Veronica Vera Writes

My current thoughts on human sexuality and gender; a look back at my sex journalism from the 1980’s and beyond; people, places and events of the ongoing sexual evolution.

1980s-90s Journalism Archives

Norma Jean Almodovar, VV, two sex workers who preferred anonymity, Gloria Lockett.
10 MIN READ

Margo St. James, mother of the modern sex workers’ rights movement, has died. She left the planet on January 11. 2021. This article describes the international gathering of sex workers at the European Parliament in Brussels that Margo organized with Gayle Phedersen in October 1986.…Read More

Veronica prowls the city in search of sidewalk hookers, from the black women on the Lexington Avenue beat to the queens who work near the West Side highway.
8 MIN READ

Throughout the 1980’s I had a column in ADAM magazine called “Veronica Vera’s New York.” Here’s one of the treasures from my archives. I look forward to sharing more with you from my past as well as my present. Your comments are most welcome. I invite you to subscribe, and if you already have, thanks a lot!…Read More

Veronica Vera by Robert Mapplethorpe
12 MIN READ

One picture is worth a thousand words, but some are worth many thousand and sometimes thousands of dollars. This story is of such a picture, a photograph by the artist Robert Mapplethorpe. When you look, you will see me, the model. What you cannot see is the story behind the image, its provenance. On the…Read More

Al Goldstein
10 MIN READ

At fifteen Al Goldstein was a shy teenager who sent away for a book on how to kiss girls. He practiced technique on his own hand. At age 32, Goldstein created SCREW magazine, “the world’s greatest newspaper,” the sex tabloid responsible in its eighteen year history for millions of orgasms. A newspaper that men like to…Read More