Prostitution: The Stage Show
I’d like to tell you that I’m making this up, but sadly, it is from The Guardian (UK):
“This year, the London Dungeon plans to relaunch its Jack the Ripper show, according to the PR firm, which emailed a support service for women trafficked into Britain for prostitution. “The show will be an actor-led experience with Victorian-era ‘prostitutes’ talking to visitors about the Jack the Ripper killings.”
The firm was hoping that the support service would approach Billie Piper, star of Secret Diary of a Call Girl, to secure her as a “celebrity judge”, who would audition “real” prostitutes for the roles. They were asking the service to put them in touch with prostituted women: “We feel this is an opportunity to help them off the streets,” said the email.”
As the author of the piece puts it,
“Asking women in prostitution, who have been chronically abused and whose lives are constantly in danger, to take part in such a show is insensitive and misguided at best.”
At best. Perhaps misogynist exploitation might be a more adequate description.
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