The magazine's focus was: "personal experiences and political insights" and it "contain(ed) practical information like news, features, health columns, and resources related to the sex industry".

[1] $pread was based in New York City, and was sold throughout the United States and Canada at independent bookstores and via national distributors.

"[4] $pread published personal experiences, political insights, and contained practical information, such as news, features, health columns, and sex industry resources.

Among feminists, perceptions are no less polarized – sex workers are either fully empowered agents using their sexuality in unassailably positive ways, or victims of a job that degrades them by its very nature.

Most feminist dialogues about sex work sound more like monologues; defensiveness, mischaracterizations, and willful ignorance abound, making casualties of complexity and nuance.