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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
