Happy Hooker Revisited
Xaviera Hollander, who wrote the Happy Hooker in the 1970’s, glamorized prostitution as empowerment for women. Few know that Hollander was a Holocaust survivor. Playwright…
“Scrub Girls” – sickening class prejudice against poor women
I was listening to San Francisco talk radio on July 28, 2008 and heard both a legal Nevada pimp and a caller refer to women…
Not For Sale – Video on Prostitution & Trafficking
Not For Sale was produced by the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW) and the European Women’s Lobby (EWL) in 2006. This documentary by filmmaker…
The Sex Industry in Nevada
Suki Falconberg is an ex-prostitute who fights against the sexual enslavement of women. She is also a passionate animal-rights activist. Her books are available online.
Often People Believe the Lies of Pimps
I spoke with a public official this past week regarding the decriminalization of prostitution. When I talked with her, she told me she saw a…
Legal Pimp Dennis Hof offers Women for Sale Extra Cheap at the Moonlite Bunny Ranch
With the recent economic downturn, businesses all over the US are suffering. But to further commodify women through the use of prostitution, legal Nevada pimp,…
Challenging Men’s Demand for Prostitution in Scotland
This is a research report based on interviews with 110 scottish men who bought women in prostitution. We asked interviewees about the extent to which…
Commentary on U.S. Sex Buyer Elliot Spitzer March 2008
Don’t miss this article by R.F. Blader at Counterpunch.
Zero Tolerance for Johns: How the Government of Sweden Would Respond to Spitzer
We have a suggestion for the new governor of New York, David Paterson. Why not enact a statewide zero-tolerance law for buying sexual services? When…
Is Paying for Sex Really Worth It? No, Prostitution Exploits Many Women’s Deep Pain
Myers-Powell writes about her personal experience with prostitution relating it to the exploitation and deep pain that prostitution causes. Myers-Powell is a survivor of prostitution…
Prostitution’s Hierarchy of Control and Coercion
Graphic showing the class and race hierarchy in prostitution. There is a pyramid-like hierarchy in prostitution. At the top are a very few women –…
Juvenile Prostitution Factsheet
Discussion of the non- reliability of most estimates of the number of children in prostitution.
Human Trafficking and Prostitution
According to U.N. estimates, approximately 2.5 million people are being trafficked around the world at any given time, 80% of them women and children. Conservative…
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Nevada Legal Pimp Dennis Hof Podcast Highlights
Dennis Hof is a legal pimp in a Nevada brothel. He advertises his brothel on an HBO pseudo-documentary series with the full support and collaboration…
PRE Supports Federal Legal Response to Domestic as Well as International Trafficking Victims
The United States government cannot reduce international trafficking without also combating trafficking inside our own borders. The US House of Representatives in 2007 overwhelmingly passed…
Report of assault at kink.com a San Francisco torture pornography production company
A post about a woman who’d been brutally assaulted as part of a production at kink.com in San Francisco appeared on Luke Ford’s blog www.lukeisback.com…
KINK.COM in SAN FRANCISCO: (continued)
Continue the conversation here…
KINK.COM in SAN FRANCISCO: Women and Gay Men’s Abu Ghraib
WARNING If you open the red torture photo link directly below this paragraph, you will see two photographs of people being tortured. One is the…
Fantasies, Well Meant
[Part 3 of a 3 part series, Part 1, Part 2] I must have hit a nerve. While in Las Vegas last week, I interviewed…