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Sex industry contacts

 
 
Scrubb is on a downward spiral
07:36 / 04.03.02
For entirely academic and worthy reasons, I'm trying to get hold of anyone in academia (UK or otherwise) who has direct contacts with the sex industry, especially vidoes/magazines. I'm assuming that these people will be in the Gender Studies/ Cultural Theory departments, although I need people with direct knowledge, not just theory bitches. Plums has given me some excellent starters, but I need more! Anyone?
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
13:42 / 04.03.02
Think if someone could move this into the headshop it might be more useful to George...

... who has asked me to reassure the populace that this isn't a clever ruse to get lots of prostitutes' phone numbers (well that's what ze told me, anyway)

Anywaaay, was talking to a (computer programmer) mate last night who said that as far as tech. goes, Japan is definitely at the cutting edge, and futhermore that video-mobiles are already in circulation there.

Will try and dig for refs this week...
 
 
Mystery Gypt
23:49 / 04.03.02
get in touch with Anne Mclintock, who teaches at Columbia University. or at least she did when i was there. she was an amazing teacher, and she editted the issue of Social Text that was all about sex industry and had articles by Candida Royale, etc. She wrote a book called Imperial Leather about colonial theory and BDSM. she rocks. as i recall, she was having a difficult time with the admin when i was there so maybe she split town to a more hospitable environ (who would think that the uni with Spivak would be so anti-cultural studies, but its true). But at least its a start -- she's yr lady.
 
 
Disco is My Class War
04:51 / 09.03.02
There's an interesting woman called Kath Albury who teaches at UNSW in Sydney and has just written a book about heterosexual sex and whether it can be subversive or not. I'm gonna see her on Tuesday so maybe I can pass her details on...
 
  
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