Podcast appearances and mentions of maggie mcneill

NSP #65 we spoke with Maggie McNeill about the politics of sex work, censorship, science fiction, and libertarianism. Maggie was a librarian in suburban New Orleans, but after an acrimonious divorce she took up sex work; from 1997 to 2006 she worked first as a stripper, then as a call girl and madam. She eventually married her favorite client and retired to a ranch in Oklahoma, but returned to escorting part-time in 2010 and full-time in 2015 after another divorce (this time amicable) and a move to Seattle. She's been a sex worker rights activist since 2004, and since 2010 has written “The Honest Courtesan”, a daily blog which discusses sex work, politics, anarchism, philosophy and other topics. She has also published articles in venues such as Reason and the Washington Post; given innumerable lectures, talks, radio & video interviews; and is frequently consulted by academics and journalists as an expert on sex work. Links https://bsky.app/profile/maggiemcneill.bsky.social https://maggiemcneill.com/ 00:06:19 Critique of Life Extension 00:09:55 Science Fiction 00:30:53 Ayn Rand 00:35:10 Depictions of Sex Workers in Film 00:49:17 What is Sex Work? 01:06:16 Freelancing 01:13:09 Some History 01:19:25 Trumpists and Satanic Panic 01:29:46 Decriminalization of Sex Work 01:40:48 Rapist Cops 01:51:09 Nordic Model 01:58:38 Youth Liberation and Sex Work 02:07:02 Running a Business 02:13:42 The Politics of Pleasure 02:30:07 The "Libertarian" Perspective 02:41:20 Souls and Crusades 03:00:13 Lightning Round 03:13:08 Outro Thanks for listening! Please like, comment, subscribe, and share! --- If you'd like to see more anarchist and anti-authoritarian interviews, please consider supporting this project financially by becoming a patron at www.patreon.com/nonserviammedia Follow Non Serviam Media Collective on: Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/nonserviammedia.bsky.social Mastodon https://kolektiva.social/@nonserviammedia As well as Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and X/Twitter. Connect with Lucy Steigerwald via: https://mastodon.social/@LucyStag https://bsky.app/profile/lucystag.bsky.social https://x.com/LucyStag https://lucysteigerwald.substack.com/

Join us as we sit down with Maggie McNeill at the 2016 Exploring Anarchism conference and get her thoughts on The War On Whres. Maggie is a self a self-described "overeducated, loud-mouthed wh*re" and writes at the popular blog The Honest Courtesan in "addition to the usual harlotry". You can read Maggie's Blog at https://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com We suggest you start with on her about page: https://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/about/ Maggie also has a great page of facts and figures you can find here: https://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2013/10/08/handy-figures-revisited/ And she has a resources page with a "plethora of studies and other materials": https://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/resources/ Maggie in a Cato Unbound Online Debate: https://www.cato-unbound.org/issues/december-2013/perverse-incentives-sex-work-law A Video interview with Reason TV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2fCPvuoHx0 You can find what Maggie has written at Reason here: http://reason.com/people/maggie-mcneill/all Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/03/27/lies-damned-lies-and-sex-work-statistics/

"The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune." – Amelia Earhart Though she isn't a professional therapist, Maggie McNeill's decades of studying human sexuality from very close up has given her a remarkable degree of insight into sexuality, relationships, and many other related topics; people have therefore long sought out her advice on such topics.Maggie McNeill was a librarian in suburban New Orleans, but after divorce economic necessity spurred her to take up sex work; from 1997 to 2006 she worked first as a stripper, then as a call girl and madam. She eventually married her favorite client, retired, and moved to a ranch in the rural Upper South. There she writes a daily blog called “The Honest Courtesan” which examines the realities, myths, history, lore, science, philosophy, art, and every other aspect of prostitution; she also reports sex work news, critiques the way her profession is treated in the media and by governments, and is frequently consulted by academics and journalists as an expert on the subject. "The Honest Courtesan" is quite possibly the largest single-author blog on the internet, containing over 3500 essays written over the past decade. You can find her book "Ask Maggie" and its subsequent volumes on amazon, and please be sure to follow her on twitter.

