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Belle de Jour
belledejour-uk.blogspot.com
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Newquay Lap Dance Claims Wrong

Via Lori Smith, I was alerted to this claim last week by police in Cornwall that a lap dance venue license application should be rejected because such clubs might cause sexual violence. As Lori point...

6 days ago

Links roundup: 14 November

Interesting thoughts on whether sexting criminalises teenagers, and a case of a 17-year-old put on the Sex Offenders Register for possessing sexted photos of people his age (including pictures of him...

21 may 12

Miss World and Mary Beard

This post has been removed. Curious to read what its all about? You can now order the book at Amazon.

21 may 12

Links Roundup: 30 November

Newsweeks cover story on "sex addiction" gets a once-over by psychologist David Ley.What cultural forces are bringing this to the fore right now?I think it’s a perfect storm. It’s the media a...

21 may 12

Is British public life dominated by men?

Today in the Guardian, features writer Kira Cochrane has produced a story that is already being widely quoted on the numbers (or lack thereof) of visible women in the media. "In a typical month, ...

21 may 12

Links Roundup: 12 December

Good counter to the hype surrounding the Muff March last week, and the scare stats surrounding it.It doesn’t say how many were transsexual women going in for their second stage labiaplasty, or how ma...

21 may 12

Obscenity Trial ends

(Also cross-posted at Freedom In a Puritan Age, which allows comments.)Now that the obscenity trial against Michael Peacock is over [background], what have we learned? Apart from the fact that there ...

21 may 12

Links Roundup: 08 January

Jane Fae writes about the Daily Mail getting themselves into a froth about Boots selling marital sex aids where children might see them. Way to go, Mail. As if you couldnt go into any Wal-Mart in Ame...

21 may 12

The Sex Myth: extract and first interview

The Telegraph have now printed an extract and the first interview about The Sex Myth. Positively chuffed to see "be an ally" in print. (Especially on Friday the 13th, which is fast becoming t...

21 may 12

On Scars

It was slightly surprising - but not altogether unexpected - that on the weekend when my book The Sex Myth has its first excerpt and interview in the Telegraph that "feminists" would immediat...

21 may 12 1 person likes this

Lets Talk About Sex(ualisation)

One of the big "sex myths" addressed in the new book is the discussion about child sexualisation. Or rather, is it a myth? In spite of what you may get from the mainstream press, this is actu...

21 may 12

The Numbers on the Game

Perhaps one of the biggest "sex myths" making the rounds these days is to what extent experiences like mine are (or are not, as it is claimed) representative of sex workers in general. (Of co...

21 may 12

Countdown and Housekeeping

Only two days until The Sex Myth is released! Maybe what youve heard about the book is true... and maybe its not. Read it for yourself and explore where you stand on issues like sexualisation, sex wo...

21 may 12

The Sex Myth - out now!

After much huffing and puffing the time has finally come to blow all the myths about sex down. Read the whole controversial truth, and decide for yourself...E-books: Kindle user? Get it here. Kobo Er...

21 may 12

The Naked Book

So, the other night Scott Pack and I were on Radio Litopias The Naked Book talking about the topics we had been set to do on Newsnight (until they cancelled last minute): namely, ebooks, fanfic, and ...

21 may 12

The Truth About Julie

A number of people have asked if I would respond to the piece Julie Bindel wrote about The Sex Myth in the Grauniad. Clearly as she took the opportunity to let rip, so too must I?Maybe, maybe not. Be...

21 may 12

On anonymity and outing

As some, many, or all of you may know, a certain anonymous blogger was "outed" by a celeb on Twitter yesterday. For those who know, just nod along; for those who dont, Im not going to rebroad...

21 may 12

How To Blog Anonymously (and how not to)

Further to yesterdays post, this is a list of thoughts prompted by a request from Linkmachinego on the topic of being an anonymous writer and blogger. Maybe not exactly a how-to (since the outcome is...

21 may 12

The Sex Myth is out now! After much huffing and puffing the time has finally come to blow all the myths about sex down. Read the whole controversial truth, and decide for yourself...E-books: Kindle u...

11 may 12

Dr Brooke Magnanti is a UK-based writer and science researcher who previously wrote under the pseudonym Belle de Jour. Interests: whisky, forensic biometrics, evidence-based policy.Upcoming6-7 April:...

14 mar 12

The SWAAY billboard about sex work - which will be the first of its kind in the US, located in Los Angeles no less - is over halfway funded. Lets take it over the top, everyone! Click here to donate!...

07 aug 11

Psst... Im blogging again! Look over here for the Sexonomics blog.First topic over there is my green paper on why the widely reported 2003 paper connecting lap dancing to rape in Camden, originally p...

24 jun 11

Psst... Im blogging again! Look over here.First topic over there is my green paper on why the widely reported 2003 paper connecting lap dancing to rape in Camden, originally published by Eaves / Lili...

01 apr 11

Please read my green paper on why the widely reported 2003 paper connecting lap dancing to rape in Camden, originally published by Eaves / Lilith, is wrong. New rates, new trend, and discussion.Cover...

28 mar 11

Please read my green paper on why the widely reported 2003 paper connecting lap dancing to rape in Camden, originally published by Eaves / Lilith, is wrong. New rates, new trend, and discussion.Cover...

09 mar 11

Please read my green paper on why the widely reported 2003 paper connecting lap dancing to rape in Camden, originally published by Eaves / Lilith, is wrong. New rates, new trend, and discussion.It ha...

22 feb 11

Belle de Jour is the pen name of Dr Brooke Magnanti, a UK-based writer and science researcher. Interests: whisky, taphonomy, PGP encryption.Please read my green paper on why the widely reported 2003 ...

13 feb 11

Belle de Jour is the pen name of Dr Brooke Magnanti, a UK-based writer and science researcher. Interests: whisky, taphonomy, PGP encryption.Please read my green paper on why the widely reported 2003 ...

11 feb 11

Belle de Jour is the pen name of Dr Brooke Magnanti, a UK-based writer and science researcher. Interests: whisky, taphonomy, PGP encryption.Please read my green paper on why the widely reported 2003 ...

23 jan 11

Belle de Jour is the pen name of Brooke Magnanti, a UK-based writer and science researcher. Interests: whisky, taphonomy, PGP encryption.YouTube on Feminism vs. Sex WorkUpcoming and recent events:Spe...

27 apr 10

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