so i got back from amsterdam late friday night, had work on saturday and stayed at jame's till sunday (today) afternoon, so have yet to really sum up my trip.

The whole point of this trip was to

a) meet some women who work in the sex industry

I had tried for a few months to get in contact with some women who work in brothels/massage parlours here in england, but always met with resistance and an unwilling attitude, even though i stated several times that it would be done very very legit and i would not require any identities. Still all of the women i tried to contact said no or hung up...short of actually going to work in one of these houses, (which believe me i considered had it not been for my boyfriend) i would have never been able to gather information, other than constant speculation on my recurring rejections.

b) experience a different culture which has relaxed views on sex and the sex industry, the dutch have a generally more relaxed and open sexuality, im still not sure why, growing up there, your not exposed to the sex totally but there is a more open attitude towards it all.

But yes it was a very fruitful trip, i got two very useful interviews and a few little ones here and there. did alot of sound recoding notes and drawings, and throughly experienced the red light area and went through alot of conflicting emotions while i engaged in the usual practices there.

This coming tuesday i am going to be creating an installation of all my findings so if any one wants to come along to that, great, it'll be at uni (howard gardens)

i don't really want to decribe or write down to much of what i got up to because its partly to do with hearing it in person and asking and answering questions in my final piece.
but in the installation on tuesday you can hear all my sound recordings of the trip.

i've just been reading up on COYOTE which is an organisation for the de-crimilisation of sex workers...which i think is my stand point...but i think im going to write up a few of my own thoughts/solutions and what not on the subjects.