
I rang up and spoke to Jamie McDonald the host of talking back the night - to raise a sex work question to the callers, bit busy last night so I suggested the following night - ie tonight.
The question I want to ask is why if people who have no issues with sex, and no issues with physical labour or working for money, have issues with sex work? People try to claim its because of diseases when in fact Australian Sex workers have one of the lowest STI rates of any group in the world, or people claim workers being forced into the industry when that is certainly not the case for the vast majority, and many trafficked people are into factories or as building labourers and no one tries to outlaw those industries as a solution to the problem.
I had a fairly lengthy chat to Jamie off the air and he was quite curious and honest that he didn’t know much about the industry, and I had to correct him a few times to say sew worker not prostitute. He seems to be open to having sex work as the main topic of the show, and I think it is a fantastic opportunity for some myth busting and wider education, as well as getting information and ripping apart peoples irrational arguments.
If anyone is awake do tune in on your local or online
mms://2go.stream.integritynet.com.au/2go ( open in media player) the call in number is 132710 and it starts about 11pm. I have been given a direct studio line so I wont have to battle the queue.