Strippers 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 ArticlePornstars (Audio)
Having encountered many myths and scare stories about the evils of pornography, I decided to ask the people whose voices don’t tend to be heard: the women in the industry. This podcast features...
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 ArticlePosing As Progressives
It’s been one of those weeks when I fall out with some of my, usually friendly, followers. When you’re a leftish political blogger, there are safe things to write about, and things you shouldn’t...
View ArticleConservative Feminism and the Right to Offend
This week, the fight to censor British media and art – even more than is done already – took a bizarre new turn, as pro-censorship “feminist” groups Object and UK Feminista launched an attack against...
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 ArticleDear Co-op …
A letter from Edie Lamort, feminist and sexual freedom activist, to the Co-operative Group about their latest censorship decision. Just over five years ago I bought a flat in London SE1. One of my...
View ArticleWhy Don’t Women Hunt? Sex Work: The New Civil Rights Struggle
Recent debates about sex and sexuality, in the context of moral panics and attempts at censorship, have revealed a lack of understanding among “experts” of the core subject itself: human sexuality....
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...
View ArticleOMG! Miley Cyrus is Racist!!
I should start by stating that Miley Cyrus is not racist. This is just the latest moron meme in a series of increasingly moronic attacks on Cyrus from the Guardianista ex-liberal tendency. Cyrus isn’t...
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