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Fen Wilde
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Gillian Flynn, Jilly Cooper, Lionel Shriver
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Sex Work is Real Work
I have been thinking a lot about the woman who I want to honour by name, but who’s privacy has already been destroyed in the most horrifying manner. And even after writing that sentence, after all this thinking, I get stuck with just tears. For so many reasons, on so many levels.
Anyway. You know her name.
And in light of Ruined, and what I wanted to convey – that sex work is real work, and sex work
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“I have a plethora of adjectives like “luminous” and “extraordinary” tucked away for my consideration. Phrases like “you don’t belong here” to comfort and enrage me, to take home at 5 a.m.
Like a man in a strip club might know where I belong.”
― Close
Like a man in a strip club might know where I belong.”
― Close
“I’m also suddenly all over the idea of lust. Previously, I had scoffed at it. Sure, I looked at people and could see they were hot, or sexy, or desirable. But it had all been in my head—it wasn’t a feeling in my body. It wasn’t a force of nature, taking my breath away. It wasn’t something that made me wonder if I could actually keep my body in check, keep it from hurling itself against someone, primal and hungry and out of control.”
― Close
― Close
“I’m also suddenly all over the idea of lust. Previously, I had scoffed at it. Sure, I looked at people and could see they were hot, or sexy, or desirable. But it had all been in my head—it wasn’t a feeling in my body. It wasn’t a force of nature, taking my breath away. It wasn’t something that made me wonder if I could actually keep my body in check, keep it from hurling itself against someone, primal and hungry and out of control.”
― Close
― Close
“I have a plethora of adjectives like “luminous” and “extraordinary” tucked away for my consideration. Phrases like “you don’t belong here” to comfort and enrage me, to take home at 5 a.m.
Like a man in a strip club might know where I belong.”
― Close
Like a man in a strip club might know where I belong.”
― Close
“You’ll get over it…” It’s the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. You don’t get over it because ‘it” is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not made anodyne by death. This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no-one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?”
― Written on the Body
― Written on the Body
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