London photo: “This Is Not a Brothel“

Tue, Nov 18, 2014

notabrothel

On a door in Soho. I’ve walked by this house a hundred times and never noticed it before this week. Maybe because I wasn’t looking for a brothel. (Thanks to my pal Nikki for pointing it out.)

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bronxbee

Tue, Nov 18, 2014 10:49pm

there must be an interesting tale that goes with that.

reply to bronxbee

Thu, Nov 20, 2014 1:45am

I found it. Look at the last paragraph of “Background” on this wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastian_Horsley

LaSargenta

reply to MC

Thu, Nov 20, 2014 12:33pm

That was both a tragic and repellant link. Pretty much everyone listed or quoted in that article seems to be a mix of the two.

And, seriously, Mr. Horsley himself seems like a grade A-1 prime asshole: “He argued that prostitution should not be legalized, as that would take away part of its thrill.” Oh, Mr.-I’m-So-Miserable-Because-Of-My-Upbringing-And-Can’t-Deal-With-Intimacy, you want the sex workers you romantacise to remain without legal protections themselves? So if a hustler is raped, he — at best — gets to claim only theft of services? So they can get done for tax evasion but have no way to declare “illegal” earnings? I won’t witter on, but, really??!