Not For Sale --

[defendandprotect]

03.25.10 - 10:18 PM
Not For Sale


Johanna Siguroardottir is Iceland's first female and the world's first openly lesbian head of state.

Iceland just passed a law banning all strip clubs, making it the first country to ban stripping for feminist rather than religious reasons. The tiny country has a strong women's movement and the world's first openly gay head of state, and almost half its politicians are women.

"It is not acceptable that women or people in general are a product to be sold." - Kolbrún Halldórsdóttir, the politician who first proposed the ban.

http://www.commondreams.org/further/2010/03/25-2

[Enthusiast]

1. Good for her! nt

[Cetacea]

2. K&R

[defendandprotect]

3. I like it --- !!!

[musette_sf]

4. K&R

[thelordofhell]

5. You can BUY a stripper??

I thought you just rented them.

[Lorien]

6. That's not really the whole story. Iceland was becoming a stop over for human

traffickers. Strip Clubs had become home to a number of prostitution and sex slave rings, so shutting them down was one way of addressing the problem.

[defendandprotect]

8. Think the other night they were doing a story on slave traffficking in our suburbs!!

Rise of the right, wherever it occurs, compounds patriarchy's war on women --

Porn is one of patriarchy's main ways of demeaning women, devaluing them.

[Odin2005]

7. I don't think it this will work, it will just drive it underground.

[Liberal_in_LA]

9. K&R

[scarletwoman]

10. I heard an interview with her on NPR -- last night, I think. She was absolutely right on.

I'm so proud that Iceland is doing this!