I just read it. It’s not the most balanced, dispassionate piece of journalism. But I admit I was surprised that the writer compared the firebombing of Korean businesses to the Holocaust.

Also I firmly believe he is wearing a piece on the back of his head. Look at the colour variation between his slightly thinning spiky hair and the lush back section. No shame in embracing the baldness, just shear it off really short and embrace the silver fox, Cyrus!

I had the conversation with a colleague. It was super uncomfortable but it had to be done. I took him out for coffee and said “I need to let you know something, and it’s very awkward for me to bring it up. You may not be aware but your body odour is very very strong. I wonder if you might have some fungal growth in…

Does ‘Frendschamen’ work for this?

Thank you Esmeralda, I am literally snorting with laughter at your sock-spider exchange rate.

Wasn’t it Jeanette Winterson who had a story about being a rent girl for older suburban ladies who were bi-curious? She claimed she used to get paid in Le Creuset

Nah, this one is completely not sexy. It works very well that way.

Suspicious of how the characters will be treated in a screenplay. In the novel their reactions were so complex. On the other hand you n ever get much backstory for the women in the book and maybe that works well for a movie.

This was a great book. Yes it’s bleak, but so powerfully written and the ending isn’t devoid of hope....

For reals though, my favourite is that he’s going to ask the joint chiefs of staff to devise a plan to protect America from cyber attacks (and all other forms of attack). A plan to prevent attacks! Why haven’t those chumps in the military and security agencies thought of that before?!!! [/sarcasm]

Hmm, I am nearly fifty and of a similar body shape to the women dancing and I actually delighted in the opening credits. It truly felt celebratory to me. But overall the movie felt like half a movie to me...I wanted Susan to be more complex and for the ‘art world’ scenes to be a bit more nuanced (more Andy Serkis…

Same, Zeeta. I was doing ok about the political world rocking, but having my physical world rock is messing with my head.

Yes in fact! Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) is a great place to work. The GIS branch is full of passionate, dedicated GIS specialists. You should check it out, for reals.

Hi Brangdon sorry for my year late reply! Yes the brothel receptionists can and do call police (but usually the client either gives in and agrees to wear a condom, or leaves in a huff). Yes there have been court cases about rape of sex workers, but to my knowledge never in a brothel (where the staff member can press a…

Whether you want to facilitate exiting prostitution, or you want to facilitate prostitution, reducing the stigma is a good thing for all concerned. Workers in a legal industry who decide it is damaging for them have a chance to exit because they are not regarded as ‘beyond the pale’. Workers who want to stay in…

oh sorry I meant to say, the reason I think my (non-drugged, non-coerced, legal) experience is fit for discussion is because it confounds the usual assumptions about sex workers. Maybe it’s true that ‘virtually no-one’ does sex work if they have other options. And yet here I am. :-)

[quote] just because *you* don’t feel now that your choice to do sex work hurt you doesn’t mean your experience relates to others in any way fit for discussion.[/quote]  My reason for putting it up for discussion is because it gives another perspective, and that usually makes discussions more fruitful.

Hi, sorry I’ve not been around to respond until now. The phrase of yours that sounded self-righteous to me was: “Sex work is unhealthy and virtually always very harmful.”. You took from the article that the author considers sex work a mistake and a harmful life choice. For what it’s worth, I didn’t take that…

Yay! What a gorgeous couple you make.

I don’t know what RebelGirl means, but where I live there are few special regulations or requirements for sex work. Broad health and safety laws apply to all industries and brothels are included in that. One special regulation is that to be a registered brothel owner you have to not have ties to organised crime (no…