The ACORN Duo Takes Los Angeles
Watch out, Los Angeles. The ACORN investigative team has just released a new video. This time, though, the employee they spoke with doesn't completely endorse prostitution-earning him the facetious...
Mary Magdalene and Me
Tracy Quan's latest novel is Diary of a Jetsetting Call Girl, set in Provence and praised in The Nation as a "deft account of occupational rigors and anxieties before the crash." Tracy's debut, Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl, and the sequel, Diary of a Married Call Girl, are international bestsellers. A regular columnist for The Guardian, she has written for many publications including Cosmopolitan, The Financial Times, and The New York Times.
As a relic of Mary Magdalene tours the U.S. for the first time, former call girl Tracy Quan on how the patron saint of prostitutes has been present throughout her life.
The Sex Worker Chronicles
Mars van Grunsven is a writer and editor whose work has appeared in many of Holland's leading magazines and newspapers, including De Groene Amsterdammer, FEM Business and NRC Handelsblad. He writes about arts, business, literature, media and social issues.
What do hookers, strippers, and porn stars do all day? A new book, edited by a former rent boy, tells their stories in their own words-words that are NSFW.
The Sex Lives of Male Hookers
Tracy Quan's latest novel is Diary of a Jetsetting Call Girl, set in Provence and praised in The Nation as a "deft account of occupational rigors and anxieties before the crash." Tracy's debut, Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl, and the sequel, Diary of a Married Call Girl, are international bestsellers. A regular columnist for The Guardian, she has written for many publications including Cosmopolitan, The Financial Times, and The New York Times.
Can men really make a living selling sex? Male prostitutes talk to Tracy Quan about HBO's new series, Hung, and how it measures up to their real lives.
Governors Gone Wild
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Going AWOL to have an affair in Argentina? That's small potatoes compared to other bad behavior from some of our nation's governors. Here's a look at some the wildest scandals.
Talk about a memorable introduction. Right after New York lost its rising-star of a governor, Eliot Spitzer (more on him later), former Lt. Gov. Da...
The Last Erotic Massage
Arianne Cohen is the author of the first ever book about tall folks, The Tall Book: A Celebration of Life From On High (Bloomsbury), which will be released nationwide June 16th.
As Craigslist begins monitoring its adult-services classifieds, The Daily Beast sent one intrepid reporter on a final booty call.
A Sex Worker’s Guide to Craigslist
Tracy Quan's latest novel is Diary of a Jetsetting Call Girl, set in Provence and praised in The Nation as a "deft account of occupational rigors and anxieties before the crash." Tracy's debut, Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl, and the sequel, Diary of a Married Call Girl, are international bestsellers. A regular columnist for The Guardian, she has written for many publications including Cosmopolitan, The Financial Times, and The New York Times.
Even since the murder that led to Philip Markoff's arrest, Craigslist has been public enemy No. 1. Former escort Tracy Quan offers a guided tour of the Internet flesh industry.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
The Daily Beast Video curates the most essential and entertaining video, and brings you original and exclusive productions from our talented contributors.
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
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