April 15, 2025
They Still Call Us Witches
What drives societies to turn on women in their midst - with accusations, branding, persecution and often violence and death - in the name of witchcraft? Witch hunting occupied a dark chapter in European and early American hi...
Nov. 1, 2024
Buy One, Buy All
The institution of prostitution has received a re-branding in recent times, appropriating terms from labor and the corporate world such as “sex work”, “full-service”, “clients”, “sex workers” “doing bookings” arranged by “man...
Oct. 10, 2024
They Called Us Witches
In the midst of The Enlightenment, when men in the West hailed reason and rationalism, and aspired towards lofty ideals such as liberty, equality and religious tolerance - another darker social phenomenon was taking place. Ov...
Sept. 17, 2024
We Are The Donkeys Here
Motherhood, in our Western culture, is full of contradictions. On the one hand, mothers perform an essential task: creating and nurturing new human life. On the other, the status of mothers is that of general servitude to the...
June 9, 2024
Our Hidden Blueprint
Our economic institutions - capitalism, trade, money, the market - are based on one fundamental principle: Quid Pro Quo. Something For Something. It is said that these systems sprung out of the age-old human tradition of trad...
April 2, 2024
Lures and Traps
If we think of patriarchy as a living, breathing, constantly evolving strategy that finds its expression at all levels of society - socially, economically, politically - its job number one is to control women - and thereby re...
Feb. 19, 2024
A Strange Exchange
In her new book Body Shell Girl , poet and sex trade survivor Rose Hunter brings us into the strange theater that takes place between sex buyers and prostitutes when money is exchanged for various sex acts. Describing the eve...