I
am shortly to speak at the UK Network of Sex Worker's Conference
which is focusing on “Good Practice”. I thought what better form of
good practice than to ask the clients what they would like. I am
focusing on brothels because they are the ideal for selling sex.
I am thus asking you to send me your wishes.
Let me give you some background. I started my survey with a
population of disabled people, before opening it up to the public.
A TV documentary was made by Asta Philpot for the BBC, to bring
attention to the fact that some disabled people need to visit
brothels, and he is continuing his campaign by approaching Larry
Flint in America, to support his cause.
Encouraged by the impact of our demonstration, and the way members
of the House of Lords are recognising the sexual needs of disabled
people, I have decided to ask everybody I can reach, precisely what
they would really like to have provided for them personally, in a
brothel (should they wish).
The Costa Brava brothel in Asta's programme was far from perfect.
For a start, they did not cater to women. The sex workers, sweet as
they were, looked like lap dancers, young and cosmetically enhanced.
The décor was grim: not sexy or glamorous. The brothel also had a
lot going for it: a good sexual service, it provided hoists for
disabled people to get onto the beds, was clean and well-run and,
perhaps best of all, it operated openly, without stigma – a local
guy had come up to Asta in a bar and recommended he pop along.
So, please let me know what you would like, from a personal point of
view, and any special needs dictated by your personal problems,
disability and impairments.
Bear in mind, brothels can cater to many different needs – not just
sex. They can be seats (or beds, to be more precise) of learning,
anxiety reduction, confidence building, off-loading guilt, shame,
sadness and confusion, experimentation, cuddling, touching and lying
in bed with someone. They can also be places where you can get
beaten shitless, tied up, humiliated, or try a little spanking or
torment, cross-dressing, see women in polo-neck jumpers, women
popping balloons, and experience your own personal fetish. They can
provide sex parties, straight sex, gay sex, and whatever your
fantasy dictates. That is why they are rather good.
My dream brothel would be a place where all pleasures are catered
for, offering dinner, drinks, dancing, gambling, erotic shows,
treatment rooms, a Tantric Temple, chill-out rooms and a cinema as
well as bedrooms, a dungeon, fetish rooms. This mix would hopefully
take away the stigma and make the brothel acceptable in polite
society.
I would base my dream brothel along the lines of a top hotel, as
these are the only places on earth where both sex workers and
disabled people are treated as respectfully as other guests. Top
hotels are very strict about this. Their staff never know when
royalty are coming in to have a laugh or politicians are just taking
the weight off their feet!
Staff would be trained to communicate with deaf and deaf-blind
clients, as well as spinal injured and other disabled people.
I am inspired by the fact that jazz music came out of the brothels
of New Orleans and Tango came from the brothels of Argentina. Both
forms of music were fusion music, designed to fire people up.
Brothels can, if left to run in the spirit of bon amie rather than
fear and shame, be centres of cultural influence.
I've never been one to ask for much, have I? But while the topic is
being debated on the political agenda, let's state what we want.
Please send me your requests. I will put everything into a document,
display it on-line and present it at the conference I’m speaking at
in early June.
Madame Cynthia Payne can open the first brothel, and bring back her
luncheon voucher scheme for disabled and pensioners.
Send to me at
mail@sfc.org.uk preferably including any details of your
personal needs, disabilities and impairments, so I can present your
case accordingly.
Plans
for a LGBT centre offering health and social care services, business
support and an exhibition space in Soho are moving forward.
The
lease of Burnham-On-Sea's Shakers Night Club has been put up on sale.
The club and bar on the High Street has been closed for several months
and has undergone a substantial refurbishment.
Nutters
have won their long-running fight to stop a Boldon company opening a lap
dancing club in Durham City.
Police
have released a still image of the moment an arsonist appears to
accidentally set himself alight whilst starting the blaze at the Redd
club in Burgess Hill.
West
Ham MP Lyn Brown has added her voice to the nutter opposition against a
proposed lap dancing club in Stratford.
Plans
to give greater powers to local communities to determine whether lap
dancing clubs should be set up in their area will be unveiled by the
Conservatives today.
In
the UK, there has been much discussion over how adult entertainment
should be regulated on the Internet. Parliament has been considering
some controversial legislation that would make it a felony to download
what some British politicians have been loosely describing as "extreme
pornography," and the BBFC — which has been critical of the proposed
"extreme porn" law — is launching a voluntary program that will extend
its rating system to online entertainment, including erotica. 
Feminists
will doubtless be appalled at the news that 27 years after the original
Playboy Club in London closed its doors, the bunny has bounced back.
In
the last two months, Westminster Council licensing inspectors have
raided and closed down two illegal hostess bars, which lured men in
under the false premise of adult entertainment then charged them
exorbitant rates for soft drinks in the company of hostesses. One of
these hostess bars was also an illegal gambling club.
New
controls on lap-dancing clubs are planned by the Government following
the nutter outcry over their rapid proliferation across the country.
The
Government is open to the idea of re-classifying lap-dancing clubs as
sex encounter rather than entertainment venues.
30th
October - 2nd November 2008
A
battle the very soul of Scotland will shortly erupt in Holyrood,
when Kenny MacAskill, the justice secretary, lays the Sexual
Offences Bill before parliament in the next week or so.
A
poster, for a For Your Eyes Only table dancing club, showed a
group of semi-naked women lying down together; they were wearing only
knickers and their arms covered their breasts. Text stated FOR YOUR
EYES ONLY The Ultimate Table Dancing Club ... OPENING 22 FEBRUARY 2008.
Newcastle
council faced an angry nutter backlash after ruling out objections to
shows featuring scantily clad dancers in a shower cubicle.
A
plan to turn a pub into a strip joint was refused in front of a packed
town hall chamber this week.
Nutters
say an increasing number of MPs are joining their fight to give local
authorities greater power over lap-dancing clubs.
Fifteen
people arrested as part of an operation targeting brothels operating via
the internet in central London are still being questioned by police. The
arrests were made when more than 100 officers searched 19 premises.