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Harlot's Parlour : Reclaim The Night (For Cis Women Only) and the London Cis Feminist Network

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:04:22 +0000

Personally, speaking as a cis feminist who can't speak for trans women or indeed sex workers, I think it's gonna take an awful lot more than a great big cheer for trans women to even begin trusting cis feminists at all, let alone at these events. RTN have failed big time for trans women and sex workers too and cis feminists and radical feminists have shunned them in the past, I think personally they need to prove themselves before we're all standing shoulder to shoulder. Hell, I'm cis, white and not a sex worker - I've got a lot of privilege, and even I don't trust these events.

Harlot's Parlour : "Give Prositution the Red Light ?" - A debate in Glasgow 24/09/09

Mon, 5 Oct 2009 19:18:11 +0000

The following comment is by BurlesqueHoney - Eeek, just realised only the first part of my ramblings got posted lol. Anyhow, I agree with Laura that sadly the great majority of debates on prostitution focus on the ‘plight’ of street workers and worst-case scenarios completely ignoring the vast majority of ladies that work self-employed and run a thriving business. Further legislation appears to be entirely unnecessary as if properly enforced; existing laws already deal with crimes such as sex trafficking or sexual slavery. However, any rational discussion on trafficking sadly tends to give way to hysteria, totally ignoring the fact there is a brisk sex tourism where ladies tend to come to the UK and other Western countries entirely voluntarily for the sole purpose to work in the sex trade. Some have a legal status to work and reside in the UK others don’t. These sex migrant workers tend to choose high volume work as a response to low wages and lack of jobs in their home countries. However, their presence appears to greatly skewer and distort studies. I strongly disagree that these ladies are victims and being exploited unless you want to take into context the economical situation of far lower per capita income in their own countries. Generally, I can ignore the preposterous drivel of Ms Bindel and her ilk, however, I resent if she styles herself as some feminist icon and presumes she is actually equipped to comment on our profession. Yes it is a profession and undoubtedly among the oldest. Its social status might have fluctuated enormously over history but some of us are proud of the fact that in the past compared to the general position of women, some harlots held positions of enormous influence and enjoyed a lot more independence. As a mature woman in my forties educated to post graduate level and speaking 4 languages, I insist on being afforded some courtesy and respect, especially from so-called feminists. I am well equipped to make decisions about what career to pursue. Being voluptuous to boot it is the ultimate empowerment to flout society’s stereotypes of successful prostitutes since I make a decent living while contributing to the economy. I can freely set my hours and methods of working and enjoy the ultimate luxury of a lot of free time to pursue creative interests. So do not paint me as a victim!

Harlot's Parlour : A Prostitute I am......

Mon, 5 Oct 2009 15:34:34 +0000

Cos this is more fun you fool! ;)

Harlot's Parlour : A Prostitute I am......

Mon, 5 Oct 2009 06:27:02 +0000

Another comment like that and I'll block your IP. People are free to criticise and disagree as much as they want, but I'd sooner an intelligent debate. This comment is very immature.

Harlot's Parlour : "Give Prositution the Red Light ?" - A debate in Glasgow 24/09/09

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 16:34:38 +0000

Why don't YOU write about the debate as well? I'll link it or you can even post it on this blog. I can't see how you and Douglas arguing in this thread is adding anything to ANY debate. In fact, it's a bit of a distraction.

Harlot's Parlour : "Give Prositution the Red Light ?" - A debate in Glasgow 24/09/09

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 12:21:48 +0000

I appreciate that you don't like Douglas, but can comments please stay focused on Laura's post? I have to say I'm not happy with these tactics and I've seen them before - in December and January I spent a lot of time reading and researching Jacqui Smith's proposals and radical feminsts ignored the whole lot and twisted every discussion around to the IUSW. I'm not having that on this blog.

The Jaded Hippy : Stay classy PETA.

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:12:52 +0000

I keep on thinking they can't get any worse. I keep on leaving comments on people's blogs saying "They can't get any worse" and, yep, they keep getting worse. FFS.

Loserdust. : On viewing smut

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 21:42:21 +0000

Sweet. We'd be an awesome married couple.

Loserdust. : Wit and Wisdom VII

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:53:44 +0000

I get your point, I'm just thinking how typical of them it is to advocate a law lumping in women with animals. They've done it many times with children, so this really is a new low for them.

Loserdust. : Wit & Wisdom V

Sun, 5 Jul 2009 10:59:28 +0000

I know. Call her on it though and she'll call it silencing. She's a real piece of work.

Loserdust. : Don\'t assume the right to a 101

Fri, 3 Jul 2009 09:06:13 +0000

Done! Thank you for pointing this out, I didn't think.

Womanist Musings : Punishing Female Strippers To Make A Point

Thu, 2 Jul 2009 11:10:58 +0000

That was horrific.

Loserdust. : Don\'t assume the right to a 101

Wed, 1 Jul 2009 11:02:13 +0000

No bother. Hopefully it might help some people.

Loserdust. : Don\'t assume the right to a 101

Wed, 1 Jul 2009 11:01:33 +0000

Anna!! *runs*

Loserdust. : "He's hot. He's sexy. And he's dead."

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:51:39 +0000

I got it from New York Fashion. I used to work in a clothes shop so had to know what was in, what was out, all of that so I used to get all the fashion mags. These sorts of themes are common (as I'm sure you're aware), death, suffering (mental suffering especially), that sort of thing. But the Quinn is the worst, most explicit I've seen. There was an advert associated with Pepsi last year that was pretty fucked (I wrote about it here), but that turned out to be a hoax I think. I'm gonna post more on these themes in the media later or tomorrow definitely.

Loserdust. : Power & Het Sex

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:14:15 +0000

I think saying no one did it before porn is such an insanely stupid thing to say. I mean, really fucking stupid. And yep, agree completely, it's all been done before.

Loserdust. : Smut Saturday!

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 13:10:15 +0000

Thank you :) Out on the lash = out drinking :)

Loserdust. : Caroline Flint asked for it.

Sun, 7 Jun 2009 14:01:25 +0000

I like the top photo too. But yeah, I mean, the pics were taken a month or so ago and it's like they speak for her entire career. Stupid.

Loserdust. : The Wit & Wisdom...

Sat, 6 Jun 2009 15:47:32 +0000

That's beautiful, belle. :) Ah, I love that. Oh, and "renting women's insides to spill their fluids into like renting a port-a-potty" .... yeah, no comment.

Loserdust. : Fit Bloke Friday

Fri, 5 Jun 2009 19:13:18 +0000

I know. Last week, I genuinely wasn't in the mood for blokes, but previous weeks... well, the NSFW blokes had to be 'collected up' as it were. Spoiled for choice for NSFW women as you can well imagine.