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Resources for Providers Needing Emergency Help (and Where to Donate, If You Can)

As we've already shared, this community will and already has been uniquely impacted by COVID-19. This is just a small collection of funding campaigns and contact links.

News

Slixa's Response to COVID19 and Our Commitment to Advertisers

Your wellbeing is important to us, and we are committed to being responsive to your needs as the global situation evolves. These are some exceptionally trying times and we all have concerns regarding COVID19 and the ways it could (or already may) be impacting your personal health and your business.

Interviews

NDP's Laurel Collins Talks With Slixa About MP Arnold Viersen's Parliamentary Stunt to Shame Both Her And Canadian Sex Workers

"I have spoken at length with sex workers I know," stated Collins, in an interview with Slixa.com, "about their life experiences, and the damage that stigma does. It increases violence and it increases risk, and the laws of Canada, currently, really make their lives more dangerous." She's not wrong.

Features

Eros VS Slixa Cost Comparison (Plus Slixa's Record-Breaking January)

This January, Slixa.com hit a new high with with 7,645,000 total pageviews worldwide. Users are reporting increased views to their profiles, more traffic to their personal websites. We're ecstatic to know that Slixa is consistently providing exactly what our customers need to stay successful.

Features

Slixa's Unique BDSM Professional Badge

One of the most difficult things to overcome for anyone advertising any sort of product or service is the question of legitimacy. How do you convince potential customers that your thing is the

Law

Vermont Is Tapping More Than Just Maple: Decriminalization On The Bill For 2020 Session

With some of the legislation Vermont's proposed in years past, it should come as no shock that they're among the first to propose decriminalizing prostitution. However, the state's radical-seeming legislation doesn't just extend to social issues...

Guides

The Best Escort Blogs of 2019

We sent an email asking for suggestions about the best escort/sex worker/BDSM pro blogs, and were overwhelmed with the response. We've gathered the best of the best here and tried to provide a tiny taste of what readers can expect. Without further ado: Slixa's Picks for the Best Escort Blogs of 2019

Features

Sort Your Way to the Top of Search Results: Slixa Introduces Advanced Filters and Options

The one feature site viewers request more than any other is the ability to sort and filter advertisers by specific criteria. Since #TeamSlixa is growing faster than ever, we knew we couldn't wait a moment longer to introduce tools to help viewers connect with the companion of their dreams.

Opinion

Bye Girl Bye: Kamala Harris is Gone (and Won't Be Missed)

The reasons for her resignation appear to center around lacking a concentrated platform and her stance as cop-turned-politician. From the LA Times: "After an initially dazzling debut, the charismatic former prosecutor had fallen hard from the top tier of Democratic candidates in recent months."

Law

Ohio Concocts Dumb and Unoriginal New Plan to Hurt Sex Workers and Clients

Aside from the regular reasons Nordic Model is toxic and harmful, this iteration impedes the ability of workers to hire protection. Any and all associated persons could come under the same public scrutiny including those who solicit services, yes, but also those who do business with sex workers.

Advice

Why You Should (And How To) Support Sex Workers This Holiday Season

The holidays are coming up, and with them the tried and true tradition of donating to favorite nonprofits. This is typically the most important fundraising period for said foundations. But, it's unlikely the list of the 4,500 most popular charities includes ones that aid and assist sex workers...

Features

New, From Slixa: Perfect Twitter Previews, Every Time

If you've ever shared your Slixa profile on Twitter (or Telegram, or WhatsApp, or iMessage), it's possible you didn't love the way your link preview looked! But we've cooked up something at Slixa HQ that allows you to make those previews juuuuuuust right, and even update it as often as you want!

Features

Slixa Sponsors SWOP USA's December 17th Mini Grants (And How You Can Apply for One)

It should come as no surprise by now that Slixa is deeply invested in the ongoing advocacy and assistance efforts of sex worker-focused organizations worldwide. So when approached to contribute to events around the International Day To End Violence Against Sex Workers possible, it was a no-brainer.

Advice

Making It Mandatory: Self-Care For Sex Workers

It's time to acknowledge that not only is sex work labor that demands commensurate self care, but also that said labor is embodied. The term 'self-care' has been so much a part of the zeitgeist that it's almost a tired expression. So why is it not part of the conversation when it comes to sex work?

Advice

Worth Repeating: Arabelle Raphael's "How To Treat an Escort"

Last year VICE worked with internationally renowned pornstar and escort Arabelle Raphael on a breathtakingly honest and real video titled "How to Treat Escorts, According to an Escort." The result was pure magic.

Opinion

The Mainstreaming of "Kink"

What "50 Shades" does is create a reduced, commodified, and wholly saleable product purporting to be kink that can be manipulated to a one-size-fits-all template of BDSM; the reductionism of kink to a product makes a faded photocopy of the experience of it.

Sex

Jade Jayden's 10 Most Unbelievable Instagram Photos That Prove She's Just Like the Rest of Us

There's nobody who lightens our social media feeds quite like Tampa's Jade Jayden! Her Instagram is a marvel of how-tf-is-she-getting-away-with-that magic. Jade's famous 34DDD's are front and center, and with a pair of blessings like those, it's no wonder she's racking up the likes left and right.

Features

G'Day Sydney and Melbourne

We've been doing some pretty intensive research here at Slixa HQ about Australia, and have been consistently blown away by the caliber of pro we've come to associate with the land down under. That's why we're so excited to bring Slixa's game-changing approach to these incredible Aussie providers.

Features

Single Day Ads: Flexible and Affordable

Advertising costs can add up quickly, and if you're new to a site, advertise infrequently, or are just starting out, it can seem daunting to invest lots on promotion right out of the gate. That's why Slixa has created new Daily Ads, as the perfect accessory to our existing range of placements.

Advice

How to Tell Your Friends What You Do for a Living

People stay in the sex work closet for all kinds of reasons. However, if you've recently decided to out yourself as a service provider: welcome! We realize that there aren't a whole lot of How To guides for sex workers who are looking to tell their friends about their carers, so here's a start.

Experience

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.

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