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By erinn louise kerr • 11 years ago

Would you strip to pay your way?

In my now, three years of studying politics and practicing feminism, I can honestly say that I have not come across an issue which splits feminists so dramatically and consistently as sex work. This semester I studied ‘Sex work, theory and practice’ with a large group of other, mostly female, students. From the very first session it was clear that this subject matter would split the group in two, and passionately so. I didn’t think I would ever have so much to disagree upon with my fellow female, but I did. So here are the two main arguments surrounding one of the issues we discussed, stripping…

It has become a popular phenomenon, young women selling their bodies in strip clubs and lap dancing bars, not to pay for an expensive drug habit, or to experience the love and desire missing from their lives, but to pay their way through university. But does that make the act itself ok, does the fact that it is young intelligent girls, with their heads metaphorically screwed on that are out there shaking their butts in return for a quick buck make it more socially acceptable than if they were uneducated vulnerable girls with nowhere else to go? 
By erinn louise kerr • 12 years ago

A Feminist essay

After spending the majority of the last week becoming increasingly annoyed with how the world works, one of the many free prizes that come with a politics degree, today I came across this article by Yasmin Aibhai – Brown in the independent.

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/yasmin-alibhai-brown/yasmin-alibhaibrown-men-still-rule-from-the-bedroom-to-the-boardroom-6275784.html?origin=internalSearch

The reason I’ve been brewing such a pot of rage for the last week or so is because I’ve been writing an essay on feminism. The title “feminism has achieved its goals, discuss”, I am sure was purposefully chosen to enrage me. My first attempt at writing the essay was unsuccessful, probably because it involved a packet of cigarettes, a bottle of red wine and an angry 21 year old ranting about the patriarchy.

After deciding to take ...

After spending the majority of the last week becoming increasingly annoyed with how the world works, one of the many free prizes that come with a politics degree, today I came across this article by Yasmin Aibhai ...