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Showing posts with label sex work. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sex work. Show all posts
Friday, September 27, 2024

review of Eve Was Shamed by Helena Kennedy

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I am reading ' Eve Was Shamed ' by Helena Kennedy QC. She is one of Britain's most distinguished lawyers and public figures. In ...
Tuesday, July 9, 2024

election results in central Bristol

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It just goes to show how little the Nordic model is important to the British public. We've just had a general election and it wasn't...
Wednesday, April 24, 2024

books about sex work

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I have just finished reading a new book about sex work called Unashamed : A memoir by Elizabeth G. I'm not going to review it although I...
Wednesday, March 27, 2024

review of Feminism by Deborah Cameron

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This is an introduction to feminist theory and shows both sides of the debate. There is one chapter, Sex, that is of interest to me. She con...
Friday, March 22, 2024

my trip to London

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A couple of years ago I had a day trip to London. I wrote about that. On Monday I went to London again only this time I had booked a hotel. ...
Sunday, May 28, 2023

my day trip to Blackpool

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I had been intending to return to Blackpool and I did so on Friday. It was perfect weather for a seaside trip, sunny but not hot. I wrote ab...

my trip to Amsterdam

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I have been to Amsterdam twice this year. I didn't go just to see sex workers. I also went to try cannabis for the first time. You might...
Saturday, December 31, 2022

my review of the year 2022

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It has been a good year for me. I set out to limit myself to one paid-for sexual encounter each month. I have had more than twelve though. U...
Thursday, August 11, 2022

New Zealand decriminalisation model

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I have just been reading a blog written by a sex worker in New Zealand. I think that what she has to say is so important I want to repeat it...
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Monday, August 8, 2022

more than two types of sex work

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In my last post and the one before I pointed out the prohibitionist argument heavily dependent on the idea that there is a minority of sex w...
Tuesday, July 26, 2022

review of The Case Against the Sexual Revolution by Louise Perry

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Chapter 7 of this book is about prostitution and I will limit myself to commenting on this. I will deal with three points that she makes. Ot...
Friday, July 8, 2022

2 new films about sex work

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There are two new films that are about sex work. Both are positive about it. The first is  Good Luck to You, Leo Grande starring Emma Thomp...
Sunday, July 3, 2022

my day trip to London

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Encouraged by my pleasurable day trips to Sheffield I decided to make a day trip to London. Sheffield is two hours on the train from Liverpo...
Saturday, June 18, 2022

the Scottish government and the Nordic model

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I found out recently that the Scottish government refuses to fund any women's sector organisation unless they accept that prostitution i...