☆brooklyn☆’s Reviews > Working Girl: On Selling Art and Selling Sex > Status Update

“I do not wish anything to be taken from me. I wish to give freely, or to sell.”

“I thought that the surest defense against losing access to either was to be sex or to be art — for the consumption of others, and for the reassurance of myself that I was bound up with what I wanted. But sometimes to be inside something is to be very far from it.”

“To participate in the art and sex marketplaces …you are called to sacrifice yourself, or that which you hold dearest; you do things that were previously unimaginable to you; you are at different times exalted and exploited; and your ambitions, once ambient, crystallize viciously both in and out of reach. Getting what you want means giving something up; every solution is beautiful, violent.”