A rally by porn stars and other sex workers filled the wide pavement on the corner of Colombo Street, outside Wedge House, where Saturday’s Stop Porn Culture (SPC) conference was held.
The anti-porn conference’s pro-censorship organizers had insisted that their event was not the occasion for a debate with opponents.
However, during the demonstration both Gail Dines and Guardian columnist Julie Bindel appeared with plates of biscuits and entered into lively and sometimes heated debate.
Around 50 protesters waving placards included members of the English Collective of Prostitutes, and strippers.
The rally was later addressed by Jerry Barnett of the pro-porn group Sex and Censorship.
Former porn star and protest co-organizer Renee Richards who is eight months pregnant said, “Dines and the other so-called feminists at this conference claim all porn has harmful effects. Yet Dines has never stepped on a porn set.”
Photos courtesy the London SE1 community website team
Leave a Comment