tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670812027273632828.post4571475189376590576..comments2023-11-02T06:50:42.777-07:00Comments on billierosie: PROSTITUTIONbillierosiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00288997506566830393noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670812027273632828.post-60070790044834162852010-03-28T19:26:25.507-07:002010-03-28T19:26:25.507-07:00Wonderful, sweetie! Great job!Wonderful, sweetie! Great job!mchristianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11887406428164757014noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670812027273632828.post-7029896847910870832010-03-17T06:32:08.386-07:002010-03-17T06:32:08.386-07:00Thanks Janine, OG and Alex.
I forgot to mention ...Thanks Janine, OG and Alex. <br /><br />I forgot to mention in the post; Mrs Warren's Profession, has opened at the Comedy Theatre, Panton Street, London SW1. They are booking until 19th June 2110.<br /><br />I shall try and get there!billierosiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00288997506566830393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670812027273632828.post-75929023048544234912010-03-16T12:22:52.528-07:002010-03-16T12:22:52.528-07:00This is a really interesting post, Billie!This is a really interesting post, Billie!Janine Ashblesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00840188081214225153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670812027273632828.post-53810228009042535922010-03-14T07:57:49.370-07:002010-03-14T07:57:49.370-07:00Thanks Alex -- always interesting to get a male pe...Thanks Alex -- always interesting to get a male perspective and OG, you've certainly given me a lot to think about. It certainly is shocking that in the 21st century, women's work is valued less than men's. And you're absolutely right -- an infirm parent, or a sick child. It's usually the woman in the relationship, who gives up her career, to be a carer.<br /><br />As for attitudes to prostitution. I think these are changing and for the better. A few years ago,(2006) just before Christmas, there were a series of murders of "working girls". I think 5 altogether. <br /><br />It's not surprising that prostitutes are targeted -- there's a long history of hatred and violence towards them. <br /><br />What surprised me, was the attitude of very middle class women. Possibly the grand daughters of the Victorian ladies, who preached hell and damnation -- these 21st century women, were on the side of the prostitutes. <br /><br />They wanted better working conditions for the girls. Legal brothels where the girls would be safe. One woman said to me that the girls should be freely given the heroin they were addicted to, so they wouldn't have to sell themselves.<br /><br />So, yes, laws change, but not fast enough. so do attitudes, very slowly.billierosiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00288997506566830393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670812027273632828.post-87961970196336307842010-03-11T16:36:06.610-08:002010-03-11T16:36:06.610-08:00Well yes, women do have more choices. But we are s...Well yes, women do have more choices. But we are still limited - both at present and as we look at our future. As reported in 2007, women earn on average 78 cents for every dollar that men are paid for the same or similar word. The figures for women of color are even worse. And that 78 cents to the dollar is only 19 cents above what it was when the Equal Pay Act was passed in 1963. To quote the website of NOW (National Organization for Women, the source of these figures) "This means it took 44 years for the wage gap to close just 19 cents -- a rate of less than half a penny a year. This narrowing of the gap has slowed down over the last six years, with women gaining a mere two cents since 2001."<br /><br />You can read more here:<br />http://www.now.org/issues/economic/factsheet.html#facts<br /><br />The irony of it is that it is men, more than women, who are losing their jobs in the current recession, while their wives are still working. As these guys stay home as unexpected house husbands or discouraged job seekers, how many, I wonder, are wishing they had paid more attention to issues of pay equity?<br /><br />Have an ill parent? It is the daughter who is expected to give up her career and her life, especially if she is unmarried. Get married? It is somehow unseemly if she manages to make more than her husband. Have kids? More often than not it is the mother's career that suffers. Get divorced, especially after her income was reduced by choices made for the marriage, for the man's career, and with the assumption that they would be together into old age? Now she's really screwed.<br /><br />Meanwhile, despite my relatively low mortgage payments, at 61 I can't afford my home without renting out a bedroom to a stranger. Do I think of using my sexual talents to supplement my income? Damn straight I do! At the very least, I'd be brilliant at phone sex. And if my sadistic Master wants me to amuse his friends with my body for his ultimate pleasure, wouldn't it be nice if they could each cough up $100 a pop? Or more? $700 a month would mean I could keep the dungeon bedroom for... Well, this is not the appropriate place to discuss my own habits.<br /><br />Sorry for the diatribe. But there really does remain a lot of work to be done.<br /><br />o.g.oatmeal girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12842608615972752000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670812027273632828.post-52671390604538213102010-03-11T11:11:28.679-08:002010-03-11T11:11:28.679-08:00Billie- thought provoking as ever!! Difficult for ...Billie- thought provoking as ever!! Difficult for a man here I think.. A fantasy for me is to be treated as woman's property, slave, whatver you want to call it, so the idea of a woman paying to use me, to enjoy my body is a turn on and an aspiration rather than a cause for unhappiness!As with Belle De Jour (yes isn't Billie Piper wonderful!!!)its an issue of choice surely. If a human being wants to sell what they have, this should be a celebration of their appeal ang desires not a matter of reprimand or guilt. Again, givng yourself to someone body and soul makes you free in a way that cannot be denied. Or is that just me!!!!!! Alex XXAlex Severnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13823945484574703408noreply@blogger.com