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A tombstone for the famed German sex-worker and advocate Domenica Niehoff has been turned down as too sexual by the cemetery where she was buried.
Boing Boing 2009
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What I am referring to is online communities, and those conversations (other than those that take place in specifically sex-worker friendly spaces) are often dominated by either radfems or conservative “abolitionist” types.
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Well, there does remain a stigma attached to it, which is the flipside of the sex-worker stigma.
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German cemetery nixes sexualized tombstone for sex-worker/advocate's grave
Boing Boing 2009
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Last September, Mrs. Kirchner's cabinet chief, Aníbal Fernández , wrote a blog post accusing Clarin of "double morals" for denouncing sexual trafficking in its news columns while at the same time publishing sex-worker ads.
Argentine Leader Prohibits Sex Ads Matt Moffett 2011
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In the same way that a trans* or cis - victim of violence who was also sex-worker is important in that a disproportionate level of violence is directed against people who work in certain parts of this. and without it being talked about, even via sensationalism, there is no way to effect both legal and social change. queen emily Says:
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Playing Henry Higgins to her oversexed Eliza Dolittle, he sweeps her up from her sex-worker life and deposits her in a penthouse decorated all in white, creating what seems like a perfect little love nest.
Marshall Fine: Movie review: You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger 2010
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I hate rad-fleas coming here as sex-worker poseurs, trying to divide and conquer.
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Playing Henry Higgins to her oversexed Eliza Dolittle, he sweeps her up from her sex-worker life and deposits her in a penthouse decorated all in white, creating what seems like a perfect little love nest.
Marshall Fine: Movie review: You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger 2010
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We've all been hoping the Obama administration would reverse Bush's position of undermining and underfunding the Global Fund (because it wasn't US controlled and supports scary programs like needle exchange and sex-worker programs).
Matthew Kavanagh: Obama's Global Health Plan's Missing the Money 2009
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