#eve smith

[aesthetiq]

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[mumblingsofmemory]

Eve Smith by Jeffrey TK Chan

[woodlandbookclub]

April reading wrap up ✨

Secrets of the Sand & Sea | Clara Sutton 3🌟

How Was It For You? | Eve Smith | Narrator Chloe Massey 3.5🌟

The Spirit Bares Its Teeth | Andrew Joseph White 4.5🌟

Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant | Curtis Chin 4🌟

The Unworthy | Agustina Bazterrica 4🌟

The Knight and the Butcherbird | Alix E. Harrow 4🌟

Family Business | Jonathan Sims 3🌟

[semper-legens]

58. How Was It For You?, by by Eve Smith

Owned?: No, library Page count: 294 My summary: Dungeons, whips, and dildos - the world of a sex worker is associated with the seedy underbelly of society. Enter 'Eve Smith', current dominatrix and former brothel worker, with her candid views on her part in the world's oldest profession. Tangles with the law, good and bad clients, and unusual requests; Eve tells all in an eye-opening view on the realities of sex work in the modern world. My rating: 4/5 My commentary:

Sorry about the fact that I keep taking unplanned hiatuses here and there - I've just got a lot of things going on, so I don't always have the time to write up books for this blog. Anyway, I'm back now, and with a really fascinating book to boot! So I saw this on the shelf at work and, with this fantastic cover design, I couldn't help but pick it up and take a look. While I, personally, am not interested in sex, I still have a bit of a fascination with the sex industry, both historical and modern. It's a backbone of society; one that often gets derided as being seedy or sleazy, but sex work is work the same as any job. My politics very much align with Eve's on this - while people can be exploited in sex work, that's the same as any other job, and the answer to it isn't to blanket criminalise sex work. If someone's been trafficked into sex work or is being exploited, they deserve the ability to go to the authorities without themself being at risk of arrest or imprisonment. With decriminialisation would come regulation, and more checks and balances to protect sex workers from harm. Anyway. Eve is a very eloquent lady, and here's her take on her experiences of sex work!

Eve is loud, opinionated, and articulate - and I don't mean any of that as a bad thing. It sounds like she's had a bad time of it in life, although she doesn't want to be viewed as a victim, which I can understand. The book is told in two alternating narratives - one, the story of her past, how she got into the profession, and her background; two, the more current story of her pregnancy up until the birth of her daughter. She met her boyfriend, 'Adam' (as she's still an active dominatrix, all names used as pseudonyms for privacy purposes) in a brothel and has now settled into what looks very much like an ordinary, mundane existence, aside from her job.

Eve lays it out clearly - she is passionate about the rights of sex workers and wants to have the same protections at work that others enjoy. She has brushed up against the law, having been arrested for her brothel work and had a sum of money essentially stolen from her by the police, and has a criminal record. Specifically for a sexual offense, too, which means she can't do most of the 'legitimate' work that she was doing - she wanted to be an actress, and has done work in children's theatre and with the elderly before. Her story highlights how backwards the law is when it comes to sex work. All it's really interested in is criminalising and punishing sex workers, not in protecting vulnerable people from oppressive forces. Why? What, fundamentally, is wrong with sex work? Nothing, is the answer. And yet, here we are. Eve's account is eye-opening and an argument very well made, and I'd recommend this book to anyone interested in the profession and its modern-day implications.

Next, the Simpsons and the apocalypse.

[duranduratulsa]

Up next on my 80's Fest Movie 🎬 🎞 🎥 🎦 📽 marathon...Romancing The Stone (1984) on glorious vintage VHS 📼! #Movie #movies #actionadventure #romance #romancingthestone #MichaelDouglas #KathleenTurner #dannydevito #zacknorman #MaryEllenTrainor #ripmaryellentrainor #AlfonsoArau #hollandtaylor #ManuelOjeda #EveSmith #tedwhite #riptedwhite #vintage #VHS #80s #80sfest #durandurantulsas6thannual80sfest

[camillasgirl]

It's great to have Her Majesty here because she does really take an interest in the authors, and even if she can't come in previous years she's always made sure that she sees them, whether it was at St James's Palace. And so when we found out that she was going to come - we'd sort of assumed that she wouldn't, just, you know, when the Queen died and she became the Queen Consort, we sort of assumed this might be one of the things that she had to let go, but no, she's here, so it's great. She enjoys being here. I think it's one of those things where, although there is obviously formality around it, there is also a degree of of informality that she really appreciates.

Eve Smith, secretary of the Booker Prize Foundation, on Queen Camilla and her fondness of the Booker Prize, 17.10.2022

[ollierachnid]

loved it when they did very immoral things bless up 🙌

[julianavalds]

You did it. You did it!