Books & Beer x #SGTipsyTrivia! (Sat, 2 Nov at Switch by Timbre)

Mon, 7 Oct 2013
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Books & Beer x SGTipsyTrivia!

Who were Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell? What is the Teenage Textbook? And am I the only one who cares about such matters of grave importance?

If questions like these keep you up at night, then come on down to Switch by Timbre on Sat, 2 Nov 2013 at 5pm for a fun-filled evening of Books & Beer x SGTipsyTrivia!

Join us as Singapore’s first travelling book swop with an icy-cold twist meets Singapore’s first travelling pub quiz with a local focus at this year’s Singapore Writers’ Festival.

In this edition, the book exchange will feature a literary pub quiz with questions on luminaries such as William Shakespeare and Goh Poh Seng. Bring friends, or meet like-minded people there!

So come thirsty and come prepared – because, really, how much fun can you get up to along Bras Basah Road on a Saturday night?

Books & Beer x SGTipsyTrivia!
Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2013
Time: 5pm – 7pm
Venue: Switch by Timbre
(73 Bras Basah Road #01-01/02, Singapore, Singapore 189556)

Price:
Book Swop – No charge
Pub Quiz – $5 per player (max. 6 players per team.
Teams with more than 6 players will have 3.5 points deducted per extra player.)

Top Prize for Pub Quiz: 60% of evening’s pot
Second Prize for Pub Quiz: 30% of evening’s pot

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Stuff you must read today (Fri, 4 Oct 2013) – The Erotic Services Edition

Fri, 4 Oct 2013
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Fortunately or unfortunately, the only service provided here is education.

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  • The Awesome Sex Worker Who Loves Disabled Clients | Jezebel
    Eye-opening; hadn’t even been aware about this issue until reading the article and watching the video.
     
  • True Stories: I Was A Receptionist In An Australian Brothel | Nerve
    “Sometimes they ask me if I’m tempted to jump the counter, make $250 an hour instead of $30. My Australian blue-collar boyfriend angrily asked me the same question when I first started work… . The guys who call, overwhelmed by all the choices I offer them, frequently say, “You sound nice. Can I just have you?” I laugh and tell them no”.
     
  • Adventures in Ideas: Sex Workers of the World, Unite! An Interview With Maxine Doogan | Freakonomics
    “…I met several exotic dancers who didn’t think of themselves as sex workers… . It was important to them to protect their legal work status and not admit that some of their activities inside the dance clubs involved sex… . Then there are those who call themselves specific names like escorts or courtesans as a means of separating their activities from prostitutes because they don’t want to be associated with something that carries so many negative social stigmas and results in so much discrimination… . That’s why I named our organization Erotic Service Providers – it speaks more specifically to the fact that our labor is erotic in nature without using the hot button ‘sex’ word, but still calls out how our respective sub-economies have intersections that [a]ffect each other”.
     
  • The Year I Spent As A Phone-Sex Operator | Nerve
    “Being a phone-sex operator was a lot like sitting in a confessional when the priest is away. You hear private things that should probably be told to someone else, but they need to be told to someone, so it might as well be you”.
     
  • Storytime with… A Happy Endings Masseur for Women | Nerve
    “Women aren’t generally known to be the recipients of happy ending massages. Is there a hidden demand that you’re meeting?

    Absolutely. Clients’ attitudes are, when it comes to happy endings, why should men have all the fun? With nearly 300 individual clients to date, many of whom are regulars, there’s obviously a strong demand for this kind of thing”.