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June 2 is International Sex Workers Day.
Thirty-seven years ago on 2nd June 1975, sex workers began a week-long occupation of Saint-Nizier church in Lyon, France.
This event was the birth of the European sex workers' movement.
150 women, men and trans sex workers staged a multi-day sit-in at the biggest church in Lyons. They were protesting police harassment and failure to prosecute crimes committed against sex workers.
The protest quickly spread to other churches in France.
"June 2, 1975 made the positive and human side of sex work and sex workers visible in the media and in society. For the first time sex workers talked about sex work as an occupation that one is free to choose and demanded respect for it". - International Committee on the Rights of Sex Workers in Europe (http://www.sexworkeurope.org/)
Amelia Babe
01-06-12, 21:44
cool! seeing as it is a celebration of sex workers we need gifts!
how about a free day of advertisin for every sex worker!? :)
Directions to the Pro Cathedral:
http://www.procathedral.ie/how-to-find-us
Discount for advertisers.
Allow advertisers to post full frontal shots
WIN WIN Day
LaBelleThatcher
01-06-12, 21:52
Directions to the Pro Cathedral:
http://www.procathedral.ie/how-to-find-us
I think I love you incognito :D
Don't give us so much warning in future Pat! :)
Still, we have to do SOMETHING...
I think I love you incognito :D
Don't give us so much warning in future Pat! :)
Still, we have to do SOMETHING...
Peleeeeeeaaassse,
I've just eaten.
cool! seeing as it is a celebration of sex workers we need gifts!
how about a free day of advertisin for every sex worker!? :)
Vouchers will be handed out at the back of the church, after you've spent your week there :)
What the Irish Times was saying about the prostitutes in Lyon in 1975
Amelia Babe
01-06-12, 22:05
Vouchers will be handed out at the back of the church, after you've spent your week there :)
i would happily go and occupy a church pat. will ei sponsor the costs :)
but seriously i think it wud be a lovely way 2 say thank u to ur advertisers for usin the site, a nice token for sex workers too. especially since payment by card is now more expensive.
Don't give us so much warning in future Pat! :)
I thought an old girl like you Belle was probably there in 1975! :D
More of what the Irish Times was saying about the prostitutes in Lyon in 1975
LaBelleThatcher
01-06-12, 22:13
I thought an old girl like you Belle was probably there in 1975! :D
Oi, you speak fer yerself...I was still a nice girl in '75...didn't put a single stilleto in the Champs Elysees until 1982... :D
Yes discount for advertisers.....:D
June 2 is International Sex Workers Day.
Thirty-seven years ago on 2nd June 1975, sex workers began a week-long occupation of Saint-Nizier church in Lyon, France.
This event was the birth of the European sex workers' movement.
150 women, men and trans sex workers staged a multi-day sit-in at the biggest church in Lyons. They were protesting police harassment and failure to prosecute crimes committed against sex workers.
The protest quickly spread to other churches in France.
"June 2, 1975 made the positive and human side of sex work and sex workers visible in the media and in society. For the first time sex workers talked about sex work as an occupation that one is free to choose and demanded respect for it". - International Committee on the Rights of Sex Workers in Europe (http://www.sexworkeurope.org/)
It sad to see that almost 40 years later here in Ireland there are forces that are trying to rescind all that good work!:angryfire: