The “LA X…Press” Revisited: A Local Icon For Sex Workers and Patrons

Joel Eisenberg
5 min readDec 16, 2020

Los Angeles’ own weekly for sex workers and their patrons was omnipresent in the 1990s.

I moved to Los Angeles from Brooklyn, New York in 1989. Disillusioned by culture shock, I moved back to New York for two years in 1991 before permanently returning to L.A. to pursue a writing career.

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Joel Eisenberg

Joel Eisenberg is an award-winning author, screenwriter, and producer. The Oscar in the profile pic isn’t his but he’s scheming. WGA and Pen America member.