10 October 2008

News Bits (Friday)

Does sex sell products?

Women's rights best way to fight AIDS in Uganda -- and everywhere. Yay! Someone is getting it!

Teenage girl is a child pornographer for taking photos of herself. By that rational, every sex worker can also be arrested for trafficking themselves if they travel.

Coffee table book on the history of porn: 1969-2009.

Max Hardcore sentenced (no news there), more disturbingly a woman who ran a fictional story site was sentenced. Granted, the site dealt in the abuse of children, but there were no pictures (or models).

Introducing the $1000 lap dance. Finally.

OMG! Strip club operates in neighborhood and it doesn't go to hell in a handbasket!

"Gaps" in sex trafficking "enforcement" in Minesota. It's not "enforcement" it's just business-as-usual where sex workers are the only criminals in illegal sex work. And any actual trafficking victim is still considered a criminal.

New movie about child trafficking: for labor, sex and warfare. It's a "seat-of-your-pants rally for a modern abolitionist movement, boosted by celebrity activists Daryl Hannah, Ashley Judd and Julia Ormond." We need some celebrity activists.

Journalist bothered by salicious headline writing in the death of a young woman. Thank you.

1 comments:

Aspasia said...

"for labor, sex and warfare. It's a "seat-of-your-pants rally for a modern abolitionist movement, boosted by celebrity activists Daryl Hannah, Ashley Judd and Julia Ormond." We need some celebrity activists."

Both Helen Mirren and Monica Bellucci have expressed genuine pro-sex worker statements. Helen is working on a movie about a madam of a Nevada brothel. Monica has played prostitutes several times in her career.

She said, ""As a woman I am so curious about prostitutes because of the idea that they know men better than you. Also, it's such a strange way to live. But at the same time there are prostitutes who just want to be prostitutes, and this is this woman, nobody pushed her to do it. She's a prostitute because she wants to be a prostitute. It's her philosophy of life."" (Emphasis added) She gets it.