What do girls need to stay out of prostitution?
“Someplace safe,” she said. “Someplace to be a girl. Someplace where I won’t have to have sex with men anymore.” Read the rest of the…
Book Uses SAGE Clients’ Stories Without Their Permission
Dear Colleagues & Allies of The SAGE Project, Recently a book titled, Hos, Hookers, Call Girls, and Rent Boys was published by Soft Skull Press….
US Culture Disconnected from Reality, Obsessed with Adolescence, Michael Jacksonesque
Herbert describes US culture, like Jackson, as extremely immature, grotesquely irresponsible, and as refusing to know the truth of things. Herbert sees a misogynist, pedophiliac…
Woman exchanges sex acts for food June 2009
This story was all over the U.S. press in late June. No one seems to be noting what is obvious. MAYBE SHE WAS HUNGRY. Why…
Indoor Versus Outdoor Prostitution in Rhode Island
“Nobody really wants to be sold,” a woman in a Nevada legal brothel explained to me. Even if you know that simple fact — that…
Eminem, Misogyny, and the Sounds of Silence
Two excerpts: One need not argue that boys and men who listen to Eminem will become rapist-murderers in order to maintain that misogynous music and…
Japan bans sexual torture software
A Japanese software industry body has decided to ban computer games in which players simulate sexual violence against females, a spokesman said. The industry move…
Activism/False Distinction Between Prostitution & Trafficking/Law and Policy/Library/Pimps/Traffickers
Trafficking by Craigslist Challenged by Cook County Sheriff and CATW
Amicus brief filed by Coalition Against Trafficking in Women and colleagues against Craigslist, citing simple legal arguments showing the connection between online advertising for prostitution…
Law and Policy/Library/Pimps/Traffickers/Pornography/Racism, Colonialism/Sex Buyers (“the demand”)/Trafficking
Men Who Buy Sex (London) 2009
UK-based Eaves for Women and U.S.-based Prostitution and Research Education teamed up to interview 103 men in London who had bought commercial sex. Of those…
Law and Policy/Library/Pimps/Traffickers/Prostitution/QuickFacts/Sex Buyers (“the demand”)/Trafficking
Myths & Facts about Legalized Prostitution
Lists 18 common myths about trafficking and provides the factual evidence as alternatives.
Basic Information/False Distinction Between Prostitution & Trafficking/Law and Policy/Library/Prostitution/Sex Buyers (“the demand”)/Trafficking
Trafficking: Theory vs Reality
This article presents evidence for the links between prostitution and trafficking, using examples of New Zealand, USA, and India. Men’s demand for trafficked women cannot…
Documentary about Oakland internet escort and street prostitution
This is an excellent documentary about Oakland prostitution, about 22 minutes long. Internet prostitution is described by one young woman, and the valuable work of…
Norma Hotaling
Norma Hotaling, founder and Executive Director of the SAGE Project in San Francisco died on December 16, 2008 following a short illness. Norma Hotaling transformed…
No Decriminalization of Traffickers – NoonK.net
PRE has documented the harms of decriminalized prostitution on this website for many years. Now, San Francisco voters face a real risk of across-the-board decriminalization…
Prostitution Policy Recommendations to the City of San Francisco
Strongly criminalizing johns is the most effective legal approach to date to the harms of violence and exploitation that prostitution inflicts on those used in…
Proposition K would decriminalize pimps in San Francisco
A woman with a history of pimping (and a conviction for pimping in Seattle) has proposed that San Francisco decriminalize prostitution. It will be voted…
Decriminalization of Prostitution Defeated in San Francisco
On the same wonderful evening that Barack Obama was voted in as our next president, Proposition K which would have decriminalized prostitution in San Francisco,…
Time to Revise the Trafficking Victims Protection Act
Taking On the Traffickers The Federal Trafficking and Victims Protection Act of 2000 was an ambitious attempt to rescue women and children who are smuggled…
Why doesn’t the United States have a Minister for Gender Equality?
Both Sweden and the Republic of Korea do. And – no surprise – both countries have progressive laws on the books that focus on buyers…
Pimps, the US Military, and Domestic Terrorism
Like pimps on the street and pimps in strip clubs, the US military is using psychological methods to harm, not heal. Many of the practices…