Compare and Contrast
Leda and the Swan is a story from Greek Mythology in which Zeus takes the form a swan and seduces (or possibly rapes) Leda. Compare… During the Renaissance their union was depicted in potentially...
View Article“Do you wanna see me do the shimmy again?”
The latest prohibitionist to come to my attention is one Sandra White, SNP MSP for Glasgow Kelvin. Ms White, it seems, has a bit of a bee in her bonnet about lap dancing clubs. In fact she dislikes...
View ArticleYoung love
As we know from that bit of the media which isn’t still raking over the Andrew Mitchell non-story and the waste of time which was the Liberal Democrat party conference, a 15-year-old girl has eloped to...
View ArticleOh Daddy, you know that eBook you bought for me…*
The morality police achieved another victory in their battle to return us to the days of covered table legs yesterday when high street retailer WH Smith (SMWH) took their entire website offline. Why...
View ArticleDr. Wollaston and the Case of the Smartphone Ban
Known bansturbator Dr Sarah Wollaston was reported by the BBC yesterday (before the story was subjected to some rewriting) as apparently being in favour of banning teenagers from using smartphones in...
View ArticleJust do(n’t record) it
UK Law: Legal: Consensual sex between people aged 16 and over. Illegal: Taking pictures of people aged 16 and 17 that can be considered sexual in nature as, because they are under 18, the pictures are,...
View Article“Sit on my face…”
The Authority for Television On Demand (ATVOD) is the not so new UK regulator (quango) for on-demand programming and the reason for its existence can be traced back to how the UK.gov decided to...
View ArticleFriday 13th
Every Friday 13th Maggie McNeill asks people to speak out in support of the decriminalisation of sex work and activities surrounding it. Those who have read this blog for long enough or follow me on...
View ArticleLying with numbers (Kat Banyard Edition)
In a rather desperate screed that is apparently an extract from a book that she is flogging, sex work abolitionist Kat Banyard suggests that: On average, a woman was paid for sex by 76 men each week....
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