Hiya Rebel, it’s a brilliant article. I’m not a paying subscriber so haven’t commented at this time. I saw your very apt reply to Jenny who’d been an escort in the UK. Yes, sexual power over men -women have, when we’re young, something that they want - is in no way real power. Neither is the power over the very vulnerable naked male body. It’s having clothed equality, when male sexual desire for women is not being expressed, that counts.
Thank you, Jo! I am so disturbed by so many people using the term “sex worker” thinking they are being PC or enlightened or something, imagining that they are giving these victims agency. I would love to see your article everywhere.
Yes, it’s used to destigmatize and take the shame out of ending up in an ‘industry’ that should have stigma and shame attached to those who profit from it.
Hi Jo: I'm wondering if you read Chris Hedges' article:
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/lee-lakeman-and-the-whoredom-of-the/comments
I like it very much. Maybe you'd like to post your column in the comments there. His followers would like you (and I think you should have more!).
And feel free, as Caitlin Johnstone says, to share anything here, anywhere, with or without attribution x
Hiya Rebel, it’s a brilliant article. I’m not a paying subscriber so haven’t commented at this time. I saw your very apt reply to Jenny who’d been an escort in the UK. Yes, sexual power over men -women have, when we’re young, something that they want - is in no way real power. Neither is the power over the very vulnerable naked male body. It’s having clothed equality, when male sexual desire for women is not being expressed, that counts.
Thanks RN, I will do.
Thank you, Jo! I am so disturbed by so many people using the term “sex worker” thinking they are being PC or enlightened or something, imagining that they are giving these victims agency. I would love to see your article everywhere.
Yes, it’s used to destigmatize and take the shame out of ending up in an ‘industry’ that should have stigma and shame attached to those who profit from it.
Its the oldest profession in the world.... and comes in 3 offerings rent lease or buy...