A Naked Industry

By Aaron Grierson Entertainment: illegal. Employment: dangerous. Each of these words has been used to describe the pornography industry. It is one of the longest standing industries and has grown in variety, if not popularity. This is due largely to the advent of the internet, which is connected to...

Breaking Bonds

By Salman Latif What prostitution really means. Ever since humans started to live in groups and communities, they began to develop a set of regulations which would govern their way of life. Over millennia, as humanity has evolved, so has its concept of morality. We have come a long way from the moral canons...

The Hard Work of Poetry

By Salli Shepherd Poets are constantly crippled, creatively. It’s the way it works. You write a line and, just now, right now, it seems like it’s the best line in the world to date. It’s a shiny, beautiful line, a thought, an image so remarkably profound that you are in awe of yourself, or...

The Vault

By Maria Amir Crossing perceived boundaries.     “We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky   I suppose it is necessary to admit at this solemn stage...

More than just a Mum

By Wajiha Hyder The new goddess for the New Age.   Life has been generous enough to bestow a wide-ranging array of experiences upon me: some stupendous, some not entirely so and others just plain dreadful in every respect. Working full-time, however, was never among the most cherished first faction of...

The Inclusion of Folklore as Exclusive

By Omri J. Luzon Our Children’s Folklore? Nobody’s talking about Folklore anymore. After all, who cares about a collection of outdated stories and children’s tales? There’s nothing serious about them, and if there ever was, then shame be on the person who thought so. Shame indeed, I argue, shame that...