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My new blog is now online. It contains everything I’ve posted here.
It’s attached to my new site which I am very proud of.
I won’t be updating this blog any more, so please update your Blogroll or Bookmarks accordingly.
Bye bye Blogger, it’s been fun.
Thank you for taking the time to listen to this announcement. Please enjoy your flight. 
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Thanks to a thread on Punternet Forums, I have been reading some bullshit fascinating reports on prostitution. These reports all have something in common. If you look up the authors, you will inevitably find out that they are not just feminists, but activistic feminists of the extreme variety. The kind of feminists who seem to be irresistibly drawn to working for such organisations as Rape Crisis. A few minutes of digging around on the internet for articles by said feminists leads one to wonder whether they work there purely based on the urge to use the phrase “Male violence against women” as often as possible.
Jan Macleod says in this article
PROSTITUTION is referred to as the oldest profession and is said to be inevitable because it's always been here. That's what people said about slavery.
Surely we want a Scotland where people have the right to live in safety and respect - how can we achieve that if we are prepared to tolerate women being used and abused in prostitution?
Most women enter prostitution because of lack of choice. It is the men buying sex who are exercising free choice.
Slavery? Used and abused? Lack of choice?
I will say here and now though, that I have more time for the opinions of Margo MacDonald, who is quoted further down in the same article. At least she has the sense to realise that the more laws are brought in to end prostitution, the more it will be driven underground. The further underground it goes, the more dangerous it becomes.
Another article from the same newspaper is imaginatively titled “Sex Industry in Scotland: Inside the deluded minds of the punters”
Nice eh?
This piece starts with the line:
“ALMOST half the punters who use prostitutes in Scotland are so deluded that they believe the women actually enjoy having sex with them.”
Now tell me, what exactly is wrong with that? It’s not delusion. It’s fact! We do enjoy it. On some occasions more than others, but that really isn’t the issue.
I wouldn’t mind if the people churning out these articles and reports and campaigning their dungaree clad arses off, were open minded, but these women include the likes of Julie Bindel.
In case you haven’t come across the lovely Ms Bindel, she is the kind of feminist who believes that ALL women should be saved from “daily penetration”.
I’m sure that Ms Bindel would read my website and promptly announce that I am deluded, a victim of male abuse and that I was probably an abused or neglected child. She would be entirely wrong.
I, on the other hand read this article and feel that I know all I ever wish to know about our Julie. I’ll give you a couple of quotes from that one, just in case you can’t be arsed to read it.
“In the late 70s a group of lesbians in Leeds, known as revolutionary feminists (RFs), made a controversial move that resonated loudly for me and many other women. They began calling for all feminists to embrace lesbianism. Appealing to their heterosexual sisters to get rid of men "from your beds and your heads"”
“all feminists can and should be lesbians. Our definition of a political lesbian is a woman-identified woman who does not fuck men. It does not mean compulsory sexual activity with women.”
“ "We think serious feminists have no choice but to abandon heterosexuality," it reads. "Only in the system of oppression that is male supremacy does the oppressor actually invade and colonise the interior of the body of the oppressed." It also asserted that penetration "is more than a symbol, its function and effect is the punishment and control of women"”
“For me, however, my lesbianism is intrinsically bound up with my feminist politics and my campaigning against sexual violence.”
“I think it's time for feminists to re-open the debate about heterosexuality, and to embrace the idea of political lesbianism. We live in a culture in which rape is still an everyday reality, and yet women are blamed for it, as it is viewed as an inevitable feature of heterosexual sex. Domestic violence is still a chronic problem for countless women in relationships with men. Women are told we must love our oppressors, while, as feminists, we fight to end the power afforded them as a birthright. Come on sisters, you know it makes sense. Stop pretending you think lesbianism is an exclusive members' club, and join the ranks. I promise that you will not regret it.”
So…. Ms Lesbian by choice Bindel can make an informed choice to become a man hating pain in the posterior, but because I disagree with her, she would say that I am wrong and that I should not have the right to be a man-loving, lady of negotiable affection?
I love men, men of all shapes, sizes and ages. I choose to work as an escort. I don’t work on the streets, I don’t have a drug habit, I am not trafficked.
By all means ladies, do all you can to stop the horror of trafficking. Rid this country of sexual-slavery.
Combat poverty so that women need never prostitute themselves out of desperation.
BUT!!!
Not all of us are here for any of those reasons. Whether you like it or not, some of are educated ladies who love sex, love men and love what we do for a living.
I challenge these radical feminists and political lesbians to speak to women like me. Include us in their reports. Add us to their statistical data. But they will never do that. It doesn’t fit in with their crusade and if they did, they would twist our words and make assumptions based purely on their narrow minded beliefs.
The only fear of oppression I have, does not come from the male of our species. It is the fear that these women will get their way and my career/lifestyle of choice will be made illegal. If that happens, I shall take great delight in pitching my tent on Julie’s lawn (that - dear reader - is NOT a euphemism).
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Ok, I’m going to come clean with you all. I shall make my confession. Purge my conscience.
I’m only doing this because I recently found out that I’m not the only one. I thought it was just me with this deviant addiction. This shameful secret, but no. There is at least one other like me.
Brace yourselves, make sure you are seated. Those of you with nervous dispositions should make sure that you have your medication close to hand. Possibly there are those of you who should not read further whilst alone.
Ok… ready?
I am a stationeryholic.
I can’t help myself. I know it’s wrong and shameful, but I love it! 
Office supplies just float my boat.
Notebooks, pens, pencils, diaries. I have mountains of them. I browse eBay for new and exciting shades of paper. A pen with a cute bunny dangly thing? I must have it! Fountain pens, cartridge pens, biros, gel pens, highlighters, propelling pencils, HB, 2B (or not to be), 4B. rulers, rubbers (fnarr fnarr), sharpeners. Oh, I’m getting excited just listing them all.
It’s a bloody good job I don’t work somewhere with a stationery cupboard. 
Well I say Dundee, it’s actually Carnoustie.
I am writing this blog whilst hanging out the patio doors with laptop in hand. The signal is terrible here. :(
The phones have just about enough signal to work, so it’s not all bad and I’ve met some lovely gentlemen while I’ve been here.
Anyway… Last day today and then I’m off back home until the 25th when I’m back to Aberdeen, so if you want to see me while I’m here, grab your phone and give me a call. :)
Amanda
xx
I am just about to do my ironing and pack my frillies. I leave for Dundee in the morning. I’ve never been to Dundee, so I’m really looking forward to it.
I’ll be working in the afternoon/evening and then all day Wednesday and Thursday.
Don’t forget that Laura Lee will be there as well and duos are available.
See you soon 
I only got one Easter egg 
Ok, that could be something to do with the fact that I’m not all that keen on chocolate. The one egg I got is still virtually intact and it’ll probably take me weeks to work my way through it. I have had lots of presents for Easter though. The cats have been on a mouse killing spree and they keep presenting me with half eaten rodents.
Anyway, enough of that. I’m off to Aberdeen again tomorrow to play
Ok, back to reality, she’d kill me if I tried that.
We keep saying that we’re going to take lots of lovely new photos each time we’re on tour, but we keep forgetting. So if you meet a tall woman on the streets of Aberdeen who is wandering around chanting “Don’t forget pics, don’t forget pics” under her breath, then that will be me.
