Sex-worker

Sex workers and former addicts in Czech Republic’s capital show tourists city’s dark side

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Sex workers and former addicts in Czech Republic’s capital show tourists city’s dark side

Every Friday, Lada leaves her small apartment to take tourists around Prague’s underworld. “I pass on my cautionary tale,” says the 54-year-old sex worker as she chain-smokes her way through Wenceslas Square in the Czech capital. “At least my ruined life can be useful. I can make a clean breast of it. It’s a relief.” … Read more

Anora, a comic yet devastating film about a sex worker’s marriage, wins Palme d’Or at Cannes

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Anora, a comic yet devastating film about a sex worker’s marriage, wins Palme d’Or at Cannes

Sean Baker’s Anora, a comic but devastating Brooklyn odyssey about a sex worker who marries the son of a wealthy Russian oligarch, has won the Cannes Film Festival’s top award, the Palme d’Or. Baker accepted the prize with his movie’s star, Mikey Madison, watching in the audience at the festival’s closing ceremony on Saturday. The win … Read more