Feminists Or Fascists?
For decades, every major battle in the area of sexuality has been won by progressives. The pill and the condom have long allowed women to enjoy their sexuality, and increasing numbers of women are...
View ArticleStrippers Are People Too
Following on from my recent post, Feminists Or Fascists?, this episode features in-depth interviews with two London strippers who have become political activists in order to protect their workplaces,...
View ArticleObject Respond
My recent blog post, Feminists Or Fascists?, generated a lot of interest, sharing, blog comments, and discussion elsewhere. The blog looked at British anti-sex groups that refer to themselves as...
View ArticleLap Dancing: The Guardian Fails Again
As I’ve reported previously, the high-end, high-quality journalism of the Guardian has an achilles heel: sexuality. Whenever this mysterious subject raises its head, the Guardian seems to feel that it...
View ArticlePole Dancing and the Olympics
Another article from our striptease correspondent Edie Lamort: a stripper’s view of the Olympics, pole dancing and “objectification”. It was a working weekend for me and it coincided with the Olympic...
View ArticleThe Strippers Strike Back
We welcome back our striptease correspondent, Edie Lamort, who takes a look at the history of the attacks on her trade in the UK, and the fightback by the strippers. The bell may be about to sound for...
View ArticleWhy I object to Object (and all the other prohibitionist groups)
Our striptease correspondent Edie Lamort takes on the anti-sex “feminists” who attack and want to censor what she does. Edie is now on Twitter and welcomes discussion and feedback. We live in an...
View ArticleMy First Strip
Once again, we are delighted to welcome our striptease correspondent Edie Lamort. You can follow her on Twitter here: @EdieLamort Something occurred to me last summer after phoning up a radio talk show...
View ArticlePorn in a Puritanical Age
As the EU Parliament prepares to vote to censor any content that might “demean women” (whatever that might mean), feminist and stripper Edie Lamort writes about the good side of porn, and the dangers...
View ArticleBlaming Women For Rape
This blog recently carried an article by Edie Lamort on the current moral panic about pornography; here’s another article on the subject. This is no accident – most people will have noticed a sharp...
View ArticleTuppy Owens: I Was Censored By Feminists
Since the 1960s, Tuppy Owens has been a sexual libertarian: she has campaigned tirelessly for sexual freedom and set up groups that fight for sexual rights for disabled people. As a woman fighting for...
View ArticleThe Guardian And The “Sexualisation” Panic
According to Wikipedia, a moral panic is defined as: “…an intense feeling expressed in a population about an issue that appears to threaten the social order.” Most societies experience panics on a...
View ArticleGifts For Strippers
An update from our Stripping Correspondent Edie Lamort, who is thinking about “objectification” and the gifts she receives from her fans. One of the reasons I find the term ‘objectification’ doesn’t...
View ArticleSex Work & Feminism, This-ism, That-ism, Ism! Ism! Ism!
Ev’rybody’s talkin’ ’bout Bagism, Shagism, Dragism, Madism, Ragism, Tagism This-ism, that-ism, ism ism ism All we are saying is give peace a chance In the 1980s, lefties like me dismissed John Lennon’s...
View ArticleMoral Panics: a useful political tool?
In 2010 I found myself in the middle of a moral panic, so began reading around the subject and watching how moral panics unfold. The panic was around East End strip pubs where I worked and that had...
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