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“They had tattoos and did crazy acrobatics and I think one girl had a tramp stamp that read FUCK YOU or maybe FUCK YOU PAY ME.”
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A couple new things:
I wrote a Forbes post about a strip club CEO:
“Pandemic? Fuggedaboutit. Two years of dark news, quarantining, and masks have resulted in a surge of consumers who want to go out and have fun. The strip club business may not be pandemic proof, but according to Langan, it’s pandemic resistant.”
I wrote a newsletter about the story behind that story:
"I had forgotten about that fact, and several other details in the piece, like the dancer who made $800 to $1,000 a night who told me: ‘I have a lot of spunk.’”
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My latest newsletter is out. It features the perversions of dead people’s houses. Read it here. Subscribe here.
I’d assumed the place had belonged to an older gay man who had spent his final years contentedly rendering artistic homages to the penis, but when I got to the bedroom, I realized the deceased resident had been an older woman.
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My latest newsletter is out. It features a walk down sex writer lane. Read it here. Subscribe here.
Interestingly, I’d forgotten many of the things that I’d done and which I’d referenced in the piece. That time I went to a sex dungeon in Van Nuys. That all-girl porn star orgy performance art at a downtown gallery. The ex-prostitute looking to buy the oldest brothel in the country.
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Some time ago, I wrote a short nonfiction story about a lost vagina for an online literary series called Lost Objects. That series is now a book: Lost Objects: 50 Stories About the Things We Miss and Why They Matter. The book was edited by series creators Joshua Glenn and Rob Walker and is being published by Hat & Beard Press. You can pre-order a copy now and / or pre-order one of the limited-edition companion posters here.
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In my latest newsletter, I reveal what happened when I set out to post an X-rated comic I created several years ago online: “My, My Obscene Comic.”
Well, maybe I’ll publish the comic in my newsletter, I thought. But then I started to wonder if doing so would get me banned from Substack. “We don’t allow porn or sexually exploitative content on Substack,” read their Content Guidlines, although “We do allow depictions of nudity for artistic, journalistic, or related purposes, as well as erotic literature.” So, I wasn’t sure.
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In 2002, I launched what became an iconic blog: The Reverse Cowgirl. Now it’s back, as a Substack newsletter: The Reverse Cowgirl. Don’t forget to subscribe!
The RCB, as I referred to it, had what could be described as a prurient focus—after all, its tagline was: “in which a writer attempts to justify the enormity of her porn collection”—but it was also, as I write here, a way for me, a writer, to “share my crazy life working the sex and porn beat, from Porn Valley to the Playboy Mansion, and I was intoxicated by the opportunity that sex blogging afforded me: an uncensored venue where I could write and express whatever I wanted—without censorship.”
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My latest newsletter trades in how the things that happen to us change who we are.
“As I recall it, when I asked the porn star about her background, she explained that when she was very young—a toddler, I think—her father killed her mother and then killed himself.”
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An excerpt from my latest newsletter: “The Hand Print”:
That scene would star Jenna and a well-known male porn star named T. T. Boy, a short, pugnacious performer with a lantern jaw and a permanent scowl who reminded me of a less-bright Patrick Bateman. (“Within the business, he is known as an untiring performer,” T. T. Boy’s Wikipedia page touts. “In a 2015 interview, he stated that over the course of his career, he has slept with over 10,000 women.”) I knew who T. T. Boy was before I arrived because I had read about him in the pages of The New Yorker. In 1995, Susan Faludi had written about the suicide of a male porn star named Cal Jammer, and during her research in the San Fernando Valley, her path had crossed with that of T. T. Boy’s. In her story, she’d quoted a former male porn star who’d observed of T. T. Boy: “Basically, the guy is a life-support system for a penis.” I found this assessment to be about right. He was smaller than me, brooding, coiled as if looking for an excuse to do something to someone—it didn’t really matter what or who, whether it was fighting or fucking. Maybe it was all the same to him.
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My latest newsletter is live. It features Gang Bang Island, a superfreak, and what the storm took from me.
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My latest newsletter features zombies, Wes Anderson, and Ali.
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In the latest installment of my newsletter — subscribe here — I wrote about a bad date and why it’s hard for me to explain what I do as a consultant to men who are not the type of men who are my consulting clients.
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A short nonfiction essay I wrote for the Lost Objects series, “Silicone Vagina,” will be published in an upcoming PROJECT:OBJECT anthology to be published by Hat & Beard Press. The book should be available in spring 2022. I’ll post an update here when it’s available. You can read my story online here.
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My latest newsletter is live, featuring cherry blossoms, Jesus Christ, and imagining your life. Also: Subscribe.
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New year, new things.
I have some openings in my work as a creative consultant. Book me now while the slots are available. Purchase a one-hour phone call or Zoom meeting with me on Gumroad or email me (susannahbreslin at gmail dot com) to set up a session.
I fix words. From book manuscripts to personal essays, movie scripts to television series treatments, content strategy to social media copy, I'm an expert when it comes to making your words better. My clients include Academy Award-winning directors, New York Times best-selling authors, and some of the world's biggest brands.
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2020 in Review. It was good, it bad, and thankfully it is almost over. Here's my year in review. A thread. pic.twitter.com/FJiljFFCcU
— Susannah Breslin (@susannahbreslin) December 31, 2020
