Madam Becky Adams talking on brothels

On the 15the Feb Madam Becky Adams gave this talk on brothel keeping at the London All Ears Story Telling. Madam Becky Adams has spent the last 20 years running brothels in the Home Counties. Convent educated, her story of middle class prostitution, police harrasement and fleeing the Uk to pick walnuts in France is [...]

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Former pornography actresses sacked from jobs at schools

Two stories a couple of weeks apart about former porn performers being outed as having once upon a time appeared on video while shagging, and having been outed, been sacked from jobs in schools. One of them was from the USA, the other from Canada. Both are remarkably similar in content. The more recent one, [...]

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Mumsnet & Happy Hookers

By Claire of Bristol Taken from http://bbwclaire.wordpress.com I have been visiting Mumsnet again. I really shouldn’t go there so often because they’re guaranteed to get my blood boiling – but it’s a little bit …well, like picking at a scab, I suppose. You know you shouldn’t, it’s going to bleed, it will probably be painful [...]

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Radical feminism and MacDworkinism – reverberations in our legal system: Part 1

This is in two parts – or even longer!! Let’s just see how this develops. I am tackling this in sections so that the information can be put over as clearly as I can. The first part is going to deal with Andrea Dworkin and possibly a little on Catharine Mackinnon and their brand of [...]

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WHEN IS AN INQUIRY LIKE A TRAIN?

I would like to introduce a new writer to harlots. Morven has been a fan of Harlots for some time and has written this interesting piece questioning the impartiality of government research and of those who are awarded the tender to do that research. It is from an historic perspective very obvious how governments have [...]

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WE ALL HAVE CHOICES…..

The question of choice. How often have we been told that women (men rarely mentioned) turn to sex work because they have limited choices or are forced into sex work because of poverty. This is an excuse used not only by the rescue industry but also by some sex worker rights activists. It is an [...]

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For Prostitutes, Is Murder an Occupational Hazard?

I was alerted to this article by a face book friend. It poses a serious question that seems to be almost accepted as fact by sectors of society and certainly by some legislators. Although the article once again talks primarily about limited choices for sex workers which is an idea I personally have some issues [...]

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“WOULD THE REAL SEX WORKER PLEASE STAND UP”!

I would like to ask a question. “Would the real sex worker please stand up”. The reason I ask is because both for the enemies of sex worker rights and some on the left with in sex work activism this taxing question apparently requires a definite answer. The arguments primarily revolve around sex worker unionisation, [...]

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U.S. State Department Response to UN Human Rights Council Working Group UPR Report

The US Government had to respond to a number of questions on its human rights record.  They responded with this statement on prostitution.  Will this mean sex workers can get tested for STDs in the US without fear of arrest We agree that no one should face violence or discrimination in access to public services [...]

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State has no obligation to protect prostitutes, Ottawa to argue at appeal

I was alerted to this article by a friend on face book. It is an article in the “Globe and Mail” . Reporting on the appeal by the Canadian federal government to be heard in June against the judgement made last year that Canada’s anti sex worker legislation placed sex workers in danger. I find [...]

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