Usksider Photographic

Just about every city/town has its Red Light District and if NUS reports in the UK are to be believed more and more students are turning to prostitution to make ends meet/finance their university careers: there’s something horribly wrong with the higher education system if that really is the case. I can’t help thinking the UK has particularly odd laws regarding the whole sex industry. Like it or loathe it prostitution is the world’s oldest profession and it’s here to stay so better to legalise it and regulate it surely?

Seems to me it’s only the more enlightened authorities, like the city of Amsterdam for instance, who advertise their Red Light District and then tax the various sexual activities too – that’s a win-win situation for God’s sake because the punters just keep coming and coming!

So anyway I was walking the streets one evening when I spotted the sculpture depicted below and it occurred to me it would make a great piece of artwork to indicate a body was entering a red light zone:

Lady of the Night

Well of course the sculpture has no connection to the sex trade at all… so what do you think this sculpture is really about?