This is what a pimp looks like
“I was a good pimp” says James Lipton. Read more here. Don’t buy into racist stereotypes about pimps. There is a class and race hierarchy among pimps…
Austerity programs cause brutal cuts in public services and result in more prostitution
Copyright © 2013. Angelos Tzortzinis. All Rights Reserved “A prostitute who bears scars on her arm from the time she tried to kill herself in…
Beyonce is not a role model for young women
Today, the cultural sexualization of girls increasingly overlaps with and merges into prostitution. The most visible example of sexual objectification today is Beyonce Knowles. “Variations…
Survivor-informed policies and programs
For the past fifteen years I have worked side by side with survivors of prostitution and trafficking. Without a doubt, survivors are people whose voices…
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Video: Men Can Act to End Men’s Violence Against Women
(Prostitution is One Form of Violence Against Women) Feminist activist Jackson Katz here focuses on men’s role in ending violence against women. Katz emphasizes the…
Sex Work – There Is No Such Thing
I’ve heard a few people recently referring to women who work as prostitutes, in pornography and as strippers, as sex workers. This, I have to…
Kudos to Corpus Christi Texas and to Captain Floyd Simpson
Women in Corpus Christi prostitution are offered services, not arrested. The police understand that any woman who is pimp-controlled is a trafficking victim. Congratulations from…
Video: Online Attacks Against Opposition to Sexism and Sexual Exploitation
This 10-minute video describes Anita Sarkeesian’s experience with cybermobbing – a massive online hate campaign. She was targeted by large numbers of anonymous online attackers…
Legalized Prostitution in Amsterdam “has never worked” says a Survivor
Despite claims that legalization helps women in prostitution, in Amsterdam it has led to increases in organized crime and trafficking and has created an environment…
“End Demand” Works, Evidence Shows
Almost everyone in the field is discussing legal approaches toward the related scourges of human trafficking and prostitution. Recognizing that prostitution is a form of…
Ridiculing Victims of Trafficking
“The daily comics are not known to be bastions of feminist thought but a strip in the San Francisco Chronicle on Saturday September 29, 2012…
Sex industry pimps and allies use “sex rights for the disabled” as Trojan Horse
Prejudice against disabled people exists in many cultures. That includes prejudice against their existence as fully human including their sexuality. Because of this prejudice, it…
City Targets Sex Buyers with Letter Writing Campaign
Part of a comprehensive approach to end human trafficking and prostitution is through the provision of services to women and children being exploited by the…
Abolishing Prostitution: A Feminist Human Rights Treaty
Author of Female Sexual Slavery Kathleen Barry, proposes a feminist human rights treaty to abolish prostitution. The author, long active in global human rights, argues…
A Thorn in the Heart: Cambodian Men Who Buy Sex
Paper presented at “Focus on Men Who Buy Sex: Discourage Men’s Demand for Prostitution, Stop Sex Trafficking” in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, July 17, 2012. Co-hosted…
Pimps Will Be Pimps (Part 2 of 2)
James Baldwin wrote, “The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: she has become a…
Ontario Disempowers Prostituted Persons: Assessing Evidence, Arguments, & Substantive Equality in Bedford v. Canada
Max Waltman’s paper analyzes the Court of Appeal for Ontario’s ruling on March 26, 2012, concluding that it erroneously rewrote the law against “living on…