Interviews, Updates
For Portland Sex Worker Elle Stanger, Being Stuck at Home Means Balancing Porn With Parenting – WW
WW presents “Distant Voices,” a daily video interview for the era of social distancing. Our reporters are asking Portlanders what they’re doing during quarantine. Elle Stanger is a stripper, sex worker, educator, writer and podcaster. She is also a mother to an 8-year-old daughter. And as far as she’s concerned, none of those titles are… Read More
Education, Interviews
The Best Condoms for Every Shape, Size, and Proclivity – NY MAG
While we all might be curious about the best plunger or probiotic tampon or cold-sore remedy, it can be difficult to discuss these more personal items. That’s why we’re tackling Things We Don’t Talk About, a series in which we track down the best hygiene-, sex-, and bodily function–related things we all need but might… Read More
Interviews, Updates
Stripper Whisperer Podcast – Cory Michaelis
Comedian Cory Michaelis does his first stripper interview with Elle Stanger (@stripperwriter) from Portland, Oregon. Elle is a sex educator, stripper, does other sexual work, and has an insightful and wonderful podcast called ‘Strange Bedfellows’. Tune in to hear her sultry voice and check out the video on Patreon. Listen to the episode on iTunes… Read More
Interviews, Updates
Welcome to PDXXX, Where Strippers Are Keeping Portland Weird – HERE Magazine
From pioneers in the 1800s to early punk rockers in the 1970s, Portland, Oregon, has long been a haven for nonconformists. And though the punk of the ’70s might be long gone—drowned in a sea of bottomless brunch and faux lumberjacks—there’s a different group keeping Portland’s tradition of radical performance alive; one that’s more… Read More
Education, Interviews, Updates
Something Positive for Positive People – EP 51 w/ Elle Stanger
Elle Stanger like hanger, AKA @Stripperwriter is a Sex Worker & one half of the Strange Bedfellows Podcast which is a space for understanding the facts about a VERY misunderstood industries and informative about the intersection of sex and politics! I admire Elle for all her activism work, her intelligence, resilience and realness! We talk… Read More
Articles, Interviews
Strippers Are Doing It for Themselves – New York Times
An industry organizes against decades of exploitation. “Our audiences in the last 10 years, specific to my home club, have become more diverse, younger, more gender broad,” said Elle Stanger, 32, who has worked as a stripper for a decade and lives in Portland. “It’s not just middle-aged white men anymore.” Read the full… Read More
Education, Interviews, Updates
Portland Toy Company Interview – PDX Scene Magazine
Sex toys…the words are often tossed about with a giggle, a smirk, or a whisper. Many people buy them, use them, wonder about them. Squishy phalluses made national headlines two years ago when they began appearing on Portland’s telephone poles, a prank that delighted or horrified onlookers, depending on who you asked. Batteries aside, phallic… Read More
Education, Interviews, Updates
Dr Evelin Dacker – Interview
Dr. Evelin Dacker has been a healthcare provider for twenty-four years, and she has some big plans for the future of sexual health in America. Today, this sex-positive doc with a TEDx talk tells us why herpes is the new chicken pox, how sex-workers are healers, and why your doctor might be motivated to overprescribe.… Read More
Education, Interviews
Sex Work and Parenting – Wash Your Mouth Out with Soap Podcast
How do you talk to kids when they find sex toys? How does a stripper or porn star talk to a child about their work? How do you navigate “What does your mom do for a living?” What is it like to have a postpartum body as a stripper? Elle Stanger answers these questions and… Read More
Interviews, Updates
SLUTEVER – STRIPPERS Episode on VICE
With strip club culture entering the mainstream, Karley spends time with multiple erotic dancers and their fans to find out: are strippers the new “It Girls”? Look for me and some of your other favorite Portland strippers in this episode! Read More
