Article in today's Guardian G2 Women's Page interviewing Roger Matthews, professor of criminology at London's South Bank University, about his work on prostitution and his recommendations for dealing with the problems.

And I'm mostly 'yeah, right' about what he's saying (though I don't see harm reduction as an opposing strategy to the things he ( Read more... )

From today's Observer:

Go Mariella Frostrup yay! Almost eight decades after emancipation, depictions of women completely incompatible with our supposed status as equal and respected members of society are on the rise. Apparently being allowed to blow up your breasts and buy porn star-style underwear on the high street is a step forward.

But Jasper ( Read more... )

After a long, long, day I am now in the hotel near O'Hare - travelling onwards tomorrow. Flight was a bit late leaving, and had head-winds, arrived later than scheduled. Loooooong queue at passport control AND I was selected to have further checks, o joy, which involves going and sitting in a room with benches while one guy calls people forward, as ( Read more... )

Coming around again - nothing new under the sun - perpetual cycles: the intensity of concern we have now about childhood, and the remedies and solutions we propose, have a remarkable similarity to those in play at the beginning of the 20th century.

Josephine Butler gets her due - I don't think of her as forgotten, and I think that side of it can be ( Read more... )