My Origin Story: How Unionized Sex Work, San Francisco, and Baseball created Siouxsie Q

Originally published under an alternative title on January 29th, 2014 in the San Francisco Weekly to kick off my (late, great) print column “The Whore Next Door” which ran for nearly four years.

During Game Five of the 2010 World Series, my dad and I sat side by side at a sushi bar in my Central Coast hometown. We ordered two scallop hand rolls and two sake…