Improv actress's dominatrix tale leaves crowd unsatisfied
2023-08-23
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Who attends a midday show by a professional financial dominatrix titled "Sex Job"? Lane Kwederis, once an improv comedian now a full-time sex worker, offers insights into her unique career. Financial domination, where men enjoy having women empty their accounts, is Lane's profession. Her show, a blend of comedy and exposé, grants a peek into her world's highs and lows. Th .....
Adults: how a sex play about boomers v millennials brings both together
2023-08-19
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Kieran Hurley's play "Adults" brilliantly highlights an intergenerational clash, fostering empathy between boomers (1945-1964) and millennials (1981-1996) in the audience. The story kicks off amusingly as a strawberry milkshake splatters on Iain (Conleth Hill), who's early at Zara's (Dani Heron) flat. Zara, a sex worker, runs her ethical business from home.
In his 60s, .....
I've funded my EdFringe show through sex work. I shouldn't have to do this
2023-08-18
elrond
In a plot twist worthy of its own dramatic production, I'm basically turning into a theatrical superhero this year, with an unconventional origin story involving both the stage and... let's say, "alternative income streams." Yep, I'm tapping into my inner thespian and my outer entrepreneurial spirit – and by entrepreneurial, I mean a tad risqué – to bring .....
Strippers Are Confirming We’re In A Recession
2023-05-09
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It seems that, like with lipstick sales and luxury hair treatments, the success of strip clubs is another marker of an economic downturn.
Recessions have historically been marked by a decrease in consumer spending, and this recession is no exception. As one Twitter user noted, her earnings have halved and the clubs are almost empty. Another commented, Strippers have been telling y’all .....
Victory for Edinburgh Strippers
2023-02-11
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Last year Edinburgh council voted to ban strip clubs. They set a nil level of strip and lap dancing clubs for the city. The owners and strippers took this to appeal, on Friday 10th February 2023 this was deemed illegal by the appeals judge.
Critics took their fight to the Court of Session in Edinburgh, where Lord Richardson decided on Friday that councillors had made the decision .....
People Urged to Get Tested as Cases of Gonorrhoea Rise - NHS Forth Valley
2023-01-10
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Local people across Forth Valley are being urged to practice safer sex and to get tested if they have been at risk following a large increase in cases of gonorrhoea.
In 2019, 164 cases of gonorrhoea were reported in Forth Valley however in 2022 more than 270 cases were confirmed with the biggest increase being amongst young people aged between 19 and 25.
Along with several other Health .....
Police raids do not result in trafficking victims being referred to support services.
2022-12-22
elrond
Where police claim that raids were made on brothels because there is trafficking occurring, in actual fact no referrals are made to support services in 7 out of 10 of these raids.
Researchers warn that police officers are misleading the public by claiming they have rescued trafficking victims in these raids. Police regularly conduct raids on brothels on the pretext they are saving traf .....
Decriminalising prostitution: Experience of New Zealand woman stuck in sex trade for years
2022-12-13
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An article from a Dr Jacci Stoyle , secretariat for the Cross-Party Group for Commercial Sexual Exploitation, published in the 'The Scotsman' an opinion piece. Obviously, her agenda is to criminalise clients and end all sex work. In her one-sided article she has incorrect facts, and rather selected bias on the examples she chooses. She is against decriminalisation of sex work .....
Edinburgh lap dancing ban: Sex work degrades every one of us, turning women
2022-12-04
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The court case brought by strippers against Edinburgh council is now in progress. The clubs were in court, arguing at a judicial review against the city council’s decision to ban strip clubs from next April. They were joined by the United Sex Workers (USW) union, whose lawyer, David Lynch, insisted that the ban would interfere with the dancers’ rights under the European Con .....
Increase in benefits can help protect women from sex work says Labour MP
2022-12-03
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A ban on strip clubs has been announced by Edinburgh Council, which says the venues disempower women.
But today the United Sex Workers union began a legal challenge of the decision.
The union says it would force over 100 women out of work and potentially into more dangerous situations.
We spoke to Labour MP Nadia Whittome, who’s been a long-standing campaigner for more suppor .....