Entries by Tony Mckenna from 07/2012

Hell de Jour: The Sex Trade and its Advocates

| Posted 07.23.2012 | UK Politics

In a recent article for the Huffington Post, comedian Chris Dangerfield provides a new spin on an old argument regarding the sex trade. The argument is a familiar one: prostitutes are exploited but hey that's okay - because so are billions of other people. There is, he claims, no difference between the exploitation of a prostitute and that of a person working in Tesco stacking shelves for 12 hours a day.