Being Amber Rhea

links for 2009-02-16

• In God We Tryst: Sex work and the public opinion
  "You don't hear about the ones that fund their masters or even doctorate degrees with the money, or the ones who save wisely and end up with a paid off house and car before age 30. You never hear about the ones that are happy being escorts and do it long term, or the ones who are successful at it. You hear about the ones that have some kind of tragic failure or succumb to addiction or depression. Why? Because if we talked about the people who are HAPPY with sex work, who are in it voluntarily then it would become less taboo. The people against sex work don't want to hear it. They don't want to believe, or even face the fact that there are some people who are not mentally ill, who don't have daddy issues, who aren't on drugs that actually ENJOY sex work. They especially don't want to admit that these women could have healthy relationships outside of work, raise normal children. That these women could be their friend or neighbour."
  (tags: sexwork stereotypes)
• Sex Is Not A Public Nuisance | Sex In The Public Square
  "The more relevant questions are: Why is sexual activity – the buying and selling of pornography, the accepting of money for sex – being defined as a public nuisance in the first place? And, what does it mean that simply liking pornography and being in a porn shop is enough to make one the target of a prostitution sting?"

  Elizabeth hits the nail on the head, as usual.

  (tags: sex sexuality law society news newyork crime porn)
• Girls sexually assaulted on school bus « What a crazy random happenstance
  "Demonizing these boys does not help anybody. It ignores the broader social situation that they grew up in, it ignores all of the rape apology that’s in our culture, and blaming it on the parents is also ridiculous. I love my parents but there were definitely times where their views, colored by news reports and buying into rape culture portrayed the message that some girls 'ask for it' and that there are 'good girls' and 'bad girls'. How many times does this have to happen before we can stop claiming it’s individual cases and bad parenting and realize there’s something more fucked up about our society in general that helps keep this going."
  (tags: assault violence society men women abuse feminism)
• BBC NEWS | Europe | Anne Frank guardian reaches 100
  "The last surviving member of the small group who helped hide the Dutch Jewish girl Anne Frank and her family from the Nazis has turned 100 years old."
  (tags: history news interesting annefrank)

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