"Observador oculto", by Marcelo Gregorin Coelho (Click to access picture)

Guest post: “women can’t do that, it’s not good for them”

The justification for the limitations of women’s autonomy, equality and freedom to make their own decisions on their personal sexual and reproductive rights has always been that “it is good for them”; that they need protection from themselves or others – for their own good as well as  the good of ‘the family’, work or [...]

OBJECT - Women not sex objects (By: Marco Leitao Silva)

Prostitution is not “just another job”, OBJECT says

Unionized sex workers have joined, this morning, the public sector strike against pension changes. But, while sex workers protest on the streets, the human rights group OBJECT says the strikers’ stance that “prostitution is just another job” is “seriously misfounded”. As Under the red light reported this morning, the sex workers’ branch of the GMB [...]

According to the Home Office, there are 80.000 people involved in UK

Counting sex workers and longtime mistakes

It doesn’t require a lot of effort to find, on the web, escorting agencies based in Britain, or sex workers covering your residential area. The Home Office says that about 80.000 people are involved in prostitution in the United Kingdom – and that figure is often quoted by politicians, charities and NGO’s. But where do [...]