An Ode To Stripperweb, The Beloved Sex Worker Forum

We like to pretend that if something is digital, then it’s forever. But we know that’s not true. The latest casualty of the rapidly disappearing golden age of HTML forums is Stripperweb, a fever dream of hot pink and bubble letters that contained the crowd-sourced Bible for how to succeed and stay safe as a dancer from 2002 until last week, when it abruptly shut down. Like the genesis of many an online community, Stripperweb has an unofficial lore – and it goes like this: The site was started by a man named Curtis Pryce who wanted to talk to… Read Full Article