Women of the world, unite

Fellow workers, it is a time of great rejoicing because our fellow ladies of the night have finally found their way to our masses.

The workers of Lusty Lady, a 25-cent-a-pop peep show in San Francisco, voted last week, 57-15, to join Local 790, Service Employees International Union. This small step for the women of the Lusty Lady, is a giant leap for the sex industry.

Organizations such as Exotic Dancers Alliance and COYOTE (Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics) - both San Francisco-based groups that oversee the treatment of women in the sex industry - are roaring their approval.

These women are finally standing up to a society that at the same time resents and desires them. They are staring in the face of management and thumbing their noses, reminiscent of Sally Field in Norma Rae.

Call me an optimist. Call me a visionary. But don't call me after midnight. I think our anal-repressed, contradictory society is finally seeing the light. Probably not. As many sex industry workers and those affiliated with it will tell you, San Francisco is a microcosm of what or society aspires to be: Alternative, cutting edge and a little on the bad side.

San Francisco recently got a report, two-years in the making, from a task force created to assess the legalization of prostitution. Ahhhh.... San Francisco; Loved by a few, envied by many and misunderstood by a majority.

Leave it to middle America, however, to dash the hopes of us visionaries on the fringes of mainstream society. I'm sure they'll find a way to suppress our growth even more.
The future in my vision is one that abhors death and dismemberment. Today it's portrayed by our media in a frightening way. Sex will have a resurgence. Instead of being ignorant of the benefits sex can have on our society, we will finally be able to grasp the ideology that sex is better than death.

Women will be happy to join organizations that will be able to provide support, better medical service and higher pay. A happy hooker will bring many smiles to her clients.
In my future, AIDS awareness will have saturated our society so deeply that it will be a thing of the past. Pray for the day we can walk into a legal brothel, where the women are clean, the booze is not watered down and the taxes generated by legalization of the sex industry will pay off our national debt.

[ Golden Gater Online September 5, 1996 ]

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