Rebecca Mott‘s Speech at Feminism in London’s Conference 2015 « It is great to be speaking here. I am amazed at the hard work and dedication that has gone into creating this event. I was up and down about being here. This is I find too much of modern feminism is liberal, and speak to the…
LEGALIZED PROSTITUTION IN AUSTRALIA : BEHIND THE SCENES. INTERVIEW WITH SIMONE WATSON By SPORENDA Simone Watson is a prostitution survivor and the director of NORMAC (Nordic Model in Australia Coalition) http://normac.org.au/ S : You have worked in legal and illegal massage parlors. Can you describe these places and are there any differences in safety and material conditions for…
A letter to a woman in prostitution Written by Ahuva Sheli (pseudonym), a survivor of prostitution (Translated from Hebrew by Shunamith Carin) « Hi, how are you? I am writing you this letter, hoping you will read it to the end. Like you, I became trapped in the prostitution cycle five years ago. Before that, I…
EXITING PROSTITUTION INTERVIEW with LAURENCE NOELLE By Sporenda Laurence Noelle is a certified social trainer specialized in human relationships and violence prevention. She is mandated by the Ministery of Justice to intervene in jails to lead training sessions teaching inmates to control violence and behavioral problems, as well as preventing repeat offence and drug abuse.…
Open Letter to Amnesty International By the survivors of the Help Collective for Sexually Exploited Women (Collectif d’Aide aux Femmes Exploitées Sexuellement – CAFES) of QUÉBEC « We have believed in your will to make this world a better, fairer world, a world that respects and promotes the rights of all human beings, not just those…
DECODING PIMP LANGUAGE : INTERVIEW WITH REBECCA MOTT By Sporenda photo : Rebecca at the ©BBC S : On your blog, you write often about what you call « pimp language ». Pimp language is the discourse found everywhere—in the media, in ordinary conversations etc—which normalizes and legitimates prostitution. One of the ways to do that is to…
Prostitution : The human being dehumanized A conversation with the German psychiatrist Dr. Lutz-Ulrich Besser, founder and director of the Center for Psycho-Trauma and Trauma Therapy Lower Saxony. SOLWODI: Is prostitution a job like any other? Lutz-Ulrich Besser: This activity is not at all a job like any other. To anyone dealing with this topic…
L’abolition est un travail de longue haleine par Rebecca Mott Je tiens à remercier tous ceux qui ont réagi positivement à mon récent appel au secours, mais je ne veux pas que ce soit seulement une flambée de courte durée. Je veux jeter sur papier quelques idées sur ce que signifie le projet abolitionniste pour…
Interview with survivor Rosen Hicher, who walked 743km to fight for Abolition by Sporenda ©Sonia Delhaye Sporenda : Why did you decide to do this demonstration, the Walk for Abolition, and why a walk as opposed to some other type of action? Rosen : This idea of doing a walk has been on my mind…
Votre libération sexuelle est notre mise à mort Rebecca Mott, 9 décembre 2014 Je suis toujours étonnée, et profondément attristée, par la façon dont la gauche sous tutelle masculine lutte pour les droits de l’homme et pour une libération de l’emprise du capitalisme – mais conserve ses œillères face à l’industrie du sexe. Mais pourquoi…
DIE FRAU IM FENSTER Interview mit Sabrina* von Francine Sporenda Sporenda: Du hast einige Zeit [als Prostituierte] hinter einem Fenster gearbeitet. Kannst du mir dieses Umfeld ein wenig beschreiben? Sabrina: Das war in einem Land im Norden, an der Küste in der Nähe des Hafens. Es war eine hübsche kleine Stadt; in dieser Straße gab…
Rebecca Mott ist eine Aussteigerin und Überlebende der Prostitution. Dies ist ihre Rede anlässlich der Gründung von End Demand. End demand for sexual exploitation – Beendet die Nachfrage nach sexueller Ausbeutung – ist eine neue Kampagne in Großbritannien, die sich für die Verabschiedung des Sex Buyer Law einsetzt, das den Verkauf von Sex entkriminalisiert, den…
Rebecca Mott Speech for Launch of Challenging Demand Rebecca Mott is a prostitution survivor. Here is the speech she gave yesterday at the End Demand launch. End demand for sexual exploitation is a new campaign in UK to pass the Sex Buyer Law which is designed to decriminalise the sale of sex, criminalise the buying of…
Rosen Hicher is a French survivor of prostitution. Here is a translation of an Op-Ed she published in the French daily LIBÉRATION http://www.liberation.fr/societe/2014/07/17/pour-en-finir-avec-les-clients_1065741, in July 2014, as a group of French senators are trying to derail a bill based on the Nordic Model that would penalize « sex purchasers » (paying rapists). At a time when the…
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