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I’m a writer and freelance journalist covering sex, tech, and politics, in the streets and everywhere else.

My latest book, Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work (Verso, 2014) challenges the myths about selling sex and those who make them.

My reporting and commentary appears in The Nation, Wired, The Atlantic, Glamour, The Guardian, In These Times, The Washington Post, Dissent, The American Prospect, Reason, Slate, Jezebel, and Valleywag, among other publications, and I’m a contributing editor at Jacobin.

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	Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work 3.91 avg rating — 1,869 ratings — published 2014 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	We Too: Essays on Sex Work and Survival by Natalie West (Editor, Introduction), Tina Horn (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Selena the Stripper (Foreword) 4.51 avg rating — 344 ratings — published 2021 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Coming and Crying by Melissa Gira Grant (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Meaghan O'Connell (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Stephen Elliott (Contributor) 3.72 avg rating — 144 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Better Than IRL: True Stories About Finding Your People on the Untamed Internet by Katie West (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jasmine Elliot (Co-Editor), James Mitchell (Goodreads Author) 4.16 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 2020	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Best Sex Writing 2013: The State of Today's Sexual Culture by Rachel Kramer Bussel (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Carol Queen (Foreword), Jon Pressick (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.93 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 2013 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Girl Crush: Women's Erotic Fantasies by Roxane Gay (Goodreads Author) (Editor/Contributor), Cheyenne Blue (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Kirsty Logan (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.64 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 2010 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Take This Book: A History of the People's Library at Occupy Wall Street 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	For Love or Money by Sarah Jaffe (Goodreads Author), Melissa Gira Grant (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“People who are profiled by cops as sex workers include, in disproportionate numbers, trans women, women of color, and queer and gender nonconforming youth. This isn't about policing sex. It's about profiling and policing people whose sexuality and gender are considered suspect.”
― Melissa Gira Grant, Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work

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“The presence of money does not remove one's ability to consent. Consent, in and out of sex work, is not just given but constructed, and from multiple factors: setting, time, emotional state, trust, and desire. Desire is contingent on all of these. Consent and desire aren't states frozen in our bodies, tapped into and felt or offered. They are formed.”
― Melissa Gira Grant, Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work

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“If the sex workers standing in the doorways in Phnom Penh's red-light district looked out on the street with fear, it could be just as likely from the prospect of rescue as due to any customer.”
― Melissa Gira Grant, Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work

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