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Gali Cohen: “I’m tired of people talking about us. It’s time to let sex workers speak up for themselves

06/03/2022

Gali Cohen for “Walla!”: OnlyFans is an amazing platform for creating porn independently, without depending on anyone else. Whether we like it or not, porn is used as sex education today for many people. Instead of guilting and criticizing consumers, we could encourage quality porn that teaches a healthy attitude towards sexuality and pleasure. And OnlyFans is a great platform for that. There is no dependence on a boss or director to tell me what to do and with whom. I can just choose to document and publish whatever I enjoy.

Posta: The prosecution has closed the case against strip clubs in Tel Aviv

04/03/2022

About a year after the hearing and the closure of strip clubs on the grounds that the lap dance was an act of prostitution, the state attorney decided not to file any indictments. The prosecution: “The decision does not lead to the conclusion that the clubs complied with the conditions of the law.” Leader of of the strippers’ organization: “Closing the clubs has harmed the personal security of sex workers”

Linor Abergel: “I did not want it, but I do think prostitution also saved me, it saved me from poverty”

19/01/2022

Linor Abergel for Ynet: “The fact that the transgender people went underground does not mean that it is over. I hear from my friends that the more normative clients no longer show up because they are afraid of the law, and that there is an increase in new cases of HIV because the remaining clients want to do it without contraception. This leads to an increase in drug use among sex workers and more cases of violence. Although street prostitution has almost disappeared, indoor prostitution has increased. Enforcement is ultimately only harming women.”

TimeOut: The Big Night of the Strippers – We went out to a show and came back without any trauma

17/12/2021

Talia Shabbat for TimeOut: Now the stigma on them is worse than ever and this is precisely the time when Efrat and a group of strippers decided to go public and star in an evening that aims to support their community. “The goal of the show is to say in a steady and clear voice that we are here, adult and independent women who know how to make decisions about our own lives and want to continue following our profession,” says Rubinstein. “We deserve to be treated with respect, as women in a profession that is artistic-expressive that combines unique music, dance skills and above all – that is as legitimate as any other profession and provides us a good living.”

Tomer Gilat on the Hard Rock Burlesque – An evening of support for Sex Workers in Israel

07/12/2021

What’s the connection between Israeli punk rock and erotic dancing? And how did the Pussycat Strip club come back to life for one evening at the Tmuna Theater? One thing is for sure, you have never been to such a spectacle.

Ilan Shaul: “The Last Lap Dance” – a documentary about freedom and human rights

21/10/2021

Director Isri Halperin in an interview with “Posta” about the film in which he exposed the battle to close the strip clubs in Tel Aviv from the point of view of the strippers, and documented the public struggle of sex workers from close up following the law criminalizing prostitution clients * Halperin: “The Women’s Lobby is a dangerous organization”* This is the movie that your TV channels refuse to show.

Gali Cohen for Haaretz: “I have no problem with nudity. Why not make money for it?”

10/10/2021

Gali Cohen for Haaretz on Isri Halpern’s film “The Last Lap Dance”: To this day, the discussion about strippers has been superficial and manipulative and has been conducted with zero listening to the women that are being talked about. “The Last Lap Dance” shows for the first time the complex side that has been silenced so far – the side of the strippers themselves. It’s time to stop discussing us and our future – without us.

Mako: State Attorney ruled that “Lap Dance” was considered prostitution, strippers petitioned the High Court

16/06/2021

Today (Wednesday) the strippers’ association filed a petition in the High Court against the State Attorney’s directive – which defines the “lap dance” as an act of prostitution. The petition was filed against the directive issued by the State Attorney in May 2019 according to which there are certain circumstances in which the dance can be considered an act of prostitution.

Haaretz: The Tel Aviv Municipality has approved a policy that will make it difficult to open strip clubs in the city

16/09/2020

The Planning and Building Subcommittee has approved a document stating restrictions on the use of property granted to strip clubs without a preliminary hearing. Following criticism voiced at the hearing, it was decided that a supplementary rehabilitation grant would be considered for strippers who remained unemployed […] Efrat Rubinstein of the Strippers’ Association told committee members during the hearing today: “We feel persecuted. We have are being hurt by these actions. We have been unemployed since before the Corona crisis, and many of us are in the private sector.”