Stop Channel 5 Broadcasting 'Respectable'
We, the undersigned, believe that Channel 5s new sitcom, 'Respectable', due to be screened in August 2006, about women selling sex in a brothel as subject of humour is a gross misrepresentation of the... continue reading »
"Prostitution can never be respectable. This is not just a local issue but a global one. It reinforces the idea that women (& children) can be bought & sold & that is completely wrong. Pornography & lap dancing also adheres to the view that"
"This kind of broadcasting must be stopped City and Country Reading, Berks, England"
"Having been involved in a project to document the realities of prostitution and homelessness, I urge Channnel 5 to seriously re-consider broadcasting this shallow and ultimately pathetic attempt at humour. City and Country Hull, UK"
"With this type of presentation of women as willing prostitutes, will patriarchal society ever manage to stop treating women like 'objects' whose primary purpose is for male satisfaction. Doubly demeaning given the continuing horror of forced prostitution "
"see sent to the Guardian City and Country Honolulu, Hawaii USA"
"This would be a travesty and bear no relation to the dangerous violnece of women nearly always coerced into prostitution City and Country Leeds, England"
