Looks like I didn't start this old TDF thread over here.
This is an interesting article on an interesting website. I'm still unsure what society needs to do about the whole prostitution issue, but one thing I do know is that we should pay more attention to what sex-workers (past and present) have to say.
What is the Nordic Model? = the Sex Buyer Law, or the Swedish/Abolitionist/Equality Model.
The Nordic Model decriminalises all those who are prostituted, provides support services to help them exit, and makes buying people for sex a criminal offence. This reduces the demand that drives sex-trafficking.
This approach has now been adopted in Sweden, Norway, Iceland, N.Ireland & Ireland, Canada, France, and Israel.
A frank 2.5k words, and just one of many real-life testimonials on the site >
I had the textbook middle-class upbringing with a healthy and happy home life ... (yet I) spent a quarter of my life as an escort, brothel worker and then a madam.
I am the woman you would walk next to along the street, and envisage was a college student or someone working a ‘square job’.
https://nordicmodelnow.org/testimonial/a-piece-of-me-andrea-heinz/
On a much lighter note, this is very well written and I found it really funny!
3k words on eating foods previously avoided ...
Just came across this website - very interesting, readable articles >
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https://www.currentaffairs.org/2022/11/the-1-are-many-times-worse-than-the-rainforest-wreckers
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This is a very interesting multi-faceted story, very well told (5k words) >
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/mar/18/my-mother-troll-of-madeleine-mccann-parents
This is an interesting data journalism thread (and unrolled here).
Sounds obvious now, but I had absolutely no idea.
THE GAMBLER WHO BEAT ROULETTE - 6.5k words, and a ready-to-go Netflix miniseries.
Friday Long Read: What To Do About AI - a well-written 3.5k words, looking back and looking forwards. Check the comments, too.
https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2023/04/friday-long-read-what-to-do-about-ai/
6k words ...
"Hall and Murdoch finalized their divorce two months later. (One of the terms of the settlement was that Hall couldn’t give story ideas to the writers on Succession.) "
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/04/rupert-murdoch-cover-story
"Hall and Murdoch finalized their divorce two months later. (One of the terms of the settlement was that Hall couldn’t give story ideas to the writers on Succession.) "
Some very interesting new insights, there.
Long read by Naomi Klein, no less (4k words) ...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/08/ai-machines-hallucinating-naomi-klein
I read that a couple of days ago. Well worth it.
