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The video, which stars Itkis and porn performer Nicole Sage, is called "Bucket List Bonanza" and could have tanked his campaign as, historically, congressional candidates have teams that work around the clock to prevent such tapes from being made public; but in this case, the unconventional effort is well-received as a prime example of a politician putting actions above rhetoric.

My ICON (Blondie, Debbie Harry) from my teenage years was interviewed by Esquire Magazine. She was asked, If you were coming across the river to Manhattan as a twenty-year-old today, what would you be aiming for?

Her reply:

I think that probably now I would go into the sex industry.

I don’t know, but that’s a clandestine area, and I was always interested in the clandestine. That’s what attracted me to the music world. And I don’t know where you can find that so much these days.

From the book “Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age” by Debby Applegate. Copyright © 2021 by Debby Applegate. Published by Doubleday, a copy of The Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.

Whore is a word that offends the ear and tastes bitter on the tongue. The English language abounds with more polite, poetic and precise terms to describe a woman exchanging sex for money: prostitute, sex worker, evening lady, working girl, fallen woman, call girl. Many more are apologetically rude: whore, rag, k ** t, and piece of skin were all commonly heard in New York dives after the Great War.

Women who made a business of sex in those days often turned their noses up over the expression prostitute, prefers to call himself hustlers, party girls, or regulars. But everyone in the sex industry used the word whore. “In those days, prostitutes were not called chippies or pies or call girls or other fancy names,” columnist Danton Walker recalled. “They were known, quite rightly, by the biblical name: whores, and their establishments were called brothels.” It was, after all, one of the world’s oldest words, used to describe the world’s oldest profession.

A popup art exhibition aimed at destigmatizing sex work opens in Manhattan on Tuesday. The art exhibition features work from 10 different countries. Over 50 per cent of the artists have participated in sex work. Some artists include Midori, Jacq The Stripper, Kisha Bari, pieces from the clothing line DASPU, founded by the late Gabriela Leite of Brazil, Pluma Sumaq, and Molly Crabapple, who has documented the sex work decriminalization movement in New York City in various drawings on DecrimNY.