Tuesday, March 18, 1997 | 11:59 a.m.
The politics of prostitution will be explored by a member of the trade during a lecture at UNLV on April 1.
Prostitute Carol Leigh will give a talk titled, "Prostitution Politics: Issues, Images and Voices from within the Industry."
Leigh, who is also a poet, performance artist and filmmaker in San Francisco, will present an overview of issues in the sex industry from the perspective of prostitutes' rights.
She is scheduled to speak at 7:30 p.m. in the Classroom Building Complex, room A-108. Her talk will include a video presentation and cover topics such as diversity in the sex trade, laws and enforcement practices, immigrant prostitutes' rights, decriminalization vs. legalization, Nevada's legal brothels, the San Francisco Task Force on Prostitution and the feminist controversy over women and the sex industry.
Leigh's presentation will precede a series of forums regarding Southern Nevada's sex industry.
The forums, collectively titled "Bodies, Boundaries & Bounty," will be held the first three Wednesdays of April. Each begins at 7:30 p.m. at the Winchester Community Center, 3130 S. McLeod Drive.
The April 2 forum is titled "Voices within the Industry." On April 9, it's "Voices from the Community." And on April 16, the forum is titled, "Voices in Dialogue: The Future of Southern Nevada's Sex Industries."
Sponsors include UNLV's women's studies program, women's studies club, and the departments of communication studies, political science, public administration and sociology. Sponsors also include the Nevada Sex Industry Research Project-Community Coalition, and the Nevada chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union.
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