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Scarlet Alliance fails in bid to gag playwright Peta Brady : Comments
By Matthew Holloway, published 21/8/2014Freedom of speech is surfacing as the most common casualty in the ongoing debate over human rights for prostituted people in Australia.
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Posted by plantagenet, Thursday, 21 August 2014 8:21:57 PM
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I am a member of Vixen & Scarlet Alliance & am thus part of the email lists & fb groups for both. I am also a street sex worker in St Kilda. Jane is a dear friend of mine. She discussed all this with the sex worker community & got unity before proceeding. Which none of you did, either for your Nordic Model - which sex workers universally oppose - or the demeaning term prostituted. I am disgusted.
Posted by Suffragettekitty, Friday, 22 August 2014 11:26:54 AM
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Also the Swedish Model endangers us MORE. CRIMINALISATION IS TGE REASON WE DO NOT FEEL SAFE REPORTING VIOLENCE AGAINST US & STIGMATISATION IS THE REASON PEOPLE FEEL SAFE COMMITTING IT! Rendering my income source liable to arrest does not help me! & I know this because it is already rendered liable to arrest!
I want full decriminalisation of all aspects of sex work & drugs. I am a St Kilda street worker & IV drug user. You DO NOT speak for me. Posted by Suffragettekitty, Friday, 22 August 2014 11:53:58 AM
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The author of the play is actually opposed to the Nordic Model Holloway is promoting here:
"It’s not like I’m out to get the mugs, either, because the mugs are their work,” says Brady. “It’s the bad mugs. I’m not out to say, ‘OK let’s go into some kind of Swedish law where they try and pick up the mug and take them away’, because that puts it more and more in the dark. The work’s not going to stop. It’s not going to go away." She also acknowledges that a lot of workers enjoy their job: "I know women who wish they were off the street and I know women who love it. That’s their choice and why should I judge that?" http://www.theweeklyreview.com.au/well-read/cover-story/8795-out-on-the-street/#.U_rIRKMZldg Posted by EC, Monday, 25 August 2014 3:26:56 PM
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I understand churchmen are some of the biggest customers of sex workers. Sex workers are doing society a favour, keeping churchman away from the kiddies...
Note from 1 minute 45 seconds into today's Training Film http://youtu.be/wOWn05b4p0I "the Catholic Church owned and operated brothels" for the money.
for the next 2 mins 30 seconds Bishops were also great customes.
Enjoy
Planta Pete