"The whorearchy is the hierarchal system by which sex workers too often order themselves from “elite” to “inferior.” The woman who walks the streets is always at the bottom of this hierarchy. Who's on top, though, is contested. White, “high-class” escorts like myself often see ourselves at the apex of this hierarchy. But wait, it's the sugar babies, who have relationships with their sugar daddies and don't charge an hourly rate — they're at the top of the heap. Hold up — phone-sex operators don't even have to have sex to make money, so they're the “best.” But no, cam girls don't meet up with their clients either but earn even more money than phone-sex operators — so they're at the head of the pack. “The whorearchy is arranged according to intimacy of contact with clients and police,” writes Belle Knox, a porn star and sex-work advocate, in Jezebel. “The closer to both you are, the closer you are to the bottom.” This is why the streetwalker is always on the lower rungs of this hierarchy and sex workers like cam girls and phone-sex operators often see themselves as being at the top. (Phone sex and cam work are legal and don't require physical contact with the client.) However, I've met quite a few dominatrixes who believe they're at the pinnacle of this pyramid. Instead of pleasing men, they torture and humiliate them, and still earn a lot of money for the service. They're “top dog.” So you can see why this is a problem. The whorearchy is entirely arbitrary. Maggie McNeill, an escort, author, and sex-work advocate, jokes that while all sex workers agree that the whorearchy exists, “nobody agrees on anything about that system.” Besides, this hierarchical way of viewing sex work presumes that a sex worker's job is fixed. A stripper never does escort work and a streetwalker never works for an agency. his simply is not the case. Rachel Moran, the author of Paid For, a memoir about her time working as a prostitute in Dublin, Ireland, explains how she witnessed many women occupy multiple sectors of the sex industry simultaneously. Moran did this herself. She worked for an online escort agency while also doing street work and describes how the men who slept with her through the agency “were paying me several times more than I'd been paid for the same service the day before” (while streetwalking). In Moran's opinion, the “high-class” escort is nothing more than an image. She has seen brothel owners repackage their businesses as “high-class” agencies to cater to a wealthier clientele. But that's all it is: packaging. “Many like to assume that when they call an escort agency, a higher class of vagina will arrive at their door and, as an afterthought, that there'll be a higher class of woman attached to it.” But as Moran's experience shows, the difference between high-class escorts and streetwalkers is often a question of semantics." --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/antonio-myers4/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/antonio-myers4/support

This weeks Historical Heaux is the Goddess Venus fka Aphrodite and Astarte. The source used was written by Maggie McNeill a retired call girl. https://maggiemcneill.com/2010/12/23/whore-goddesses/ Sydney Screams - sydneyscreams.com Instagram @sydneyscreams OnlyFans @sydneyscreams4u Cori - https://msha.ke/thegoddesscori/ Email thegoddesscori@protonmail.com Cashapp $spcori Venmo @hcore Instagram and Twitter @thegoddesscori Selena - Tiktok @selenathestrumpet Instagram @prettyboygirl @heauxinthekneaux and Patreon therealprettyboygirl Venmo @selenathestripper Strippers United Inc. fka Soldiers of Pole Instagram @soldiers_of_pole_

Un-retired call girl Maggie McNeill on Visa’s decision to stop processing payments for PornHub

Kitty and Dean chat with Maggie McNeill about the importance for sex work activism, her writing and the need for sex work decriminalisation.

Why is it important for sex workers to be involved with media representation? Kitty and Dean chat with author and sex worker Maggie McNeill about the documentary The War on Whores. 

Maggie McNeill received her BA (English) from the University of New Orleans in 1987 and her MLIS from Louisiana State University in 1993. After several years. She a retired call girl. She writes at her blog, The Honest Courtesan.)And best selling author who has wrote extensively about sex worker. She sat down to talk with us to speaking about sex worker being the cool profession again. Her website www.maggiemcneill.wordpress.com SHOW CREDITS Host: Keko - twitter.com/therealkeko Guest: Maggie McNeill Producer: Mac Redd Music Guest: Mouth Piece - Lost One's Background Music: Pilot Kid Donate: cash.app/$folksalert Phone/ Email: 646-54-FOLKS / info@folksalert.com Website: www.folksalert.com

Gideon's Trumpet: Author Maggie McNeill and I talk about historical precedents for the suspension of civil liberties in times of national crisis and how pandemic panics lead to increased stigmatization of the sex industry, as well as some tangible things you can do to support your local out-of-work sex professional.  All In A Day's (Sex) Work is produced by Blair Hopkins and brought to you in part by SWOP-Behind Bars. Music by New Orleans' own Johnny Sketch and the Dirty Notes. Special thanks as always to Alex Andrews: to contribute to the good work she's doing visit swopbehindbars.org and remember: All In A Day's (Sex) Work is an ever-expanding narrative; if you are a sex worker, partner, patron, or other adult industry-adjacent person, I want to hear from you! Email me at info@ADSWProject.org. Resources:  The Honest Courtesan (Maggie McNeill) Coronavirus Fears are Decimating the Sex Industry (Michael Hobbes, Huffington Post)

