LONDON SEX WEEKEND

Erotic Awards Gathering

Regent's Park at the Bandstand
Sunday 2nd May noon-1.30
(Bakerloo Line open, Jubilee not)



LIST OF EROTIC AWARDS SPEAKERS

Mikey Argy Political Liaison Officer of the recently successful thalidomide compensation campaign. She's an Erotic Awards Finalist as a striptease artist where she showed us “another way”.

Copstick Pioneer who goes to Kenya to teach sex workers how to avoid unsafe sex with truck driver clients, by using safer alternatives. She has funded this good work with the Porn Week Reality Show, charging enthusiasts to come and observe porn being created, later sold to TV.

Jane Fae (formerly John Ozimek) One of the most consistently authoritative, questioning and witty voices in the media covering sex and the law.

Professor Stephen Guest Professor of Legal Philosophy, Faculty of Law, UCL whose lunchtime lecture on the importance of the freedom of thought in London last year was overflowing. His message: “This government has done so much damage to the criminal law, poking its nose in everywhere and deciding things on our behalf, about such things as our personal and private taste.  It makes my blood boil, and I can see that other people are incensed, too”.

Pye Jakobsson Internationally renowned Swedish sex worker and campaigner who tells the world how the “Swedish model” of banning the buying of sex just does not work.

Dr Antony Lempert GP and coordinator of the Secular Medical Forum who says, “I hold to account those people and organisations who espouse potentially dangerous views or who are engaged in harmful practices. This is particularly the case in the sphere of religion, where entrenched traditional religious privilege so often conflicts with other people’s dignity, autonomy and safety.”

Clair Lewis  Founder, public face and voice of the Consenting Adult Action Network (CAAN) which, with Ben Westwood, campaigns against our Extreme Pornography legislation.

Sir Guy Masterleigh arriving in a trap drawn by sister pony girls.

Jo Phoenix Reader, Criminology, School of Applied Social Sciences, Durham University who edited the book “Regulating Sex For Sale: Prostitution Policy Reform in the UK” She will be speaking about the UK’s creeping abolitionism “in the name of protection”.

Catherine Stephens  An activist with the International Union of Sex Workers and a member of the GMB trades union’s branch for people who work in the sex industry. She is contributor to Harlot's Parlour and loves her job.