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SUMMARY:Where is the intimacy in sex work? A discussion with Claire Jayne 
 and Sophie Day - Professor Sophie Day and Dr Jay Levy
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DESCRIPTION:We invite you all to a discussion about sex work between Clair
 e Jayne and Professor Sophie Day (Goldsmiths). Claire Jayne has been a ful
 l time sex worker for seven years\, mainly catering to married men seeking
  out intimacy. Sophie Day has worked academically on issues of sex work in
  London.\n\nWe constructed the current issue of the King's Review around q
 uestions of intimacy and at the event we will try to address how this conc
 ept relates to understandings of sex work\, as well as surrounding discour
 ses and legislation. We will start with two brief accounts of Claire Jayne
  and Prof. Day addressing questions such as: How is intimacy constructed a
 nd conceived in the context of sex work and how can these understandings b
 e problematic? How do reductive and heteronormative understandings of inti
 macy and the body further stigmatize sex workers? How does the state and l
 aw disrupt the intimate personal space of sex workers' domestic lives? We 
 will focus on questions from the audience for the remainder of the time.\n
 \nWe want to use this event to launch our new print issue\, featuring arti
 cles on intimacy\, which you will be able to buy fresh from the press.\n\n
 A brief reception will follow the discussion.\n\nAll are welcome and we in
 vite sex workers especially to attend and participate in the discussion.\n
 In order to allow for a safe space we will follow Chatham House Rules (htt
 p://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatham_House_Rule).\nShould anyone have any spe
 cial requirements or concerns please contact us on editors@kingsreview.co.
 uk.\n\n\n\nBiographical information:\n\nClaire Jayne (pseudonym) has for 7
  years been a full time Sex Worker. She is also a published Photographer i
 n London\, who holds a degree in Biochemistry and Genetics from La Trobe U
 niversity\, a Post Graduate Diploma in Criminology from Melbourne Universi
 ty and will in 2015 commence a Masters program. In this\, she will explore
  the role of gender representation of women though the photographic image 
 with an emphasis on the sex worker community of central London. The Master
 s will examine the extent to which many current images of sex workers redu
 ce them to providers of the mechanics of sex \, often at the price of redu
 cing not only their humanity but also their sensuality\, thus contributing
  to the stigma of sex work. She is currently working an a photographic ess
 ay called 'Whoretography' The project is a serious of portraits of sex wor
 kers\, those in sex worker support roles and the men who use the services 
 of sex workers. The project aims to humanise sex workers and the men who p
 ay for sex. The will be an exhibition with an accompany website and a fine
  art coffee table book.\n\nProfessor Sophie Day studied at Cambridge Unive
 rsity\, Stanford University\, Ca.\, and the London School of Economic and 
 Political Sciences\, where she completed a PhD on spirit possession in Lad
 akh\, North India. She holds a Visiting Chair at the School of Public Heal
 th\, Imperial College\, London and is currently working there half-time al
 ongside her post at Goldsmiths. She was awarded the Eileen Basker Prize an
 d the Wellcome Medal for Anthropology as Applied to Medical Problems for h
 er 2007 monograph\, 'On the Game: Women and Sex Work'.\nLondon: Pluto Pres
 s.
LOCATION:Keynes Hall in Kings College
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