Melissa Farley: “The real harms of prostitution”

Dr. Melissa Farley has kindly given us permission to reprint this article. Visit her website at Prostitution Research & Education. The real harms of prostitution MELISSA FARLEY WWW.PROSTITUTIONRESEARCH.COM Before we decide whether to legalise prostitution, it is important to know what prostitution is and what it is not. It is not a job like any […]

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Reiter’s Block: “A Stockholm Syndrome in Women’s Poetics?”

Reiter’s Block has kindly given us permission to reprint this article: A Stockholm Syndrome in Women’s Poetics? Gently Read Literature is a monthly web journal of essays on contemporary poetry and literary fiction. In “The Myth of Women’s Masochism”, her essay in the September issue, Stephanie Cleveland takes aim at the eroticizing of violence by […]

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Washington Post Will No Longer Accept Massage Parlor Ads

Washington Post ombudsman Andy Alexander announces welcome news in his September 29 blog post: Post will no longer accept massage parlor ads   The Post, long criticized for running massage-parlor ads, has decided it will no longer accept them. An internal note, e-mailed Tuesday to The Post’s advertising staff, said: “This is to let you know […]

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