[lbo-talk] First cooperative brothel, for 2010 Olympics, or going for the gold?

[bitch at pulpculture.org]

organized was the wrong word choice. most sex workers aren't organized at 
all. not to mention that most of the people who denouce the word "sex 
workers" and "sex work" are almost always reactionaries with dubious 
motives -- like Arial Levy who seems to think it was the invention of the 
evil academic feminists. It wasn't. Or, the radical feminists in _Radically 
Speaking_ who denounce the term "sex work" as somehow legitimating it as 
just another form of work. Better to call it "pornstitution" they think. 
They're arguments are rather loathesome particularly when confronted with 
the fact of real women, riht in front of their face, the prostitutes the 
radical feminists are trying to save, who object to their word 
"pornstitution" and want to be called "sex workers". The fucking assholes, 
in the name of saving sex workers, blithely ignore their existence and 
their demands to be called what they've asked others called them. Some 
feminism, that. It's really quite shocking to watch them in action: right 
in front of their face are the women they're trying to "save" and they push 
them aside because they are women who aren't behaving the way they want. 
The author of that paper, Jo Doezema, a lesbian sex worker in Sweden (IIRC) 
has a fabulous paper on the phenom of "saving brown prostitutes" who 
invariably turn out not to want to be saved by the radical and liberal 
feminists so keen to "protect" them and who turn out to advocate policies 
that these radical feminists simply can't abide. So, they simply ignore 
their actual activism on their own behalf and go off in search of the 
pornstitutes who tell 'em what they want  to hear.

fucking pathetic.

that's why I wanted to know when Doss was mugged.

At 08:19 PM 10/11/2007, Joseph Catron wrote:
>Perhaps, but how many unorganized strippers want to be called by a
>term that also (if not primarily) refers to prostitutes?
>
>I can't believe it's many.
>
>On 10/11/07, bitch at pulpculture.org <bitch at pulpculture.org> wrote:
>
> > also, because that's what organized sex workers want to be called, asshole.
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