We Fought for Decades to End Sexual Oppression. So Why Do so Many Modern Women Now Think Being a Sex Object Is Cool? ; As a Glossy Tv Series Shows Billie Piper Revelling in Life As a Call Girl ...

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MY STREET in West London used to be run-down, in an area which would definitely have once been described as dodgy. The boom of recent years has seen my street move up the property ladder, the rough pub on the corner has been replaced by a faintly fashionable restaurant and the corner shop is now a distinctly upmarket pet emporium, selling dog collars which cost around 100.

But one thing hasn't changed: at the end of the street, any hour of the day or night, there's generally a hooker or two, plying their dangerous trade on the corner, waiting for men to pull up in their expensive cars, in need of 'relief' in the form of quick, casual sex. Even if the women are still young, their faces are lined, their complexions pasty through too many cigarettes and I'm sure through heavy drug use. They all, without exception, look sad and defeated by life.

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We Fought for Decades to End Sexual Oppression. So Why Do so Many Modern Women Now Think Being a Sex Object Is Cool? ; As a Glossy Tv Series Shows Billie Piper Revelling in Life As a Call Girl ...

Just the other day, I was standing in the kitchen with my 24- year-old daughter, when she suddenly pointed across the street at a house, which is being refurbished and thus covered in scaffolding.

One of the street prostitutes had just walked through the rusty gate and descended the steps into the small basement yard, followed by a young man. Ten minutes or so elapsed and they re-appeared. He went one way, she walked off back to her position on the corner of the big road. Business had swiftly been concluded. It makes me shudder to think of i...

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