As a newcomer to Netflix, I was addicted yesterday. I watched until my eyes bled tears into the morning. I found it to be fantastic entertainment but unfortunately also a metaphor for our society’s explicit and implicit sexualisation of underage girls. Life, for many, is going to work and returning to watch Netflix (which is ironically both the escape from work and avoidance of the dissatisfied lives worked for). It’s understandable that people are hypnotised. My takeaway spaghetti thought concerns sexuality, nature versus exploitation. Thoughts on movie thumbnails and a French … Read the full article…
We should legalise prostitution in South Africa. Sex workers deserve unions enforcing safety, health care and better pay for less customers. It would reduce stigma, gain taxes, attract tourists and create peripheral jobs. It would initially protect an estimated 200,000 human beings. Lessening the HIV infection rate would save far more. Religion doesn’t enter the equation because we’re a secular country. Of course some will disagree with me so I add that objections make Islam and Christianity strange bedfellows. Saving lives we know should be more important than saving souls … Read the full article…
Tonight, I’ll visit Death. For days I’ve sensed the arrival of this juncture but only realised the precise time a few minutes ago. Knew it as I climbed the last flight of stairs, ten steps in all – a countdown i counted… ten, nine… and then so soon- three, two, one- -to where I’m sliding my guilty key into the iron gate’s lock. The rooftop is my special place. I will miss my stony friend. A glitter of stars ensure that I know which way to fall. The wind tugs … Read the full article…
Artist Diane Goldie awakens to the fact that the 36-old-boyfriend she had at 13 was a pedophile and that she used sex to shield her from her pain throughout her life. Now, Diane is a 51-year-old feminist, asserting her visibility with her bold style. Click here to view more videos from the What’s Underneath Project.
I’m all for the new amendment to the sex act regarding kids in South Africa. It’s disturbing how many people are hysterical about it on the net, some claiming, bizarrely, that it promotes pedophilia. When did making kids criminals replace parenting and community education? When did blaming kids for natural hormones become ok? Where’s logic, practicality and the acceptance of being human? Despite attending an all-boys school, most had shared their virginity. I hadn’t and threatened to burst from the fact of it. The worst thing that could have happened … Read the full article…
