Kinkonomics: Are the people responsible for the recession looking for the spankings they deserve?

February 3, 3:14 PMSex & Relationships ExaminerSarah Estrella

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"Kinkonomics": Tracy Quan investigates S&M in the age of recession

One of the great spectator sports of this recession has been watching the many various angles unfold as different media outlets tackle the topic, and this is my new favorite buzzword: "Kinkonomics."

Over at The Daily Beast today, blogger Tracy Quan (author Diary of a Jetsetting Call Girl, Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl and Diary of a Married Call Girl) uses the term in her article Kinkonomics: As the economy takes a spanking, many women are turning to freelance fetish work to supplement their incomes, a quick peek into the market for freelance fetish workers – dominatrixes, and the like – which includes this wonderful line that pokes at business journalism:

The sector is poised for expansion as more unemployed and underemployed women begin looking for extra cash.

Here's another representative passage:

The money’s not bad, either. Jessica, a pro-domme in her late twenties, apprenticed at a dungeon before striking out on her own. In Manhattan dungeons, she says, the typical cut on a $200 session is 60-40 in the dungeon’s favor. To people who make their entire living in the sex industry—professional escorts who get $500 an hour, for instance—such rates can seem abusive. But freelancers see it differently. “If you’re making $8 an hour at your day job, $80 is awesome,” says Jessica. “There’s no shortage of women willing to work at those rates.”

If you're in New York this Friday, you can catch Tracy Quan along with Elisabeth Eaves (author of Bare: The Naked Truth About Stripping) and David Henry Sterry (author of Master of Ceremonies: a True Story of Love, Murder, Roller Skates & Chippendales) February 6 for:

Sex Worker Literati: A Reading
Elisabeth Eaves, David Henry Sterry & Tracy Quan

KGB Bar
85 East 4th Street
New York City, NY
February 06, 2009
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm