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Topic History of: Janet Street Porter Max. showing the last 5 posts - (Last post first)
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Honey
Barney wrote: JSP's specific example is totally innocent and blameless - to all concerned/involved.
A pal of mine has a mate in the West End who owns a pub - he (the governor) often slips her a few G&Ts for nothing.
Whether there's anything going on between then, I don't know. Who cares - they're both adults?
Honey has adopted a somewhat holier than thou approach - to a totally normal and benign arrangement.
If JSP wasn't happy with her role, and return - she wouldn't have told us.
Some of us can be rather hypercritical and overdramatic. I mean 'sex slave'..!¡
I think it is overdramatic to call Prince Andrew's "victim" a sex slave but as Mr King says, that's the way things are now, and you cant pick and choose.
Barney
Force and coercion - where? By whom - and how to you know?
A physical relationship between consenting adults, with a financial dimension. Hardly a crime; even the sexual partner is anonymous.
Never watched a full episode of Loose Women - but aren't they paid to be outrageous.
Hasbeens regularly providing stories of abuse, sexual exploits and misdemeanors - on the show.
Off with their heads...
JK2006
I'm with Honey; JSP a ghastly woman; of course there's nothing wrong with her managing to force an unwilling person to participate in sex (how else would she get it?) but times have changed; in those days it was fine; these days it has become the equivalent of rape. Like it or not, consider it mad or not, that's the way things are in 2020. JSP is too stupid to realise, blurting things like this out. Our hope must be that the abused person re-invents his or her historical situation and goes to police.
Barney
JSP's specific example is totally innocent and blameless - to all concerned/involved.
A pal of mine has a mate in the West End who owns a pub - he (the governor) often slips her a few G&Ts for nothing.
Whether there's anything going on between then, I don't know. Who cares - they're both adults?
Honey has adopted a somewhat holier than thou approach - to a totally normal and benign arrangement.
If JSP wasn't happy with her role, and return - she wouldn't have told us.
Some of us can be rather hypercritical and overdramatic. I mean 'sex slave'..!¡
Honey
Randall, I agree, in principal. It seems to me that having it off with directors in exchange for parts is a straightforward business transaction. But when it is (much later) deemed assault (and worse) because of the imbalance of power, How much worse is that imbalance of power when your (rich and powerful) landlady is demanding sex in exchange for a roof over your head.
It just seems to me very hypocritical to bleat on and on about it when you have done something similar herself.
I am pretty sure that if it was a male landlord and a young woman we would be calling her a sex slave.
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