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This is an interesting story but it's funny how people can have different responses to sex work. Carolyn Byrne has written a book about her experiences as a prostitute and comes to the conclusion that

“The difference between the ugliness of me not seeing the fry-guy [at McDonald’s] as a human being and a guy who gets ( Read more... )

I'm trying to think of an article topic for the next ProVision (Scarlet Alliance magazine).

The theme is 'phobia and discrimination' so the usual track to go down is how sex workers are discriminated against by the wider community etc.  I'll probably write something about discrimination of legal sex workers in Queensland - they've got legal ( Read more... )

There's been a bit of discussion lately around the forum traps about the animosities versus solidarities that exist between strippers and prostitutes.

So I've been checking out the stripper forums only to find a reinforcement of what I've experienced previously: Stripper culture generally doesn't seem to hold a lot of respect for sex workers and ( Read more... )

I wonder if they have 'peer education' for blood-suckers? Or if blood-drinking vampires are just sensible types to begin with?

I can now say that the modern world is peopled with the greatest bunch of wusses to grace history.  Lame in the extreme.

Modern vampires (that is, 'sanguine vampires') are committed to safe-sucking.

Of course they're not ( Read more... )

Saw this great image pasted on a construction board in West End (Brisbane Australia) a few weeks ago....it was a stencil in black and white of a nude woman in a circus pose - suspended by her waist, hanging upside down with long black locks of hair flowing down, breasts with prominent nipples thrust forward and legs in a pointed-toe pose. Her pubic ( Read more... )

Like most people, when I was younger I had a lot of questions and I also had a very enquiring mind so I went to university to learn - I’ve always been respectful of knowledge and I am impressed by intellect (maybe even an intellectual snob). At uni I did subjects like science and social science and philosophy and I learned a lot but they also ( Read more... )

The best way to sell your sex work memoir is to name a famous client and this becomes almost morally appropriate when that client is the writer of a television series wherein the only call girl character is belittled and told "you'd do anything for money". Thus I give you the story of Dimitra Ekmektsis and her book "Confessions of a High-Priced ( Read more... )

Don't you hate it when you are proved right ( Read more... )

I've been getting more pissed off lately with certain whores and other people at sex worker organisations who seem to think that it is beneath them to be associated with other sex workers who are working ILLEGALLY. I'm feeling nostalgic for the good old days when we were all criminals. I suppose this is what comes with the 2-tiered system, where ( Read more... )

It must be so hard to be a movie actor and do those love scenes where they are gazing into each other's eyes and touching each other, grabbing each other's hair and biting on each other's lips, and they've really got to make it look like they are madly in love. It's got to be convincing that this person is in a crazed passion. I often wonder ( Read more... )