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JOURNALISM
“When Children Grow Up Online, They Lose Their Private Lives,” self-published, October 8, 2024
“10 Locals Share Wild ‘Only in L.A.’ Stories,” The Los Angeles Times, September 26, 2024
“Playboy To Bring Back Its Print Magazine With Annual Edition,” Forbes August 8, 2024
“Etsy Banned Sex Toys, But It Can’t Ban Sex,” Forbes, August 5, 2024
“How the Hardest Working Director in Porn Gets the Job Done,” Forbes, July 26, 2024
“Repo Your Enthusiasm (18): Man Bites Dog,” HILOBROW, May 28, 2024
“Lessons Learned From Growing Up as a Test Subject,” Next Big Idea Club, November 17, 2023
“I Spent My Childhood as a Guinea Pig for Science. It Was … Great?,” Slate, November 15, 2023
“How HBO’s ‘The Idol,' With a Little Help From Valentino, Rewrote the ‘Pretty Woman’ Playbook,” Forbes, June 25, 2023
“It’s Cara Delevingne’s ‘Planet Sex,’ and We’re All Just Living In It,” Forbes, January 29, 2023
“Meet the Brit Reviewing Every Playboy Magazine on YouTube,” Forbes, January 24, 2023
“How Rapper Iggy Azalea Is Making Money on OnlyFans,” Forbes, January 22, 2023
“I, For One, Welcome Our Strip Club Bouncer Robot Overlords,” Forbes, January 6, 2023
“Everyone Has a Pervert Hidden Inside of Them,” The Reverse Cowgirl, April 29, 2022
“The Hand Print,” Valleywood, September 27, 2021
“A Clockwork Orange,” HILOBROW, August, 19, 2020
“Meet the Artist Turning Blowup Dolls into Fashion Designs,” Forbes, July 21, 2020
“Lessons from the Top of the Corporate Ladder,” She Negotiates, May 27, 2020
“Porn Star 3.0: This X-Rated Social Media Influencer Makes Seven Figures a Year,” Forbes, May 27, 2020
“A Sex Worker Reveals How the COVID-19 Pandemic Has Changed Sex Work,” Forbes, May 14, 2020
“Here's How Strippers Are Surviving the Coronavirus Pandemic,” Forbes, May 13, 2020
“Slasher,” Seriocomic on HILOBROW, October 2, 2019
“Topping from the Bottom,” Gay Magazine, September 24, 2019
“Kylie Jenner Poses Nude For Playboy, And People Are Still Asking If That’s Empowering,” Forbes, September 19, 2019
“If a Porn Company Opened an Adult-Themed Coffee Shop, Would People Come?”, Forbes, April 8, 2019
"These Illicit, Sometimes Explicit Cakes Are The Kind Other Bakers Won't Make," Forbes, August 13, 2018
"Paul Manafort's Purported $15,000 Ostrich Jacket Is the Talk of the Trial," Forbes, July 31, 2018
"Porn's Uncanny Valley," The Atlantic, June 2, 2018
"I Spent $40 to Get High From a Cannabis Candy Bar," Forbes, May 21, 2018
"The Hustle of Financial Domination," Topic, December 29, 2017
"It's Porn, but Its Business Model Is a 'World Without Men,'" Forbes, December 15, 2017
"Portrait of a (New) Porn Star as a Gig Economy Hustler," Forbes, December 11, 2017
"Silicone Vagina," Lost Objects, December 5, 2017
"HBO's 'Meth Storm' Delivers a Harrowing Look at the Rural Drug War," Forbes, November 28, 2017
"At Home with the New Superstars of Porn," FourTwoNine Magazine, Fall 2017
"A Tour of Graceland Reveals Elvis Presley Was the King of a Curious Domain," Forbes, September 26, 2017
"5 Reasons You Should Watch HBO's New Porn Drama, 'The Deuce,'" Forbes, August 31, 2017
"How One Pornographer Is Trying to Elevate Porn to Art," Forbes, July 20, 2017
"Comey Talks Russian 'Hookers' With Trump And Sex Workers Are Not Amused," Forbes, June 7, 1017
"Why We Love Mugshots," Forbes, June 4, 2017
"This Entrepreneur's Sex Toy Business Is All In The Family," Forbes, April 18, 2017
"Porn Production Halted After Adult Performer Possibly Tests Positive For HIV," Forbes, April 16, 2017
"Wonder Woman Doesn't Have Armpit Hair Because Women's Bodies Freak Men Out," Forbes, March 19, 2017
"How Two Young Black Entrepreneurs Got a 'Retired Drug Dealer' Hat on Jay-Z's Head," Forbes, March 9, 2017
"This $85,000 Gun Has a Piece of the Statue of Liberty In It," Forbes, February 22, 2017
"A Male Porn Star Discovers Leaving Porn Is Harder Than You'd Think," Forbes, February 21, 2017.
