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For fun I'm making a list of songs out there about sexworkers*. So far I've got:

See Line Woman - Nina Simone (George Bass)
"Wears silk stockings with golden seams...make a man lose his head...wiggle wiggle turn like a cat, wink at a man and he wink back...Black dress on, for a thousand dollars she wail and she moan.."

Roxanne - The Police

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Sally Mann is a contemporary photographer repeatedly charged as a professional provocateur with a camera. Her use of her children as subjects has been called pornographic and she has been threatened with the closure of exhibitions and deprivation of maternal rights.


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Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven
- Jean Paul (1783-1825)

"'Let me tell you a legend about God,' Morgo said. 'In the beginning he created an egg, a huge egg witha creature inside it. God tried to break the eggshell open to let the creature - the original living creature - out. He couldn't. But the creature which He had made had a sharp beak, constructed for just such a task, and it chipped its way out of ( Read more... )

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The neighbots are restless.