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22 June 2022

Emma Thompson’s new film is an absurd view of what a middle-aged woman’s life is worth

In Good Luck to You, Leo Grande, Nancy says that paying for sex has been her only adventure in life. How depressing.

By Louise Perry

Ninety-nine per cent of people who buy sex are men, in every era and in every part of the world. But 99 per cent is not the same as 100 per cent. Females who buy sex do exist, even if they are rare, and they are just as contemptible as their male counterparts.

The journalist Julie Bindel was the first feminist to write about female sex tourism in the Jamaican resort town of Negril, and she described the prevailing attitude towards the phenomenon in these pages in 2013:

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