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Originally Posted by Loxly
Very good overview. But she never discussed her rates. LOL
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"She" is a reporter not a sex worker. Yeah, I know that was supposed to be funny, not everything really lends itself to just laughing it off as unimportant. We are all engaged in illegal criminal activities here, buyers and sellers, and it might be useful to keep that in mind. This is 49 minutes of pretty intense discussion of an important part of all our lives. If you don't think the legal situation of the market for sex is important try getting yourself arrested buying and see what that does to your life.
I think we all are about at the stage where gay people were about a generation ago: hiding in the shadows, denying we do any of that stuff, that we know anything about it or anyone who does, waiting to be terrorized by any cop who wants to relieve his boredom. Yeah, I am a bit disillusioned by the APD, which not only has a Vice Unit, it has a Human Trafficking Unit too, ever since the Chief revealed he really does not care what the citizens think but only about "his officers".
Anyway, in the interview there is a lot about the Swedish or "get the John" model,
anti-traffickers who assert that all sex workers are trafficked whether they know it or not and therefore have to rescued from themselves, at gun point and in handcuffs if necessary and to whom anyone who disagrees is a "pimp".
The discussion about whether sex works is best understood as work or sexuality is interesting as well. It might depend on whether the personal "you" is providing it or "consuming" it.
The author, Melissa Gira Grant,'s book is available through Amazon as an Kindle book. It's called
Playing the Whore, The Work of Sex Work.
http://www.amazon.com/Playing-Whore-...of+Sex+Work%2C
Thanks EFN for the link. It's the most interesting thing I have seen on the site in weeks.
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