About a 30-minute Uber ride from Wall Street, there’s a dim purple basement where women, myself included, steadily accumulate bills, one by one, in three-minute song cycles. Some are as young as 18; others, old enough to be their moms. We come from Brooklyn, the Bronx, Russia, Lithuania, Latvia, Brazil, and Colombia. The money pours in from the southern tip of Manhattan, Dubai, London, Singapore, and Silicon Valley. We collect fives in thong straps, twenties in rubber bands around our ankles, coax hundreds out of wallets and into little Swarovski-encrusted clutches. We scoop it up, naked on all fours, in crunched-up wads and fresh sticky singles, confetti-bombed onto the stage.
, despite the high fees. Without cash, strippers are forced into the banking system, an industry that many believe is designed to undermine them.
It’s easy to preview the cashless world: look to Sweden, where, in one 2018 survey, only 13 percent of respondents said that they made their most recent transaction in cash. Most of those transactions are conducted through Swish, a bank-sanctioned Venmo-like app, used by around 60 percent of Swedes.
Because running a brothel is illegal, landlords who rent apartments to sex workers can be prosecuted for pimping; because buying sex is illegal, sex workers’ sexual partners can be suspected of buying sex. And then because sex work is considered a “dishonest” profession, foreigners with residency permits can be denied re-entry to the country, thanks to a law dictating that immigrants must make their living by “honest means.
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