I personally believe that it is not acceptable to request the presence of a sex worker/workers as part of your rider. Whether this is consensual by both parties is irrespective. It shows a flagrant disrespect and objectification of women. Where is the line drawn when a person has such a sense of entitlement?I do not defend the accused DJs. This is a very emotional subject, and the outrage comes from a good place.
However, I just want to be clear that there is nothing wrong with wanting to be surrounded by the women of your choosing. I personally do not think prostitution should be considered illegal, if the parties are consenting adults. Beyond the subject at hand (rape and assault), I see a lot of other "male" behaviors being pulled into the "portrait of a serial rapist". Most men (in my anecdotal experience and opinion) spend a significant amount of their adult lives distracted their desire for women (and/or men). Some are driven to excel and become exceptional in other areas to satisfy those desires in one way or another. Again, there is nothing wrong with that.
I am not targeting anyone in particular, and especially you @white_isle_calling you just happened to have it in yours reply recently. There have been others too. However, there seems to be some "mission creep" in general when wanting to denounce something that is obviously evil to include some things that only some find objectionable.
(I will now step back and "gird my loins")
I personally believe that it is not acceptable to request the presence of a sex worker/workers as part of your rider. Whether this is consensual by both parties is irrespective. It shows a flagrant disrespect and objectification of women. Where is the line drawn when a person has such a sense of entitlement?
And to clarify on my part what I said is no slur on sex workers. As long as the individual is not being coerced in to the industry and is doing it of their own volition, it's there choice to make.@CasaNegron No slight on the sex workers, their business is their business. But it's back to the discussion we had on here yesterday, that behaviour doesn't reflect well. We're not talking about a few guys on a stag weekend hiring girls, we're talking about rider demands on a professional contract. Bit weird, don't you think?
Assault and harassment.Where is the line drawn when a person has such a sense of entitlement?
Its fair to stand by your ideals, individually.My view would be you become complicit. How do you guarantee the girl isn’t working under duress or whatever. If I paid a DJ and he decides to do whatever , up to him.
I had the same thing with a DJ I had booked who was reasonably big at the time (05-07 era) was absolutely desperate for us to sort drugs. Refused to do it and in the end had to get a member of security to have a word. Verging off topic , but he also demanded a 5 star hotel - and there wasn’t one in the town, nearest was 12 miles away but kept going on about it despite probably only spending about 4 hours in it
Its fair to stand by your ideals, individually.
Can anyone briefly shed light of the derrick may ripping off other people's music claims too.
Seen than mentioned over the years but never delved into it
I guess my point is - that’s when stuff gets out of control and it all becomes a bit blurry. It’d be much easier if industry wide there was a code of conduct Promoters / clubs / artists signed up to
I'm not saying they don't but I imagine their pr people point them in the right direction to keep them happy....Imagine if the djs read this a whole forum about them lol
Or the PR skims the good bits and tells them about it and leave out the bad bits we say about them haI'm not saying they don't but I imagine their pr people point them in the right direction to keep them happy....