This week, writer, sex worker, and sex worker activist Maggie McNeill joins the show to talk about sex work in Star Trek. We've seen the Enterprise stop at its share of "pleasure planets" on Star Trek and no one bats an eye, which means that Risa either has the best roller coaster in the galaxy or the Federation is a lot cooler with sex work than our governments are in the 21st century. But how would sex work in a money-free society work? Are pleasure planets regulated by the government? Is there a horga'hn carver union? We answer (some) of these questions and more as we compare Trek's utopian views on pleasure with the tangled mess of laws and opinions in the 21st century.Now if you'll excuse me, I've got a "UFP Vice" series to write!Follow Maggie on Twitter and check out her other work!http://www.twitter.com/maggie_mcneillhttps://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/https://amzn.to/3bA7Z0Bhttps://reason.com/2020/02/01/how-the-war-on-sex-work-crushes-underprivileged-women/Learn more about the economy of the Federation with Trekomomics!https://amzn.to/2Ge2HcGCheck out the newest member of the Just Enough Trope family, Sailor Noob!http://www.twitter.com/noob_sailorGet intimate with us on Facebook and Twitter and the Just Enough Trope Discord!http://www.facebook.com/eistpodhttp://www.twitter.com/eistpodhttps://discord.gg/APk2cCyBuy us a horga'hn holster on Patreon!http://www.patreon.com/eistpodSubscribe to the show on iTunes!https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/enterprising-individuals/id1113165661?mt=2

This week, writer, sex worker, and sex worker activist Maggie McNeill joins the show to talk about sex work in Star Trek. We've seen the Enterprise stop at its share of "pleasure planets" on Star Trek and no one bats an eye, which means that Risa either has the best roller coaster in the galaxy or the Federation is a lot cooler with sex work than our governments are in the 21st century. But how would sex work in a money-free society work? Are pleasure planets regulated by the government? Is there a horga'hn carver union? We answer (some) of these questions and more as we compare Trek's utopian views on pleasure with the tangled mess of laws and opinions in the 21st century.Now if you'll excuse me, I've got a "UFP Vice" series to write!Follow Maggie on Twitter and check out her other work!http://www.twitter.com/maggie_mcneillhttps://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/https://amzn.to/3bA7Z0Bhttps://reason.com/2020/02/01/how-the-war-on-sex-work-crushes-underprivileged-women/Learn more about the economy of the Federation with Trekomomics!https://amzn.to/2Ge2HcGCheck out the newest member of the Just Enough Trope family, Sailor Noob!http://www.twitter.com/noob_sailorGet intimate with us on Facebook and Twitter and the Just Enough Trope Discord!http://www.facebook.com/eistpodhttp://www.twitter.com/eistpodhttps://discord.gg/APk2cCyBuy us a horga'hn holster on Patreon!http://www.patreon.com/eistpodSubscribe to the show on iTunes!https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/enterprising-individuals/id1113165661?mt=2

A monthly podcast where we explore one Trek fan's history with Star Trek and hear their story about their love of Trek. This episode's guest is Maggie McNeill. Connect with her on Twitter at @Maggie_McNeill. You can check out her blog, The Honest Courtesan here. If you liked the show, please make sure that you've subscribed to the podcast via your preferred player. Connect with the Trek Profiles podcast via:  - Email feedback@trekprofiles.com  - FB https://www.facebook.com/TrekProfiles  - Twitter https://twitter.com/trekprofiles  - Full show notes are posted at https://www.TrekProfiles.com This podcast brought to you by Stars and Sky Media Lab. It's Cosmic!

Welcome to Mutual Exchange radio, a project of the Center for a Stateless Society. Today’s guest is Maggie McNeil, an author, journalist, and blogger who is an expert on sex work and a sex worker herself. Maggie has written a series of short stories on sex work, Ladies of the Night,  runs her own blog, The Honest Courtesan, and has had her writings featured in outlets such as The Washington Post, Reason Magazine and Cato Unbound. Most recently, she was featured prominently in the documentary The War on Whores, which you can rent on Vimeo. Today we discussed the legal and moral issues surrounding sex work in which Maggie gave her strongest case for decriminalization and responded to some common objections, as well as the social and moral implications of its decriminalization and normalization. You can tell that Maggie really knows the empirical literature on this topic and that made this an especially informative conversation. I hope you learned as much as I did.

