Callous cruelty and disregard for a survivor of violence, as mob descends on Melbourne summit Professor S. Caroline Taylor AM is an internationally esteemed academic and researcher who provides specialist evidence in child abuse cases. She is recognised as one of Australia’s leading experts and consultants in the field of child and adult sexual violence and […]
“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, […]
Read the entire review here. See also: Prostitution Survivors: Backlash in Australia, Melinda Tankard Reist, Dignity Journal Purchase Prostitution Narratives ‘I have lost count of how many women have told me they have been raped. All the rapists have gotten away with it while the women are burdened with years of unspeakable shame and […]
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Read the entire article here As published in Dignity: A journal of sexual exploitation and violence You can purchase Prostitution Narratives here.
A threat to women. A disgrace to his profession This extract, quoting the mother of Grace Bellavue (Pippa O’Sullivan) is taken from ‘Sex Worker. Writer. Activist. Social Media Star. Who was the real Grace Bellavue?’ by Caroline Overington (writing in The Weekend Australian, September 10-11, and in the online version ‘Who was the real Grace […]
PORN, Sexual Exploitation and why people are trying to silence the voice of survivors. November 14, 2016 Danielle Strickland I sat down with this global advocate and asked about her latest project, global prostitution, porn, the sex industry and why they hate her AND her latest book Prostitution Narratives… Melinda Tankard Reist is an author, […]
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 […]
