What I read today
Three articles.
“Confessions of a Sydney sex worker” published in Honi Soit, the University of Sydney SRC’s student publication. Excerpt:
Those who stay for protracted periods of time tend to want to talk. Which drives me crazy because when I interact with adults, generally I expect a level of conversation higher than what I get from dealing with idiots my own age, but alas, they never fail to bore me with the details of their mundane lives; either they have a wife who they cannot share their desires with or they are from an area or a time hostile to homosexuals and never had the opportunity to be with another guy…
We do provide a valuable service though, we allow them to fulfil fantasies that would otherwise hurt more innocent members of society. That is, I and those who I have worked with, have noticed a disproportionate number of clients who want to pretend that they are sleeping with young boys.
“Poxy Votes of Unrepresented Swill” in the SMH, from a frustrated and unsuccessful local government candidate. Excerpt:
Thanks to those folk who queued up at pre-poll and again on the day to vote informal. It could be viewed as a noble silent protest except for the anatomical references and detailed artwork on the ballot papers.
“Can human consciousness survive without a brain?” in the Guardianblog:
Sam Parnia has been awarded a big grant to find out whether the human spirit leaves the body at death – whether consciousness can survive when the brain is no longer working. He, and colleagues around the world, will place an image on a platform suspended from the ceiling of hospital wards and resuscitation areas, so that the image cannot be seen from below but could be seen if – during a near-death experience – the patient’s consciousness left his body.
I’ve come to realise that full-time employment impacted significantly on my ability to spend hours trawling the internet for crap like this. Still, the money was useful.
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