Online and Technology-facilitated Trafficking in Human Beings
Internet, and information communication technology (ICT) more generally, play a major role in shaping our lives. The Covid-19 pandemic has laid bare the extent to…
Men who pay for sex in Germany and what they teach us about the failure of legal prostitution: a 6-country report on the sex trade from the perspective of the socially invisible ‘freiers’
By Melissa Farley, Inge Kleine, Kerstin Neuhaus, Yoanna McDowell, Silas Schulz, Saskia Nitschmann November 8, 2022 PRE and partners present the results of multi-country research…
Woman as Resource: A Reply to Catharine MacKinnon
Jane Clare Jones argues, contra MacKinnon, that decoupling sex and gender deprives feminist analysis of its explanatory power.
From Feminism to Transgenderism: Catharine MacKinnon and her Political Transition
As a Marxist, I was influenced by radical feminism when, as a graduate student, I read Catharine MacKinnon’s book Feminism Unmodified. That was 30 years…
Current Concerns About Gender‑Affirming Therapy in Adolescents
A systematic review of evidence conducted by public health authorities in Finland, Sweden, and England concluded that the risk/benefit ratio of youth gender transition ranges…
Prostitución y la invisibilización del daño (Prostitution and the invisibility of harm)
El daño de la prostitución es socialmente invisible, y es también invisible en la ley, en la salud pública y en la psicología. Este artículo…
Nov 9, 2022 – One-day Conference in Berlin 09:00 – 17:00
Dear friends of Prostitution Research & Education, We are happy to announce the forthcoming release of a 6-country report on sex buyers, Men who pay…
It is by women and by land, that the people are given life
“He wāhine, he whenua ka ora te tangata” It is by women and by land, that the people are given life In te ao Māori…
Defamation and DARVO
According to Johnny Depp’s lawsuit against Amber Heard, Heard defamed Depp when she wrote about witnessing how “institutions protect men accused of abuse,” and when…
No Country for Whistleblowers: A response to the culture-wide promotion of prostitution in New Zealand
Renée Gerlich is writer based in New Zealand. Her book Out of the Fog: On Feminism, Politics and Coming Alive, is due to be published…
Alika Kinan, Victim of Trafficking: “Men have to be aware that you cannot pay to rape”
By Marisa Kohan, Publico, Madrid June 16, 2022 (https://www.publico.es/mujer/alika-kinan-victima-trata-hombres-conciencia-no-pagar-violar.html) Poverty, lack of resources, the neglect of the State and the complicity of society as a…
Rape dolls replace and objectify real women
Lars and the Real Girl normalizes artificial females.
US Supreme Court justice cites precedent of man who sentenced witches to death
Draft Overturning Roe v. Wade Quotes Infamous Witch Trial Judge With Long-Discredited Ideas on Rape—Justice Alito’s leaked opinion cites Sir Matthew Hale, a 17th-century jurist…
The transnational political criminal nexus of trafficking in women from Ukraine
Abstract Throughout the 1990s, tens of thousands of Ukrainian women were trafficked into prostitution. This phenomenon was researched by collecting data through inter- views and…
Comparando a hombres que compran sexo y hombres que no compran sexo: Nuevos datos sobre prostituci n y trata
Abstract Investigamos las actitudes y conductas asociadas con la prostitución y la agresión sexual de 101 hombres que compran sexo y 101 hombres que no…
The Problem With Being Cool About Sex: Half a century after the sexual revolution, a new generation of feminists understands that we still haven’t reconciled what we should want with what we do want.
“Could it be that pornography doesn’t merely depict the subordination of women, but actually makes it real, I asked? Yes, they said. Does porn silence…