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Another reason not to read the Village Voice: the Lusty Lady column is no more!
Jan 10th, 2025 by Viviane
I got some bad news today. ‘RIP, Lusty Lady column’ was the subject line of the email Rachel Kramer Bussel sent out today.
This week’s Village Voice column, will be her last. RKB She was informed by the editor in chief David Blum that they have hired a new sex columnist. Gawker speculates it’s the Columbia Spectator’s Miriam Datskovsky. I don’t know how many years Rachel has written the column, but she was always one of the first things I read in the Voice, way before I ever got into anything like blogging. Later when I met her, she said to me, ‘my blog isn’t as slutty as yours’, which wasn’t really the point. She’s one of my blog heroes (and now part of the gang that calls itself the Perverts’ Saloon) and writes about sex in a clear and thoughtful voice.
violet blue puts it this way:
Here’s the thing: there are not all that many sex columns around the nation, and certainly few with, ahem, balls. To have a writer like Rachel on staff writing about sex is to have something enviable: who she is and what she brings as a writer and culture critic makes her a *valuable property* — especially on the internet, a tool she seriously know how to mix, bake and frost into delicious viral marketing cupcakes that everyone always seems to want. And unlike many other sex column writers (print or web) she knows a fuck of a lot about sex and sex culture (up to the minute), and importantly, she knows how to *talk about it*…
…Evidently the Voice doesn’t get a lot of what’s going on here, which is so sadly typical of le MSM.
Amen, sister.
Let’s see which new media dating or sex company is smart enough to hire her next.
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