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The recent news that the broadcaster BSkyB (who trades as SKY in the UK) is getting all hot under the collar about Skype’s continuing rise in popularity around the world raises all manner of interesting questions. Not least of which being how you can possibly claim to ‘own’ three letters which are patently part of another word entirely. That set us off, visually speaking, and led to the mashed up logo we offer you at the top of this post and then others - some patently ridiculous, but others, well...

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Aim.  The job satisfaction levels and standards of living of sex workers in licensed brothels in Victoria were compared with Australian women.

Main Outcome Measures.  Responses to a questionnaire that included questions about sex work and their “most likely alternative job.” Survey data was compared with identical questions from the Households, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey.

Methods.  A structured survey was undertaken with sex workers in Victoria attending a a sexual health service.

Results.  Of the 112 sex workers who agreed to participate in the study, 85 (76%) completed the survey. The median years women had been working as sex workers was three (range 0.1–18). The main reasons women started sex work was because “they needed the money” (69%), were attracted to the flexible hours (44%) or had a particular goal in mind (43%). The two biggest concerns women had about sex work were their safety (65%) and the risk of sexually transmitted infections (65%). When compared with the median job satisfaction scores of Australian women working in sex workers' “most likely alternative jobs,” 50% of sex workers reported a higher median satisfaction score for sex work in relation to hours worked, 47% in relation to flexibility, 43% in relation to total pay, 26% in relation to job security, 19% in relation to the work itself, and 25% in relation to overall job satisfaction.

Conclusions.  Women reported that they primarily do sex work for financial gain although a significant minority prefer it to other work they would be likely to do. These results should be interpreted in the context that the presence of personality disorders that are common among sex workers were not measured in this study. Source: "The Job Satisfaction of Female Sex Workers Working in Licensed Brothels in Victoria, Australia" from The Journal of Sexual Medicine

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20.08.10Logo mash-ups, part two

We have received dozens of logo mash-ups from all over the world following last week’s post. Here is our selection of the best ones so far. Several people had the temerity to mess with the johnson banks brand, or our logos. Such cheek. The one above is from Stuart Price. Meanwhile look what Chris Jeffreys did to our Shelter logo.

We hope that Chris’s employer isn’t reading this because we got an avalanche of great ones from him.

And this one too. Now, back to work Chris.

A lot of people seemed to have, er, sex on the brain, including Mike Reed.

Here are some sportswear mash-ups from Andy Thorne and Amanda Grace Liu.

Food, drink and er, manga from Leigh Dunks and that man Jeffreys again.

Big Macs and TV? Perfect combination really (thanks to Matthew Robinson).

And to end part two, Obama and O2 (the British phone brand) from Ed, Chris and John at Lost in the Forest. Great stuff.  

Will we have enough for a third edition? Feel free to send us more at: info at johnsonbanks dot co dot uk In the meantime, thought for the week is taking a brief vacation. See you in September. Back to the top |  AddThis

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