"Playboy Is Naked Again and It is Awesome," Forbes, February 13, 2017
"How a Porn Company and a Fashion Brand Shocked New York Fashion Week," Forbes, September 27, 2016
"The El Chapo Manicure Turns A Drug Lord Into Nail Art," Forbes, July 28, 2016
"Meet Trophy Wife Barbie: She Smokes, Drinks, and Raises Hell," Forbes, June 1, 2016
"Absolute Vodka Gets Provocative with Transgender Ad," Forbes, May 29, 2016
"This Dancer Is Turning Strip Club Conversations into Art," Forbes, May 26, 2016
"The No Nudes Playboy Is Here and It's Terrible," Forbes, April 4, 2016
"I've Waited for Virtual Reality Porn Forever, and Now It's Here," Forbes, December 31, 2015
"Excuse Me, Your Fantasy Football Is Getting in My Porn Business," Forbes, November 27, 2015.
"How the Biggest Strip Club in America Grinds," Forbes, August 29, 2015.
"Machine Guns Are the Main Attraction at Lock & Load in Miami," Forbes, August 25, 2015.
"Meet the Vince Lombardi of Cam Girls," Forbes, August 18, 2015.
"What Do Poker and Crack Have in Common? A Pro Tells All," Forbes, July 31, 2015.
"Welcome to the Guntry Club, Where There's a Boardroom and a Shooting Range," Forbes, July 29, 2015
"Instagram Your Drug Tattoo And Everyone Will Like You," Forbes, June 24, 2015
"Blood Sacrifice," The Billfold, May 4, 2015
"The 7 Best Performances by Porn Stars in Mainstream Movies," Men's Health, March 10, 2015
"In Praise of Cleavag, the New Cleavage," Men's Health, February 24, 2014
"The Rise and Fall of the King of Swing," NYC, 1981, December 24, 2014
"What Surviving Cancer Really Taught Her," Men's Health, November 20, 2014
"Faces of Breast Cancer," The New York Times, October 27, 2014
"Miss You Can Do It: A Pageant For Special Needs Girls," Marie Claire Australia, April 2014
"Miss You Can Do It: A Pageant For Special Needs Girls," Marie Claire South Africa, March 2014
"Come And Take Our Guns From Our Cold, Dead Hands," Forbes, February 28, 2014
"A Wall Street Gambling Addict Talks Money, Winning, and Losing," Forbes, January 31, 2014
"For Women In Porn, The Personal Is Political And Profitable," Forbes, January 22, 2014
"Obamacare Heroin Reveals Drug Dealers May Have A Liberal Bias," Forbes, December 24, 2013
"What Porn Stars Do When The Porn Industry Shuts Down," Forbes, December 20, 2013
"I Wanna Be A Male Porn Star," Salon, December 2, 2013
"A Big Black Gun Goes Pink," Forbes, November 29, 2013
"For Marijuana Smokers, A Weed Manicure Is High Fashion," Forbes, November 27, 2013
"Porn From My Perspective," Glamour UK, November, 2013
"Miss You Can Do It: A Pageant For Special Needs Girls," The Telegraph, November 4, 2013
"Meet The Bros Of The Death Care Industry," Forbes, October 31, 2013
"A Supposedly Sinful Burger Stirs Up Controversy," Forbes, October 9, 2013.
"What No One Tells You About Having Breast Cancer," Women's Health, October 1, 2013
"A Girl And A .22," Forbes, September 21, 2013
"Porn, HIV, And What To Do About It," Forbes, August 26, 2013
"How Porn Is Making Money Off The Anthony Weiner Scandal," Forbes, July 29, 2013
"The Last Real Porn Star," Hysterical Literature, July 16, 2013
"Nicki Minaj Battles Hip-Hop's Heavy Hitters For Booze Supremacy," Forbes, July 15, 2013
"For TASER, Women Are A Big Deal," Forbes, June 13, 2013
"The Best Drink I Ever Had," Forbes, June 6, 2013
"Your Brain Is Broken," Medium, May 11, 2013
"How To Stand Out At Work," Women's Health, March 14, 2013
"In The Valley Of The Porn Star Dolls," Forbes, January 18, 2013
"Great Expectations," Marie Claire, November, 2012.
