The Sex Myth begins with an anecdote. Dr Brooke Magnanti (aka Belle de Jour) describes a phase in her childhood when she and her friends were in competition to discover the ‘truth’ about the naked body of the opposite sex. The girls were particularly inventive, and would look under cubicle doors in the boys’ toilets, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Sex work’
Bad Science: A Review of The Sex Myth By Brooke Magnanti
Posted: May 13, 2012 in bisexuality, FeminismTags: Brooke Magnanti, Mark Simpson, review, Sex, Sex work, The Sex Myth
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Write Less, Listen More
Posted: January 23, 2012 in Freedom of Speech, IdentityTags: Freedom In A Puritan Age, Sex work
Write Less, Listen More is a piece of advice given by Megan Morgenson, to people who write about sex work without having much or any experience of actually doing it. Her post here is really worth a read: http://meganmorgenson.blogspot.com/2012/01/frustration-of-non-sex-workers-wanting.html?spref=tw It was in response to a piece at Freedom In A Puritan Age here: http://www.freedominapuritanage.co.uk/?p=281&cpage=1#comment-560 The [...]
This post, for once, is not all about me, me, me! I have been following this amazing project online, called The Red Umbrella Project. It is a forum for sex workers to write and tell their stories, both online and in performance, facilitated by the absolutely amazing campaigner, writer and activist, Audacia Ray. Have a [...]
Samantha Rocks! In defence of SATC
Posted: May 27, 2010 in FeminismTags: Samantha, SATC, Sex work, Sexism, Sexuality, Women
The second Sex In The City Movie has just been released, and judging by my little corner of the interwebz it seems to be causing something of a furore. I keep being sent links to article after article, blog after blog, all wailing about how utterly awful it is. If the majority of the (feminist [...]
