A week after the United Kingdom banned a lengthy list of sex acts in pornography, a massive pub(l)ic protest will go down just outside the Houses of Parliament. At noon this Friday, #PornProtest will induce many shocks in Westminster: the shocked faces of bystanders, the shocked morals of politicians, and the shocked crotches of participants.
According to London 24, around 500 people will “boggle the minds of MPs with a ‘Sex Factor’ gameshow” featuring “fully-clothed participants pretending to take part in the perfectly legal acts.”
Charlotte Rose, Sex Worker of the Year 2013 and the woman behind the protest, says: “These laws are not only sexist but they taking away people’s choices without consent. Personal liberty is what we are fighting for on Friday which no one has the right to take away from somebody else.”
Charlotte first became involved in the adult industry as a bondage model at the age of 17. She worked briefly as a dominatrix before taking a break to start a family and gain a degree.
She returned to sex work as she wanted to “make a difference”, and now works as a sex therapist: “I help people with little or no experience in sex, the elderly and disabled and also couples have healthy sex lives through the teaching of sex skills and I love what I do.”
#PornProtest is not Charlotte’s first foray into activism. As well as being a highly-respected sex worker, she is also a seasoned political campaigner.
The protest will include the banned-but-legal act of face-sitting, as well as an attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the largest gathering of face-sitters. I assume whether or not said face-sitting is real doesn’t matter to Guinness, but I’m no expert. On world records, that is.
Source: London 24
