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Costing and commoditising virginity

By Matthew Holloway - posted Monday, 19 December 2011


Both these practices are illegal in our society as they affect the most vulnerable members of the community.

On vulnerability, we need to question why both these cases involve women who have limited incomes.

One case shows an international student, the other two are workers from the notoriously low paid hospitality sector.

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It is time to take an introspective look at society when two vulnerable women see their only way of obtaining a slice of the Australian dream is through the prostitution of purity.

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Matthew Holloway is a freelance writer and social justice advocate from Tasmania, where he stood for state and federal parliament and co-founded Tasmanians for Transparency. He has previously written for Tasmanian Times and Eureka Street, Matthew currently lives in Melbourne where he works as a Counsellor in Aboriginal Health and a Social Worker in Catholic social services.

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