Comments on: Absolutist abolitionists

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 23:27:21 +0000

Manyundergraduates are open minded. I asked my daughter, a recentish ex undergraduate to listen to a radio interview in Liverpool where Catherine spoke, an anti spoke and so did an outreach team.

My daughter was very condemning of the attitudes of the anti prostitution spokesperson. She felt the way she argued, the exaggerations, the use of the terms like ‘buy a prostitute’, human toilet etc, lost them all credibility.

She thought Catherine Stephens argued well and made valid points. It was an interesting view point from some one who is not involved.

By: Madam Becky Adams

Madam Becky Adams — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 12:09:44 +0000

I was sorry I missed it. Elrond said it was very good.
I recently been lecturing at Leeds Uni for Dr Teela Sanders, on various aspects of sex work, and it was great to see how receptive and open minded the under grads were, and how many of them added me on Facebook!
‘The best lecture of the year’ and ‘Educational Gold’
Anyway…
Lets hope changes will come with the younger generations.

Madam Becky

By: Stephen Paterson

Stephen Paterson — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 11:09:19 +0000

For those whose sound works (sadly mine doesn’t) there is something of the meeting here (though I’m told with quite some background noise), and for all of us there are the slides used:
http://poddelusion.co.uk/blog/2010/10/21/westminster-skeptics-belinda-brooks-gordon-and-brooke-magnanti/