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The ‘Swedish model’

Hailed by politicians and feminists in the UK and beyond as the best approach to prostitution, but those in the sex industry claim it does more harm than good.

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Searching for the Exit

Deviance :: Feature 07 Oct 2008

Slutty McWhore: This month I can barely bring myself to write about erotic massage or my life as a sex worker. I've been working as a masseuse in the United States for well over two years now, and boredom and frustration have finally set in, so much so that it pains m...

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore: So Many Ways to Sleep Badly

Deviance :: Books :: Feature 26 Sep 2008

Alma Cork: Imagine the scene: you're taking part in a huge Pride march, an occasion where LGBT people can take to the streets, wave their rainbow flags, and celebrate being out and proud - a glorious gathering of gayness. Only, all of a sudden, the march is confr...

Good Dick

Nothing Like Good Dick?

Deviance :: Film :: Feature 26 Sep 2008

Jenni Cruickshank: A lot of debut writer/directors might find it tricky doing just one new job - what made you decide to take on acting and producing too? Marianna Palka: Originally, I wrote it to be in it – I wanted to be both writer and actress. Then my friend ...

Amy Lamé

Glasgay! 2008, 1 Oct - 9 Nov

Deviance :: Film :: Theatre :: Art :: Clubs :: Preview 23 Sep 2008

Margaret Kirk: There is plenty of queer work these days that tickles mainstream tastes: like a larger than life character on Big Brother, or a token edgy story-line on your favourite daytime soap, sexuality is a useful signifier of exoticism that can actually work to...

XXY

XXY

Deviance :: Film :: Review :: DVD Review 11 Sep 2008

Cara McGuigan: The tense confusion of something unspoken is thick from the opening credits of XXY. Lack of understanding is at the heart of every single frame of the film: nobody really knows what they’re doing, or what the consequences of their actions might ...

Gary Otton

Garry Otton: Radical Historian

Deviance :: Feature 28 Aug 2008

Nine: “Oh my god, he’s so easy to get drunk,” says Garry Otton, of himself. “Half a glass and he’s anybody’s.” We’re having dinner and a bottle of Chablis at the Slug and Lettuce in Edinburgh’s Omni centr...

Lock up your daughters (launch party)

Lock Up Your Daughters #1

Deviance :: Feature :: Review 28 Aug 2008

Gareth K Vile: Kicking off with a delicious rant that blasts the queer movement for inertia and liberalism, Lock Up Your Daughters summons old school punk energy that drove through queercore and riot grrrl before collapsing in Ladyfest. It’s a hefty read, shar...

Fashion Vicitims

Fashion Victims

Fashion :: Deviance :: Film :: Comedy :: Review :: DVD Review 22 Aug 2008

Lindsay West: Despite its vague billing as a risque German 'gay interest' comedy, Fashion Victims is in truth a far straighter affair than the rainbow titles and sartorial subtext might first imply. Looking more like a mortgage advisor than a fashion rep, Wolfgang (...

Sex Shop

Can't buy me love?

Deviance :: Feature 07 Aug 2008

Debbie Martin: The first time I went into a sex shop, it was with a former boyfriend. He persuaded me by degrees. First it was, "Let’s just look in the window." Then, "Let’s buy you some seamed stockings," then, "let’s have a peek at the accessor...

Slutty McWhore Issue 35

The Healing Hooker

Deviance :: Feature 23 Jul 2008

Slutty McWhore: From John Cleland's Fanny Hill to Jack Kerouac's Tristessa, prostitutes - or sex workers in modern parlance - have often made an appearance in works of fiction. It is, however, Scotland's very own Luke Sutherland who has most impressed me with his depi...

Cockettes

QueerMutiny: Queer-A-Go-Go, Aug 2008

Deviance :: Film :: Preview 14 Jul 2008

Jess Travis: QueerMutiny has been radicalizing Edinburgh's gay scene with its 'Do-It-Yourself, Doing-Each-Other, Diversity and Perversity' attitude since January of this year. This 'non-hierarchical kollective' offers an autonomous space free from sexual and gender...

Very Young Girls

Very Young Girls

Deviance :: Film :: Review 27 Jun 2008

Nine: A harrowing look at child prostitution, the documentary Very Young Girls follows Rachel Lloyd and her staff at GEMS in New York, assisting girls who were introduced to 'the life' at an average age of thirteen. The film gives plenty of insight into the ...

LGBT Youth Scotland

LGBT Youth 'National Gathering', Dundee, 5-6 Jul

Deviance :: Preview 23 Jun 2008

Laura Barbour: As a city normally renowned for its "jute, jam and journalism", Dundee is soon to be livened up by LGBT Youth Scotland's 'National Gathering' event. Spanning two days, the event promises to provide support and advice to young people in the form of wor...

Stockholm, Sweden

Safety Before Ideology: Comments on the Swedish Model

Deviance :: Feature 19 Jun 2008

Paul Mitchell: Dynamite, gender equality and flat pack furniture! For a country of just over nine million people, Sweden has punched well above its weight in exporting various ideas around the world. Now we have another one coming our way. Britain, among other count...

Tuppy Owens

Tuppy Owens: Interview with a Love Doctor

Deviance :: Feature 17 Jun 2008

Paul Mitchell: Having brazenly signed off on her emails as 'Dr Tuppy Owens, at the Centre of the Erotic Universe', the lady in question smirks when it is suggested that her home in the Highlands, near Inverness, is an odd location for such an accolade. "Don't be so s...

Tick Tock Lullaby

Tick Tock Lullaby

Deviance :: Film :: DVD Review 16 Jun 2008

Djuna Bee: There’s a scene in Will and Grace where Jack says the "great unspoken gay secret" is that most gay movies are dreadful. Sadly, Tick Tock Lullaby doesn’t do much to disprove this. Sasha (writer and director Gornick) and girlfriend Maya (C...

Head On

Head On

Deviance :: Film :: DVD Review 09 Jun 2008

Djuna Bee : There’s an aching sadness about Head On that you can’t fully fathom until the very end. Over the space of 24 hours, director Ana Kokkinos paints a fantastic picture of 19 year old Ari (Dimitriades): unemployed and living at home in a shab...

Tegan and Sara

Top 5 Deviance Events in June

Deviance :: Heads Up :: Preview 22 May 2008

Nine: Perspectives on sex work and prostitution from Sweden and India 3 Jun, European Room, City Chambers, High St, Edinburgh With speakers Pye Jakobsson on the Swedish model of criminalising sex workers’ clients, and Meena Seshu of SANGRAM, a thousa...

Welcome to Deviance

Deviance :: Feature 21 Apr 2008

Nine: Hello and welcome to the Deviance section. It used to be the LGBT section, but now it’ll be covering a broader range of topics along the gender & sexuality spectrum. And, having conducted numerous behind-the-scenes focus groups, I’m all...

Buck Angel - trans superstar

Reclaiming Trans Sexuality

Deviance :: Feature 21 Apr 2008

Alma Cork: It’s partly due to the sexualisation of transsexuality through porn that many transwomen go to great lengths to point out that their gender has nothing to do with their sexuality; that they’re not transitioning for a thrill. Which is not t...

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