... that Kanhopatra (temple burial site pictured) is venerated as a saint in the Varkari sect of Hinduism, despite spending most of her life as a courtesan?
... that sex workers across the world have organised since the mid-1970s to demand sex workers’ rights, including the decriminalisation of prostitution and equal protection under the law?
... that the application of a spray-on condom was based on the logistics of a drive-through car wash?
... that homosexuality has been labeled by some communists as a product of bourgeois decadence?

January - July 2009