Suzannah Weiss
Should The Spa Industry Fight For The Legalization Of Sex Work?
In March 2021, a white man killed eight people—primarily Asian women—in shootings at three Atlanta area spas. The man, 23-year-old Robert Aaron Long, is serving a life sentence after pleading guilty and could face the death penalty....
Pubic Hair And Public Norms: How Beauty Brands Are Navigating Changing Personal Grooming Attitudes And Practices
In the past five years, publications the likes of Vogue, Elle and Daily Mail have declared the bush is the new...
Startups Promote Sex Toys As The Latest Wellness Must-Haves
Before they became known as gadgets geared toward enhancing sexual pleasure and spicing up people’s sex lives, vibrators were primarily marketed as health and beauty devices. The earliest vibrators were advertised as treatments for everything from uterine...
Mainstream Retailers Are Selling Sex Toys, But How Much Do They Know About Them?
At Walmart, women can shop for milk, bread, eggs, socks and school supplies along with sex toys. The brand PlusOne debuted at the megachain two years ago, and Walmart is far from the only mainstream retailer that’s...
Cannabis Stores Are Proliferating, But Are They Worth Visiting?
When the cannabis industry was underground, stores serving cannabis users weren’t much to look at. But capitalism can act quickly, and mounting recreational marijuana legalization over the last eight years has transformed old-school pot shops into modern retail...
Spas Often Alienate Plus-Size Customers. Here’s How They Can Change.
Sheri Arcuria, a 38-year-old bookkeeper and author, was getting a massage at a spa when the masseuse instructed her, “You need to go to the gym.” The masseuse didn’t end there. “She said my bones were not big,...
