listen, right now i'm just interested in this

"i never do anything for less than £15"

another article from the guardian related to the murders in Ipswich. this one an interview with another working girl about life working the streets

more about the murders in Ipswich

i'm going to link a second news source in one day.

this is an interesting opinion piece from the independent about how laws in the uk make it easier for the bad people to prey on women working in the sex industry. to me a lot of it seems pretty common sense. even though i don't think prostitution is the best of all career choices (i feel the same way about the dental hygiene industry so don't get on me for ragging on women who make unpopular choices, i judge the popular choices too!) i still wish it could be made safer so that the women who do choose it have some recourse against violent clients.

i could have linked salon but chose the guardian instead

five women have been killed in Ipswich this month, specifically five prostitutes have been killed, this makes it okay to make jokes about it. even though it's not and they aren't funny. two of the bodies were just found yesterday and the murders have happened very close together. i can't imagine how scary it must be for all the women who live there right now.

i chose to link to the guardian article because in all it's liberal glory it links to another article about the fact that these women did not deserve this. it is not okay to kill them because they provide sex for money. and that people who kill prostitutes don't kill them because they hate hookers, they do it because they hate women.