation' (or How A Conservative Christian Organization Yelled FOSTA Into Existance)

Anti-porn rhetoric has had a major influence on FOSTA/SESTA in that moralism has been the crux of savior-complex fueled stratagem for time eternal. Reductionist conflations of sex work and sex trafficking permeated public discourse, becoming a mainstream (read: SWERF) feminist torch to carry.

Interviews

Community Organization Spotlight: The Black Sex Worker Collective + Slixa's March Matchness Challenge!

For the month of March, any contributions made to either the Desiree Alliance or the Black Sex Worker Collective will be matched dollar-for-dollar by Slixa.com with no strings attached.

Interviews

Community Organization Spotlight: The Desiree Alliance + Slixa's March Matchness Challenge!

For the month of March, any contributions made to either the Desiree Alliance or the Black Sex Worker Collective will be matched dollar-for-dollar by Slixa.com with no strings attached.

Opinion

Kamala Harris: Decrim Queen

Her history is the very thing that we are holding her to, and we don't have any hope that she plans to evolve and change her policies around decriminalization should she be elected. She simply hasn't given us a reason to believe she will.

Interviews

Meet Andre Shakti: The Woman With (Some Of) The Answers

Slixa is proud to introduce "Ask Andre" where readers (of all races, genders, and affiliations) can submit their most personal sex, relationship, and professional questions to our new resident expert, Ms. Andre Shakti.

Opinion

In the Case of SWERF Feminism in Politics, History Repeats Itself

Presidential candidates like Harris aren’t going to differentiate between sex work & sex trafficking. And in an era where liberals are falling right-of-center in order to moderate the wiles of Trump’s tantrums, rocking the boat in order to save sex workers just straight up isn’t going to happen.

Advice

Tips (From the Professionals!) for Getting What You Want in Bed This Valentine's Day

When it comes to getting what you want in bed, communication is always the key. Lots of people suspect that whatever they like or want is too out there for their partner to provide or participate. But the truth is, most would love the...

Experience

Global Implications Of FOSTA

In the days following SESTA-FOSTA’s passage through Congress—before it had even been formally signed into law —sex workers tangibly felt its effect. While supporters of the law claimed to target sex traffickers, its text makes no effort to differentiate trafficking from consensual sex work.

Experience

Against FOSTA/SESTA: One Canary's Cry From Inside the Coal Mine

I am not special, nor am I an exception to any rule—the forces that govern my life and affect my personal agency are the same ones that affect others. Yes, I am a sex worker—and at the same time I am a daughter, a sister, a teacher, an immigrant, a partner, a pet-owner, an Internet user...

Experience

The Death Of The Dabbler and The Erasure Of Sex Work From The Common Internet

I am a full-on sex worker, but I started out as a dabbler, and for the first four years of my practice I was almost invisible. Aside from a few photos on my Fetlife profile (which read like a personal profile at the time) I was a ghost...

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