Born in the wrong body?

Relationship therapist and coach Caroline Franssen advises: If you, your partner or your child have a growing urge to change into the other sex than the sex you were born in, you face a serious challenge. If you go ahead, you will be taking hormones (possibly by...

Harmful ads must go!

Dear Macmillan I would like to complain about this ad: 1. It trivialises, condones and encourages young men to see women as objects not fellow human beings. We know that these are ‘wank mags’. Objectification helps creates a climate where women are...

BMA against decrim

Why did the British Medical Association vote AGAINST decriminalising prostitution in July 2017?  Motion 422, that the BMA adopt the New Zealand model, was overwhelmingly voted down. If adopted, this would have totally decriminalised everyone in prostitution...

DON’T BELIEVE THE ECP.

1.  ECP purport to speak for all women in prostitution, but just as many prostitution survivors disagree with them. See http://www.spaceintl.org/ for a list of 11 women’s organisations and dozens of public statements against decriminalisation by survivors of...

I, DANIEL BLAKE

I, DANIEL BLAKE’s portrayal of prostitution This review discusses the role that prostitution plays in the life of Katie, the young single mum in Ken Loach’s 2016 film, ‘I, Daniel Blake’. We meet Katie as she moves into a council house in Newcastle and starts to clean...