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• Nina Hartleys "Pornified Nation" Interview: Why Shes Porns Most Eloquent Female Advocate

  
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  I know that I often sing the praises of Nina Hartley a lot here, because no other porn performer has been so eloquent an advocate for female sexuality or for sexual entertainment as she has been for the past 30 years. In this interview that she did for Jordan Owens newly crafted YouTube series Pornified Nation , ...
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• Retrolicious–Mad Men 6.7: “For Immediate Release”

  
  Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture — Authority: 627
  Hosted by Tami Winfrey Harris and Andrea Plaid A Judas kiss, if we’ve ever seen one. It’s a minute after Dr. King’s assassination, and the Sterling Cooper Draper Price gang are back to business as usual: Don does his usual dick-swinging; Pete fails in coming for folks far more grown than he; Roger ...
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• [link] “What do you think about his choice?”: uncovering the men who visit prostitutes

  
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  This link (the Invisible Men Project) makes for some really upsetting reading. The Newstateman’s piece (also linked) mentions that research on, and discussion of, sex work has often been criticised for omitting the voices of the workers themselves. The Invisible Men Project does nothing to redress that imbalance. ...
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• Find What is the Connection between Sex and Weight Loss?

  
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  Could heart- hammer fun between the sheets help you get thinner quickly? Certainly yes! But the reasons an active sex life encourages weight loss go beyond its potential of burning calories. They strike the core of this ultimate mind and body experience. What the heck are we talking about? Consider these way sex ...
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• Good-time girls and other non-professionals taking money for sex

  
  Border Thinking on Migration, Trafficking and Commercial Sex — Authority: 115
  Formalised money-sex exchanges get the attention and conflict: debates about exploitation and violence. Lots of other exchanges are ignored, a line is drawn between commercial and non-commercial sex. But that line is imaginary. Many people who expect to be compensated for their company will never call themselves sex ...
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• Norwegian Hege Grostad 27 years old who sells sex to finance her studies says it is not prostitution

  
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  Sex-purchase law has made the situation of sex workers in Norway much worse than it should be. Girls are chased from hotel to hotel, and pursued by the police even if they are not doing anything illegal. Ms Hege who says she is an escort girl wants the law against selling of sex and pimping [...]
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• Feminism and Slut Shaming in MadMen

  
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  I’ve been watching MadMen since its inception. Yes, I see the show as a way of having discourse about current issues within the safety of a period drama set now in 1968. I’ve felt that the show could be more interesting in examining social issues, which it does do, but I just find its treatment of them to be ...
  3 weeks ago

• A delightful interview on KALWs Out in the Bay!!!

  
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• ‘Anti-Prostitution Pledge’ is hindering world progression

  
  Daily Titan — Authority: 150
  Since the reversal of the global gag rule, it seemed as though the United States was on a path to ensuring and promoting women’s safe sexual health. However, with the Supreme Court presiding over a case known as the “Anti-Prostitution Pledge,” it appears as though our government has taken two steps backwards. ...
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• Money Issues That Mess With Your Relationship

  
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  So, you ask, whats cash got to do with love? Everything. But experts say its not how much either of you has -- its how you deal with it that determines if youll be happily merged. He wants to combine dough; you want some financial independence.
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• I Love Your Work

  
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  I Love Your Work , released today by Jonathan Harris , is an interactive documentary about the private lives of nine women who make lesbian porn. It consists of 2,202 10-second video clips, taken at five-minute intervals over 10 consecutive days. The full interactive website is limited to just 10 viewers per day, ...
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• [link] Sex work as any other job

  
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  “ I wouldn’t do your filing for free either” – sex work as any other job On the:  The FWSA Blog : It is difficult to add anything new to the debate surrounding the ethical & legal status of sex work or prostitution (the very terminology one uses is heavily freighted with political meaning). The ...
  3 weeks ago

• [image] But are things what they seem? (BBC reporting.)

  
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  I’ve been annoyed by this “cartoon” in the BBC magazine all morning. This is a new way of reporting the news on the BBC it seems (or at least new to me) and while I don’t have an issue with the medium, I do have concerns about the tagline of the story. One victim’s account of being kidnapped and ...
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• I am not Michael O’Leary, and other meditations on public performance

  
  Border Thinking on Migration, Trafficking and Commercial Sex — Authority: 115
  Photo of Laura Agustín by Workers Solidarity Movement (Ireland) Doing public gigs exposes one to all sorts of comment, some nice and some not so nice. At University College Dublin I sketched out the ideas in Sex at the Margins – a book that began in the early 90s with me listening to Dominican villagers, ten [...] ...
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• An Unlikely Union: Julie Bindel on a World of Pimps, Punters and Workers

  
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  This extremely important article by  Julie Bindel  describes how a sex workers union (the IUSW) which was founded by idealistic academics with the goal of ending prostitution was taken over by pimps and used to promote their sexual exploitation of other people. To read click here:  IUSWGaze This article was ...
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• Paying for Sex in Vegas and More Advice Column Ennui

  
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  Among life’s many decisions — should I wear a hat? would it really be that bad to use an expired condom? should I get a rabies shot for petting that raccoon? should I do my taxes? cake or pie? — “should I pay a professional to give my genitals a good airing out?” is quite possibly the most self-effacing (and ...
  4 weeks ago

• Who knew? Amber Dawn and I discuss sex work, surviving abuse, cycles of violence, the perils and potentials of queer community-building – and, of course, our new books – in The Advocate!!!

  
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• GF Reads: How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler’s Memoir by Amber Dawn

  
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  by Alicia Costa I first stumbled on Amber Dawn a few years ago when I by chance picked up her first novel Sub Rosa (2010) at the local library. It’s a fantasy based on a band of magical prostitutes in an alternate universe. It was one of those books that have stayed with me: one of the most stunning pieces of ...
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• [quote] The brothel worker: ‘I regret not working in the sex trade as soon as I got here’

  
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  “ Sex work had transformed Ah Ling’s life. She had paid off all her debts within a year and was earning £600 a week. Her current aim was to pay for a new house back home for her family, and return after two more years of sex work. At the same time, she admitted there was a high price to pay. “I have to ...
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• The prohibition of things: Deterrence, Punishment and Rescue

  
  Border Thinking on Migration, Trafficking and Commercial Sex — Authority: 115
  The idea of a government outlawing activities accomplishes only one thing clearly: It tells citizens that government has decided something is Wrong and now outlaws doing it. Sending A Message is the principle act behind the Swedish state’s promotion of its law against buying sex, and it is the principle act behind ...
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