Daniel Oppenheimer and I talked about Stephen Elliott’s essay and lawsuit (filed last week) against Moira Donegan and the “Shitty Men in Media” list that Elliott was named in a year ago this week.This one was put together on short notice, and made in part because I couldn’t find written words to express my thoughts on this and it was making me crazy. Here are some stories mentioned in the episode: Elliott’s “How An Anonymous Accusation Derailed My Life”: https://quillette.com/2018/09/25/how-an-anonymous-accusation-derailed-my-life/The news story about the lawsuit: https://www.thecut.com/2018/10/stephen-elliott-sues-moira-donegan.htmlOther “shitty men” respond to the lawsuit: https://www.thecut.com/2018/10/stephen-elliott-moira-donegan-men-respond.htmlWriters respond to the lawsuit: https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/books/writers-condemn-author-stephen-elliott-after-he-sues-creator-of-s-ty-media-men-listOn the possible effects of the suit:https://www.thecut.com/2018/10/stephen-elliott-lawsuit-moira-donegan-spreadsheet-privacy-expert.htmlThe Honest Couretesan’s Maggie McNeill’s “Topping from the Bottom” mentioned & quoted in intro: https://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2018/10/15/topping-from-the-bottom/Moira Donegan’s legal defense fundraiser: https://www.gofundme.com/hz8sxqMy “A noisy man on the silence of men” rant:https://medium.com/@15minsjamieb/if-this-reads-like-a-facebook-post-a0fde26a45a7If you want to read Bari Weiss’s Times Opinion Piece, you’ll have to look it up yourself.Please find all our episodes, I’d say all of them more cheery than this one, at http://15minutesjamieberger.comInsta/twitter: @15minsjamiebFeedback? info@15minutesjamieberger.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Maggie McNeill and Mistress Matisse are two of the most prominent leaders of the emergent sex-worker rights movement. Maggie McNeill is the author of the indispensable Honest Courtesan blog, and Mistress Matisse is a former columnist for the Seattle-based alternative newspaper The Stranger and is the creator of Velvet Swing, a cannabis-infused sex lube. For … Continue reading Episode 67: Maggie McNeill & Mistress Matisse →

"I married my favourite client" Maggie McNeill is a self-proclaimed whore. She has been writing about sex worker rights, trafficking and safety on her blog The Honest Courtesan. Maggie chats to Bibi and Miranda about her experience in the sex industry. Stay in touch with the girls on Twitter @goodsexbadsexxx.

Mance welcomes Maggie McNeill to the show. Maggie is an escort and more famously, an advocate for sex workers. Maggie talks about the recent article she wrote for Reason Magazine, "What to Know Before You Pay for Sex," as well as the recent passing of the FOSTA bill (Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act). Maggie's Books Maggie's Blog Maggie on Twitter Mance's Book Available for Cryptocurrency Mance on Twitter

I speak with author and sex workers' rights activist, Maggie McNeill! Maggie gives me strength and helps keep me in the work I do; she's amazing. We discuss alllll sorts of stuff, from SESTA/FOSTA and Stormy Daniels, to moral panics and the problem with enthusiastic consent.

The wonderful Maggie McNeill & Angela Keaton join me to solve all the world's problems in this episode. That's right, we cover everything including politics, butt stuff, the ADL & Starbucks, the police, religion, love, and hygiene. Scarlet Road documentary: http://www.scarletroad.com.au/about/ Maggie' blog: https://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/ Follow Maggie: @Maggie_McNeill Follow AK: @AnarchaSexRays Stepping Off the Relationship Escalator Book: https://offescalator.com/

I talk to Maggie McNeill, a sex worker and author, who for many good reasons calls herself a whore. Maggie’s blog, The Honest Courtesan, and her Twitter account have become hubs of the emergent sex-workers’ rights movement. She is a living renegade and one of the fiercest thinkers I know.

Maggie and I met on Twitter when I saw the #rightsnotrescue picture campaign that she helped start with @mistressmatisse. So, part 2 of our conversation is all about Maggie being an activist for sex workers. It's a great conversation. Please enjoy and let me know what you think.  

Maggie McNeill is a former sex worker who blogs as The Honest Courtesan. http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/   Maggie tells me about her decision to become a stripper and how her mother refused to speak to her afterward. We also talk about the term "casual prostitution", how she never even saw a condom until she became a stripper, and how “sex was always transactional for (her).”   Link to the documentary called Scarlet Road http://www.scarletroad.com.au/trailer/   Link to the Touching Base charity http://www.touchingbase.org/  

Maggie McNeill, retired madam, sex worker, and a lead blogger at Cato Unbound http://goo.gl/AsQV1T, joins Bob to discuss the legalization of “the oldest profession.” Why is America the only non-communist country to criminalize sex work? After all, many women expect their dates to pay for their meals and entertainment. Is that a crime? If not, how is that not prostitution? The lines between legal and illegal activity are impossibly blurred, leading to the inescapable conclusion that exchanging sex for money is only illegal if a poor woman does it. Class discrimination at its worst. Theselaws infantilize and demean women, yet they remain on the books. Maggie helps us sort this out. One small step towards the end of hypocrisy about sex in America.