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After many many years of feminists trumpeting NZ's laws, around hooking, as progressive and pro women, and these laws being put in place in large part by 'our' Helen Clark, there's this: Author Julie Bindel​, a combative radical feminist from England, and former New Zealand sex worker Sabrinna Valisce​ have been making international headlines with their scathing critique and tales of abuse. Speaking from Bergen, Norway, the morning after a book launch, Bindel says her work is a grassroots, investigative expose of legitimised sex work around the world. A prostitution abolitionist, she uses words unlike those used in New Zealand's sex industry.... ...It's not sex workers or prostitutes; it's "prostituted women". Brothel owners are pimps or abusers, no bones about it. Johns or sex buyers aren't always punters; they're also abusers. And the service provided by women in the sex industry is spoken of in violent terms. "Sex for a woman, when you don't want it – in any orifice – is a horrible experience, even when we're not describing it as rape. Calling it work, and doing it over and over again in one day, is a form of torture." more at the link: https://www.stuff.co...celebrates-30th Why do women, who purport to be pro feminist and seem always to be spitting tacks, usually look like Julie above? and very rarely like Brigitte below?