"Strip Clubs Are The New Normal," The Guardian, October 19, 2012
"The Ass Who Married The Elephant," The Daily Beast, October 4, 2012
"The Obscenity Police Are Coming," Forbes, September 13, 2012
"Is Apple A Sin Stock?", Forbes, September 6, 2012
"The Porn Convention," Forbes, July 30, 2012
"Why You Shouldn't Be A Writer," Forbes, June 12, 2012
"The Hardest Thing About Being A Male Porn Star," Forbes, April 23, 2012
"The Gig Economy," Inc., February 7, 2012
"Interview: Sandra Bernhard," A.V. Club, January 9, 2012
"How Much Do Strippers Make?", Forbes, October 25, 2011
"Why's This So Good? No. 11," Nieman Storyboard, September 13, 2011
"9/11 Stories: 'No One Talks About That,'" Forbes, September 11, 2011
"After Hurricane Katrina, Years Of Post-Traumatic Stress," The Atlantic, August 29, 2011
"Why Do Women Become Sex Workers, And Why Do Men Go To Them?", The Guardian, August 5, 2011
"Why Women Shouldn't Go To Tech Conferences," Forbes, July 25, 2011
"Adult Director Max Hardcore Released From Prison," Forbes, July 21, 2011
"Yesterday's TV, Today's Economy: Sex And The City," Minyanville, June 3, 2011
"The Graffiti Of War," Boing Boing, April 27, 2011
"Five Things You Didn't Know About Ben Bernanke," Minyanville, April 11, 2011
"At SXSW Interactive, Recruiters Are Pimps, Fameballs Are Sad, And Big Business Doesn't Listen," Forbes, March 16, 2011
"Will Watson And Our Computer Overlords Always Win?", Minyanville, February 17, 2011
"Rihanna Gets Kinky in New Video for 'S&M,'" BlackBook, February 1, 2011
"The Numbers On Self-Publishing Long-Form Journalism," self-published, October 19, 2010
"Think Porn Is A Legitimate Business? Think Again," Minyanville, October 18, 2010
"Interviews: Edward Norton," Movieline, October 6, 2010
"The Shine," This Recording, September 22, 2010
"Love Junkies," The Good Men Project, September 15, 2010
"The Letters Project: Voices From Both Sides Of The World's Oldest Profession," Fray, August 15, 2010
"Dates Women Actually Like," Esquire, August 14, 2010
"Stephen Hill's Dark Life In Porn," Salon, June 9, 2010
"Trigger Warnings Don't Work. Here's Why," True/Slant, April 14, 2010
"An Appetite For Snuff," True/Slant, April 7, 2010
"Warner Bros. Wants You To Torture A Woman To Death," True/Slant, March 16, 2010
"They Shoot Porn Stars, Don't They?", self-published, October 13, 2009
"Double XX," Slate, June 29, 2009
"The Patriotic Stripper," The Daily Beast, April 20, 2009
"The Great American Freak Show," The Daily Beast, April 6, 2009
"Women Have It Worse," The Daily Beast, March 17, 2009
"Who Watches the Porn Watchers?", Radar, June 12, 2008
"Those Dirty Girls," Salon, May 30, 2008
"Review: Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk," Radar, May 20, 2008
"But Is It Obscene?", Radar, May 7, 2008
"Death And The D.C. Madam," Salon, May 5, 2008
"Dear John," Newsweek, March 12, 2008
"Interview: Clayton Cubitt," JPG, August 20, 2007
"Review: Love Without by Jerry Stahl," Radar, July 13, 2007
"Tiger Beat," Nerve, March 28, 2006
"The Written Word Still Thrives," Wired, July 1, 2005
"The Washingtonienne, A Novel," Wired, June 2, 2005
"Porn Valley Goes Blogging," Wired, May 18, 2005
"Extreme Porn Crackdown," Salon, July 12, 2001
"Person For The Artistic Treatment Of Animals," LA Weekly, May 9, 2001
"Ain't Art A Bitch?", LA Weekly, March 14, 2001
"Porn Caves To Bush," LA Weekly, February 7, 2001
"The Graduate Of Porn Star High," Arena, January 2001
"Ausgang Bang," Detour, May 2000
“Sex Sells,” Detour, August 1998