If you were around in the 1950s, you remember that employment ads in the newspaper were conveniently divided by gender: there were separate listings for “female” jobs and “male” jobs. The 1964 Civil Rights Act ended that, when the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission was formed to eliminate discrimination in the workplace. Today, a want ad reading “female secretary wanted” or “male taxi driver wanted” is almost unthinkable. So now we’re all free to pursue any job for which we’re qualified, and whose conditions are acceptable to us, right? Almost. Escorts and providers of erotic services, unfortunately, face enormous criticism and…
Changing the Way People, Politics & the Media Look at Sex