The “Nordic model” (criminalisation of clients) doesn’t help trafficking victims (either international or citizens/residents being exploited and coerced) because criminalisation doesn’t deter clients who don’t give a fuck whether they’re breaking laws or not. Clients who are more inclined to be respectful, not try to…

The only thing worse than your mother being the last of her friends & peers to have a childless daughter in her 30s and loudly complaining about it, is when she stops loudly complaining about it and instead loudly says how she doesn’t want to be a grandmother and you are under strict orders to not get married and…

Has anyone seen I Spit On Your Grave 3? As in there was a reboot of the original I Spit On Your Grave (I know, just what the world was not asking for), and then there were two sequels to that. I Spit On Your Grave 3 was actually, and it feels so weird typing this about a rape revenge horror movie.... interesting. It’s…

When I was a teenager, my mother gave me this bit of advice when it comes to giving your unsolicited opinion on something. Before doing so, ask yourself, is what you’re about to say (a) kind (b) true (c) necessary. It must be at least two out of the three things. If it’s not, don’t say it. This is still good advice.

*sigh* Once again a debate about sex workers that seems to be about us as opposed to including us, so I guess I’ll wade in.

There’s nine characters in V-formation on the trailer The Kids Are Alright title screen and exactly one (1) of them is female. :/

The neckline was similar to Princess Mary’s dress (an Australian normal person who married the Crown Prince of Denmark). A similar fitting snafu happened there, she lost a lot of weight so it hung slightly weirdly on her shoulder. Didn’t totally ruin the look by any means but was noticeable.

My day job is near the Central Market so this is where I do most of my food shopping!

Pros: we have proper health insurance, gun control, compulsory attendance on election days (which are on the weekend here), women’s reproductive rights not perfect in all states but not teetering on edge of Republic of Gilead.

I’m a sex worker and Trump absolutely 100% gives me the vibes of one of those hideous dreary clients who either refuses to use condoms so only sees sex workers who don’t insist on them, or pisses and moans and makes the booking a huge psychological ordeal for you by endlessly pressuring you into not using one all…

Flashing back to that “The other side of the speculum: a male doctor’s point of view” piece from a few years back, where a male gynecologist cheerfully admitted to being less inclined to examine or give full professional care to patients he considered unattractive.

I love how “Little Women” is one of the best and most famous early instances of an author totally trolling their readers - Alcott was exasperated by all her fans who only cared about shipping Jo and Laurie and all they wanted to know about Jo’s future come the second volume of the book was whether she’d marry Laurie…

There’s the web series MissPooslie7 links below and also, if you have a fondness for shitty TV movies, Lifetime did a modern one a few years ago.

Ha, I didn’t realise this only just came out in America, it was Christmas 2017 viewing for anyone with BBC or a BBC syndicate.

Nigella Lawson’s first book came out in the 90s but I still find this paragraph in her dinner party section useful - a portion of fancy mushrooms sauteed with plenty of herbs and garlic and well seasoned takes no effort to do on top of whatever else you’ve got going on on the stove, and assuming your sides are meat…

I always cut the corners of my mouth on the plastic edges with Zooper Doopers.

Frosty Fruits are for when I’m feeling fancy as they cost a couple of dollars more. How do you feel about the different flavours? The grapefruit one I’m on the fence about as I’m not always in the mood for the bitterness. I LOOOOOOOVE the pineapple and watermelon one and was a bit annoyed when my local supermarket…

Terrific. The first season was like Anthony Bourdain’s show but without the smug (and I do say this as a fan of Bourdain’s books, No Reservations and some of Parts Unknown).

Refreshing is the word for it. Sometimes I would go so far as to say not liking the occasional lemonade Icy Pole during summer is positively un-Australian.

Politely disagree. In the summer here in Australia I can and do sometimes get through a box of these (if not two) during the course of a day rather than eat actual solid food.
Edit: Just the lemonade ones, the raspberry ones are cloying garbage plus the texture is somehow weirdly dense.