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A ‘police officer’ on stage at the Poetry Cafe’s sex industry night |
X-rated rhyme! Sex industry poetry night
SEX and poetry are not unfamiliar bedfellows, but the Poetry Cafe in Covent Garden hadn’t heard a recital quite like this before.
Wordsworth may never have seen a red light district, but he was
X-rated for the 19th-century and probably would have approved of the night organised by the sex workers branch of the GMB Union, billed as a night of “poetry and striptease”. There were raunchy rhymes, lap dances and readings to showcase another side of an industry often overshadowed by negative portrayals of exploitiation and trafficking.
The night was intended to open up the industry to the public, as compere Chris Student said: “How many members of the public have actually met or spoken to a sex worker?” |
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