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,...
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...
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...
Aboriginal Women’s Statement on Legal Prostitution, Canada
As Aboriginal women on occupied Coast Salish Territory, we, the Aboriginal Women’s Action Network (AWAN) implore you to pay attention to the voices of Aboriginal...
Prostitution: Consent or Men’s Violence Against Women?
Scott Hampton, Psy.D. wrote this article for the New Jersey Coalition Against Sexual Assault Fall 2007 Newsletter. He is Director of Ending the Violence. 90...
Ex-Prostitutes Against Legislated Sexual Servitude
Contact: xpalss@shaw.ca A statement by members of Ex-Prostitutes Against Legislated Sexual Servitude. Includes a version of the statement in French. “We are women who have been...
One Man in Eight Has Bought Sex
In 1999, Sweden passed legislation that criminalized the purchase of sexual services, which in essence decriminalized prostituted persons and placed penalties only on the buyers,...
Globalized Female Slavery
Said It: Feminist News, Culture, Politics What a world we live in, a male-framed world, where global economics sets in concrete a system of winners...
