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Author: Rae Story

Rae Story is a former sex worker and sex industry critical feminist, currently residing in the U.K. She is the author of both academic and journalistic writings on sex industry culture, and is broadly critical of the move towards the industrialization of prostitution. You can follow her @raycstory on Twitter or humor her musings further at www.inpermanentopposition.wordpress.com
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Rae Story

During the final year of my undergraduate degree, in a small, rural city in the south of England, I was supplementing my fragile self esteem with an over-the-counter laxative habit. I told people around me that my newly svelte frame came courtesy of my giving up alcohol (a fair-weather friend) and adopting a Japanese “eating […]

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