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A lot of people have asked me what I thought about Belle de Jour’s outing of herself recently.1 Now, unless you’ve been living in a cave, you are probably aware that Dr. Brooke Magnanti revealed last week that she was the person behind the pseudonymous prostitute that captured everyone’s attention with her blog, Diary of [...]
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Nathan Creitz, over at Church Ethos, posted an article concerning the legalization of prostitution a few days ago. He was examining the issue and offering a “solution” to the “problem.”
His assessment suffers from at least two critical flaws, however. First, much of his information comes from web sites run by the anti-prostitution crowd. Despite widespread [...]
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I am a sex worker and I am not ashamed of what I do. My parents and most of my friends don’t know that I make money selling sex, however. When people ask me why I don’t tell the people I am close to about how I earn my living, I have to explain that [...]
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In case you haven’t heard, Eliot Spitzer is back in the public limelight. I guess he feels it’s “safe” to come out of hiding now that the furor over his being caught with his zipper down has subsided. Apparently, that extends to his family as well – he says he’s been “forgiven” by his wife [...]
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Many of you keep up with me on my Twitter account. If you were watching Thursday night, you saw me live Tweet the prelude to and aftermath from one of my appointments. I had toyed with the idea of live-tweeting within the appointment itself, but I just couldn’t bring myself to ask that of a [...]
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I had a contact emergency last night. I got a sudden pain in my right eye, as though a hot speck of sand had landed in it. I was just sitting there watching TV and all of the sudden, bang! Searing pain! I had to take my contact out right there, right then. Fortunately, I [...]
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December 17 is International Day To End Violence Against Sex Workers.
The National March For Sex Workers Rights is
part of International Day To End Violence Against Sex Workers.
If you’re in Washington, D.C., come out and show your support!
National March for Sex Workers’ Rights [...]
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Ren posted an excellent piece up on her blog about the concept of agency a few weeks ago. Agency, succinctly stated, is the ability to make rational, informed, thoughtful decisions for oneself, free of coercion. You will typically hear this term bandied about when it comes to the subject of abortion and [...]
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