Posts Tagged ‘Events’
Venue: Cable, 33A Bermondsey St.,London Bridge, London SE1 2EG
Wednesday 3rd February 7-11pm
Striptease Artists, Performance Artists, Porn Artists and Special Guest Appearances.
Tickets £50 including welcome canapés, bubbly and sit-down dinner
Tables bookable on 0707 499 0808 /
and www.erotic-awards.co.uk
Raising funds for the Outsiders Trust, Charity Nos 283350 & SC03830
where disabled people find partners.
www.outsiders.org.uk.
Professor Stephen Guest discusses how the new offence of “possessing extreme pornography” threatens freedom of thought, in a free talk at UCL.
University College London (Darwin Lecture Theatre), Gower Street, London WC1
08 December 2009, 1:15pm
A new TLC and Sexual Freedom Coalition Campaign is being launched to lobby local social services to change their policies on sex workers, to give disabled people rights to pay for sex.
Currently, paid support staff are forbidden to help the disabled men and women within their care to order and enjoy the (legal) services of a sex worker, in what is essentially supposed to be their own home.
Support staff have been struggling with this issue for decades now, often helping out, despite the ban. They fear that they may be sacked and then their disabled clients will be left sexually stranded.
Not only is it a scandal that disabled people are being prevented from enjoying services that other people take for granted, it is also a disgrace that their sexual rights are both discussed and dismissed by people who have no business in doing so.
This campaign is being launched at the conference Disability: Sex, Relationships and Pleasure at the Royal Society of Medicine on 13th November. See http://www.rsm.ac.uk/academ/sej101.php and www.shada.org.uk section on Conference.
Saturday 21st November 12 noon to 2pm
Hyde Park, London
Protest organised by the One Law fo All Group (http://onelawforall.org.uk) which is run by the Iranian dissident Maryam Namazie
Sexual Freedom Coalition banner available for supporters to carry. Please get in touch.
The media and NGOs have raised awareness of sex trafficking in recent years, but does it serve the interests of migrant sex workers to suggest they have been trafficked, or does it collude in their criminalisation and deportation? Should our priority be to give migrant women in the sex industry more control over their own lives, or to stop the traffic?
Speakers:
Laura María Agustín, author of Sex at the Margins and a former educator working with expatriate sex workers;
Georgina Perry, service manager for Open Doors, an NHS initiative which deliver outreach and clinical support to sex workers in east London;
Catherine Stephens, sex worker;
Jon Birch, inspector, Metropolitan Police Clubs and Vice Unit.
Chair: Libby Brooks, deputy Comment editor, The Guardian.
The debate takes place at 7pm on Wednesday 11th March, at the Institute of Contemporary Arts. More details are available here: http://www.ica.org.uk/Sex%20Traffic+19176.twl