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59 year old Hebridean Rad, walked this path since I was 13, you won't get me off it now! Has passion for unsuitable swishy coats, poetry and books, lots and lots of books, and cats, musn't forget the cats. Is known as Esme Weatherwax for a reason.

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He's such a fucking wank.

Are they actually wanting civil strife? Not a one of them in either big Govt or Councils care that key worker housing situation in rural is a disaster either. See bit I posted re diversity in countryside, the sheer stupid arrogance of it and the mindset of fuck your dogs and your pubs, minorities don't like them so out they go type of thinking. Way to piss people off or what.
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/02/01/diversity-drive-make-countryside-less-white/?msockid=22fd28a7ea6567c4380f3e53eb016620

The plans follow Defra-commissioned reports that claimed the countryside would become “irrelevant” in a multicultural society, as it was a “white environment” principally enjoyed by the “white middle class”. National Landscapes – previously called areas of outstanding natural beauty (AONB) – and their local councils have since committed to a number of diversity targets. The Chilterns National Landscape team has set out proposals that include community outreach schemes to attract more Muslims to the area, particularly from nearby Luton. More diverse staff will be recruited, marketing material will be produced featuring people visibly from ethnic minorities, and written in “community languages”. Research has also been commissioned to support this work, some of which suggests that dogs should be kept under tighter control, as some groups are scared of them.

Malvern Hills National Landscape said in proposals: “Many minority peoples have no connection to nature in the UK because their parents and their grandparents did not feel safe enough to take them or had other survival preoccupations.” It added: “While most white English users value the solitude and contemplative activities which the countryside affords, the tendency for ethnic minority people is to prefer social company (family, friends, schools).” One concern was that rural facilities “cater to white English culture”, namely: “Protected landscapes were closely associated with ‘traditional’ pubs, which have limited food options and cater to people who have a drinking culture. Accordingly, Muslims from the Pakistani and Bangladeshi group said this contributed to a feeling of being unwelcome.”

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https://www.feministcurrent.com/2014/11/24/from-norway-to-new-zealand-pro-prostitution-research-is-its-own-worst-enemy/

Permit me to show you a lie so grand its telling should cause alarm, but it doesn’t because the deception is in service of solidifying men’s ownership of women from the inside out and absolutely.

I triple check facts before stating them. Some is preparation for audience feedback and some is doubt about how well I know what I know, perhaps because I’m a woman in a culture that disregards women. Operating on the niggling thought that my political opponents might make a valid argument against my preferred prostitution solution of criminalizing johns, I have dived into every policy paper on prostitution I have gotten whiff of for thirteen years.

You may have encountered the results of my labors before when I wrote about Norwegian research that unintentionally affirmed the success of criminalizing johns.

The Prostitution Reform Act of 2003 (PRA) decriminalized prostitution in New Zealand. At the same time, the Prostitution Law Review Committee was established to report within 3 to 5 years on the number of New Zealand’s newly dubbed “sex workers.” Here is that 2008 report.

The summary concludes decriminalization did not increase street prostitution. The contents of Section 8 prove street prostitution went up and more than doubled between 2006 to 2007 in Auckland, New Zealand’s largest city.

The official press release was based on these comments from the summary [bolds mine],
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From 2022

https://4w.pub/prostitution-survivors-event/

On 29 August, a group called Sex Workers Action Group (SWAG), organizers of Berlin’s annual International Whores Day activities, called for protest against an open-air film event and discussion organized by a feminist group in Berlin that helps women exit prostitution.

The event, put together by the NGO Sisters eV, was to feature women speaking of their experiences in the sex industry. It was called off by the venue after SWAG organized a coordinated campaign where they asked supporters to spam the venue with a pre-written letter in which they denigrated former prostitutes as “alleged dropouts” and “showcase victims.”

They posted a graphic of the event flyer superimposed with the text: “Sisters eV” is bringing together the crème de la creme of the German SWERF + TERF and fundamental Christians. They want to promote the criminalization of our work and authoritarian ideas to Kreuzberg!” The organizers were able to find an alternative venue that would agree to host them, and the event took place the following evening. The activists attempted to find out the details of the new event but were unable to do so in time (for security reasons, the new venue was not communicated online until soon before the start time). A message on the homepage of Sisters eV reads: “In times when the state is failing and Germany has become the 'European hub for trafficking in women' and the country of entry for sex tourists, we appeal to citizens to act. We want to help prostitutes in need and to help them get out. We want to educate about the bitter reality of prostitution.”

In 2002, the German government passed a law that would ultimately legalize sex work. According to this law, sex work was no longer seen as immoral, but could be viewed as a legitimate profession which people could choose to pursue.

The SOLWODI is an aid organization active in Germany since 1987, offering counseling centers and shelters for foreign women and girls who are victims of human trafficking and forced prostitution. In July 2022 they called for a ban on prostitution in Germany, saying that the country had become "Europe's brothel" due to lax laws governing sex work.
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https://www.feministcurrent.com/2024/01/06/on-respecting-sex-workers/

Ever since I have been writing about prostitution and the sex industry more broadly, I have been accused of one thing: not respecting “sex workers.” Often of “hating sex workers,” actually — of “whorephobia.”

Since about 2011, I have been labelled a “SWERF” (sex worker exclusionary radical feminist). While this term didn’t catch on in the same way “TERF” (trans exclusionary radical feminist) did, it caught on among leftists, third wave feminists and those advocating for the legalization of the sex trade. The intention was the same as with the term, “TERF”: to twist feminist advocacy for women’s rights, safety, and dignity and efforts to protect women from dangerous and predatory men by preserving women’s spaces and/or by criminalizing men seeking to exploit and abuse women and girls in the sex trade into some kind of “phobia” or effort to discriminate against a “marginalized population.”

This has been a defining factor of the third wave, broadly, as those challenging the supposed empowerment attached to objectification are labelled “slut shamers;” those questioning whether the normalization of violent sex and BDSM is in fact just a matter of “consenting adults” are labelled “anti-sex;” and those suggesting prostitution is not simply “a job like any other” are labelled “anti-sex worker.” Despite my efforts over the last decade+ to explain my position, which was developed through study of various legislative models throughout the world as well as through interviewing and reading the work of countless experts on prostitution, including women who were once prostituted themselves, but had managed to exit the trade, freed to assess their situation clearly and speak the truth about the industry, the accusation remains the same.

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https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/in-prostitution-a-woman-ceases-to-be-seen-as-a-human-being-in-the-eyes-of-others-1.2139162?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

A survivor of prostitution had described being repeatedly raped, of being urinated on, having objects inserted inside her, and how in the end prostitution brought her to her “knees”.

Mia de Faoite, addressing yesterday’s seminar, told how she got drawn into prostitution on Dublin’s Burlington Road, to pay for heroin, from 2005 to 2010.

“In prostitution a woman ceases to be seen as a human being in the eyes of others and becomes a trapped mind that lives in a body that no longer belongs to her...I used [heroin] to block out what I had become but I witnessed the deterioration of other women over the years.”

Her first of three rapes was when she and another woman were gang-raped in December 2005. They were ‘working’ at a Christmas party where drugs and alcohol were taken.