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Prostitution Law and the Death of Whores, in @Jacobin Magazine 26 Aug 2013 | 02:20 pm
This essay ran first in Jacobin and was picked up by Salon and given a different title. Comments on the different slants to come soon. Prostitution Law and the Death of Whores Laura Agustín, Jacobin, ...
Fallen Women: persistence of an image 12 Aug 2013 | 12:54 pm
A new film about staging La Traviata is using the most old-fashioned and clichéd image in its publicity: that of Violetta on the floor in the classic pose of Fallen Women. Yes, I know the opera and I ...
The irrationality of prostitution laws 5 Aug 2013 | 01:15 pm
Everyone thinks they know what prostitution is, but conversations quickly break down over what gets included and what doesn’t. Is it prostitution if you only do hand jobs? Phone sex? Webcam performanc...
Cry with trafficked women: Colonial prurience and 3-star hotels 1 Aug 2013 | 01:13 pm
I’ve been ill a great deal this year and for the past month bowed down by a death, but the imminence of August cranked me up sufficiently to vent my now annual disgust at tours from the US that take w...
Remembering Judge Himel: Bold assertions and inflammatory language not useful to the court 19 Jun 2013 | 01:20 pm
Last week I spent most of a day watching the Supreme Court’s hearing of arguments on Canadian prostitution law, the upshot of four years of legal battling since the Ontario Superior Court of Justice’s...
My Erotic Award as Campaigner is the win for a reasonable point of view 3 Jun 2013 | 12:30 pm
Award to Laura Agustín, Photo by Charlotte Cooper In the evening’s opening act a woman emerges from a plastic Chinese bag – those big plaid ones, but still, not easy to fold oneself into. With her hea...
Intellectual influence (or grooming, if you feel paranoid) 23 May 2013 | 01:25 pm
Recently I was accused of ‘academic grooming’ by someone disappointed that everyone who writes and talks about sex does not agree with her. The idea of grooming isn’t developed but interests me. It me...
Video of Sex Work as Work: some ideas on labour policy and organising 19 May 2013 | 04:13 pm
Last month I spoke at the Dublin Anarchist Bookfair, held in Liberty Tower on the Liffey. There was some resistance to my insistence on sticking to the programme from a couple of audience members duri...
Law against buying sex: Yawn, not even on the timeline 16 May 2013 | 01:29 pm
Who cares about the law against buying sex? City, a free newspaper like Metro, ran a page recently on sex laws in Sweden. 17 steps to a softer vision of sex A lot has happened on the sex front in the ...
Naked musings on borders, illegality and personal identity 12 May 2013 | 12:53 pm
Last week at Gatwick airport, after asking me several apparently random questions presumably intended to trip me up, the official wagged my passport at me frustratedly. I knew what he wanted to ask bu...
