One Nation Under A Dildo: Sex Worker Visions

What do you get when you give a sex worker a dildo, a glue gun, sequins, paint, and a thread and needle? Art, of course! $pread magazine, the now two year old magazine by and for sex workers, is unveiling more than forty decorated (and mutilated) dildos as part of its second annual art exhibition Sex Worker Visions, curated by Fleshbot contributor Audacia Ray. Sex workers in Cleveland, Chicago, Toronto, Montreal and New York got together in their respective cities with craft supplies and dildos to make phallic creations that look like muppets, WMDs, and disco balls ... sometimes all at once. The larger show features a whole host of Fleshbot crush objects as well: Annie Sprinkle, Molly Crabapple, Zak Smith, and Vena Virago are all showing pieces about working in the sex industry. To top it all off, the exhibition is at Arena Studios, a working dungeon, so art fans can ponder whether that elaborate rack of paddles and pointy things is an installation piece or part of the decor.

· One Sex Worker Nation Under Dildo (Flickr)
· "Sex workers' art on display" (ny.metro.us)
· $pread Magazine (spreadmagazine.org)
· Sex Worker Visions II Info (opens tonight @ Arena Studios, 407 Broome Street, NYC)

Previously: 2007 Sex Workers' Art Show Tour, 2007 Seattle Erotic Art Festival, Sex Worker Podcast: Tow Truck Panties' RenegadeCast