Zoe Margolis: Not A Hooker – Nice Jewish Boys Keep Looking
ZOE Margolis is not a prostitute. She never has been. Margolis is just one of the nice Jewish girls who blog about sex. But she is not a hooker.
Margolis writes the Girl With A One Track Mind blog. She wrote a piece for the Independent on Sunday about “dispelling stigma and stereotypes.”
The headline ran:
“I was a hooker who became an agony aunt”
The word hooker was later changed to “good-time girl“.
She tells Sky News:
“The experience of having my reputation tarnished has been absolutely devastating. It’s really important to me to clear my name so that when people search for me on Google they find the facts.”
She saw the irony:
“Unfortunately this situation just shows how much work still needs to be done to challenge the sexism of the media in their conflation of female sexual desire with the sex industry.”
The Indy apologised, five days after the original headline was published:
On 7 March 2010, we published an article by Zoe Margolis. In part of the first edition of the newspaper and online, this article carried the headline, “I was a hooker who became an agony aunt”.
This was written by the newspaper not Ms Margolis. We accept that Ms Margolis is not and never has been “a hooker” or otherwise involved in the sex industry.
The wording of the headline was a mistake and seriously defamatory of Ms Margolis. We offer our sincere apologies to Ms Margolis for the damage to her reputation and the distress and embarrassment which she has suffered.
Damages are due. And in the meantime, millions of nice Jewish boys wonder where the next sex blogger mum would approve of is hiding…
Posted: 21st, May 2010 | In: Reviews Comment (1) | TrackBack | Permalink
