“I don’t know any woman whose own personal sexuality drives her to be with a succession of strangers, catering to these strange men’s desires while struggling to uphold the very minimum of safety precautions, until we are sore, raw, swollen, chaffing, and torn. This is not consent, this is coercion. This is not sex work, […]
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Young Labor Didn’t Do its Homework Simone Watson* First published November 12 Tasmanian Labor’s agenda for its conference in Queenstown this weekend has promised an opportunity for ‘robust and spirited debate’. While the decriminalisation of brothels and the legalisation of some illicit drugs are being proposed by two separate branches of the party, the coupling […]
Rape, humiliation and sick fantasies: Baby-faced ex-prostitute whose clients paid her to ‘act like a little girl’ reveals what REALLY goes on inside Australia’s sex industry By Belinda Grant Geary For Daily Mail Australia A former sex worker has lifted the lid on the secret world of prostitution and claims violence, child sex fantasies and rape […]
See also: Sex industry rep tries to recruit prostitution survivor back into trade at book launch A very special launch in the West Here’s some pics from Friday nights launch in WA. Alice, Caitlin Roper, MTR, Simone Watson, Abigail Bray Abigail Bray launches Prostitution Narratives Alice shares her story MTR speaks at the book launch Special […]
I was honoured to be invited to deliver the biennial Bishop Manning lecture hosted by the Catholic Commission for Employment Relations at the Kirribilli Club recently. Bob Hawke and Noel Pearson preceeded me and I was the first woman to be asked. I spoke to our new book Prostitution Narratives: Stories of Survival in the […]
Three sex industry survivors will share their stories at the Brisbane and Perth launches of Prostitution Narratives on October 6 and October 14. Alice and Ally-Marie will speak at the Brisbane launch this Thursday and Alice and Simone Watson at the Perth launch the following Friday at which contributor Caitlin Roper, who contributed a chapter […]
The latest affront in an ongoing campaign of intimidation and harassment of Prostitution Narratives contributors and survivors Prostitution Narratives: Stories of survival in the sex trade was released by Spinifex Press in April. Since then, all connected with the book have been subjected to abuse, insults, vilification and threats. Our survivors have been endured torrents […]
The Men who Buy Women for Sex Caitlin Roper ABC Religion and Ethics 7 Sep 2016 As long as men prioritise their perceived right to the bodies of impoverished women and girls over women’s basic human rights, the prostitution industry will continue to thrive. Caitlin Roper is an activist and campaigns manager for the grassroots […]
US book reviewer Marilyn Brady, who writes at ‘Me, You, and Books’ has written a review which perfectly describes the impact we had hoped our book would have on those willing to give its contents a fair hearing – a re-consideration of the dominant, accepted (and often un-examined) viewpoint on the […]
Bringing invisible women out from the shadows On Saturday August 27 I’ll be part of a panel titled ‘Invisible Women’ at the Melbourne Writers Festival. I’ll be talking about the book I co-edited with Caroline Norma, Prostitution Narratives: Stories of survival in the sex trade (Spinifex Press, 2016). With me will be Melbourne academic and […]
