A students’ union in France has released a study showing a rise in the number of French students entering the sex industry:According to the SUD-Etudiant union, 40,000 students in France - or nearly 2 per cent - fund their studies through the sex trade.The union says jobs taken by female students include hostess work and freelancing for escort agencies - as well as pavement prostitution…. They say there are many more prostitutes pretending to be French students than there are students selling sex in pursuit of their degrees.Extra credit to all who report back on French sex workers’ support organization Cabiria (English paper here) or this 1968 report on prostitution in France:The great object of the system adopted in France is to repress private or secret, and to encourage public or avowed prostitution.I may, however, as well premise by observing that the authorities of Paris by no means pretend to have established a control over the whole prostitution of that city.
Monthly Archives: October 2006
Sexsomnia Roundup
New Scientist has cracked the sleep sex story once again, reporting on the effects sleepsomnia has on intimate relationships…. The automatic arousal is more prominent, motor activities are relatively restricted and specific, and some form of dream mentation is often present.”Wikipedia: sleep sex.
Saturday Morning Sex TV: The Art of the Striptease
It’s the future, so you can.Here’s Dita von Teese, giving great interview (her voice!) on the history of the striptease, with a whole load of cute-as-heck clips of 50’s and 60’s burlesque performers.(via Jo Weldon, who you can spot briefly at one minute 30 seconds in…)