Edited by Jill Dawson in 1992, The Virago Book of Wicked Verse is a collection of international, century-spanning work by women who have subverted the status quo. Sex and misery are the main topics, though they’re never represented the same way twice. Bawdy songs about impoverished prostitutes and compassionless poems about cruelty sit alongside childhood ...
If you’ve read this headline and are wondering why it is that BC seems to have an unusually high number of serial killers, you might be right. The recent arrest of Cody Legebokoff is set to confirm your suspicions. Legebokoff, a 21 year old man, has been charged with the murders of four women — one as young as 15 ...
The Missing Women Commission of Inquiry opened this morning surrounded by protesters demanding justice. Over the next eight months, the inquiry will be looking into the way the police handled the investigation of missing women on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, who began disappearing in the early 1990s. When Robert Pickton was finally arrested in 2002, the ...
Sex work could well become legal in Canada in the next month if an Ontario Supreme Court ruling that struck down laws against brothels is upheld. In the hope of gathering support for that legalization, sex workers united in Halifax at a conference to discuss the many ways regulation would help their working conditions. The ...
In Hollywood, when a girl goes bad, she’s gone. Like a magic trick, all of her roles go up in smoke. *Poof!* Not so with the men. A night on the town that ends up in a jail cell, with a beaten woman crying in the interview room, is just par for the course. Boys ...
As a sexologist my friends often tell me all kinds of juicy details about their sex lives that they probably wouldn’t share with anyone else. I think this is a privilege as I love talking about sex! I want to share my knowledge with the world to help people have the best sex lives possible. Please ...
A brothel in Nevada has introduced male prostitutes for women for a mere $180 for 40 minutes. The claim is that this will access the mid-market and allow women who can’t afford the high-class escorts to have some fun within their price range. This will quite likely be a useless business venture. If women want to ...
An article was published examining why men use prostitutes based on a study of over 700 men in six countries. This article was sensationalist, citing worn out old stereotypes about how all men are potential rapists and how normal women won’t do the things they want them to do, and did nothing to answer the question ...
You can have the girls next door, for about $10,000. Madam Michelle Braun claims that she spent 11 years matching Playboy Playmates with kings, Fortune 500 CEOs and professional athletes. She alleges that women in the house actively recruited for her and 7 out of 8 worked for her. Hef will want to know when ...
Amazon.com WidgetsBelle de Jour, the sex worker in London who wrote a book about her experiences, has finally revealed her true identity. She is Dr. Brooke Magnanti, a researcher in Bristol on developmental neurotoxicology and cancer epidemiology.
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