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Attitudes towards sex work and gay sex have varied from culture to culture, but stigma has consistently dogged both. Even today, when sex work is discussed in the media, the male sex worker is almost always excluded. The narrative of the sexually exploited ‘prostituted woman’ dominates the rhetoric of those who would abolish sex work. No space is given to discussing the men who sell sex and the women who buy it. Why? Because as Jack Saul discovered in 1889, the abolitionists and those who wish to ‘rescue’ sex workers will disregard that which challenges the narrative of the abused victim.
A Curious History of Sex
Kate Lister
Another epidemic disease had devastated Broadway in the eighties, AIDS. When I asked Roth if he thought about the comparison with Covid, he began to weep. “Constantly,” he said. “Constantly.” After he composed himself, he said, “An entire generation of artists and storytellers is gone, and our community is still grappling with that. There’s a huge, gaping hole where there should be lives.”
The Plague Year
Lawrence Wright
Among the obvious risks, Columbia University psychiatrist Paul S. Appelbaum <a href="http://archpsyc.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2491352">writes in a companion article</a> to Kim’s, is “inducing hopelessness among other individuals with similar conditions and removing pressure for an improvement in psychiatric and social services.”
Where the Prescription for Autism Can Be Death - The Washington Post
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