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…
Risks of Prostitution: When the Person Is the Product
ABSTRACT In the traditional model of consumer risk, the product that is consumed is understood to be the agent that is imbued with risks. In…
My 25 years as a Prostitute
Brenda Myers-Powell was just a child when she became a prostitute in the early 1970s. Here she describes how she was pulled into working on the streets and why, three decades later, she devoted her life to making sure other girls don’t fall into the same trap.
Fracking and Trafficking
Resource extraction is usually accompanied by prostitution and trafficking. The ecosystem destruction caused by fracking to access oil and gas is paralleled by the quieter destruction of trafficked women who service the frackers. Sexual Violence has dramatically increased in the Bakken region of Montana and North Dakota since the flood of pipeline workers have moved into the ‘man camps,’ military barracks-style housing.
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Arguments for and against Prostitution Including Arguments for and against the Swedish Prostitution Law
This 58 page booklet, translated from Swedish to English by Kvinnofronten/The Women’s Front, Sweden, 2013, can be downloaded here. Topics include what is prostitution: “buying sex…
The John Next Door
The men who buy sex are your neighbors and colleagues. A new study reveals how the burgeoning demand for porn and prostitutes is warping personal…
Help Wanted: Women and Girls, Do You Want This Job?
Biting satire by survivors of prostitution: a help wanted ad for the “job” of prostitution. Copyright © WHISPER. All Rights Reserved. Prostitution has been euphemized…
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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…
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 –…
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…
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Prostitution, Trafficking, and Cultural Amnesia: What We Must Not Know in Order To Keep the Business of Sexual Exploitation Running Smoothly
This article discusses and analyzes empirical data on the harms of prostitution, pornography and trafficking. This information has to be culturally, psychologically, and legally denied…
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…
Unequal
This article responds to Debbie Nathan’s “Oversexed” (Nation, August 29, 2005). Nathan sympathizes with those on the Left who consider prostitution a form of labor…
Frequently-Asked Questions about Prostitution
S.M. Berg has published responses to frequently-asked questions about prostitution. For example: Isn’t prostitution a choice? Don’t a lot of women enjoy it? Porn and…
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Prostitution and Trafficking of Women and Children from Mexico to the United States
A description of the historical background of sex trafficking from Mexico to the United States and summaries of two cases illustrating the complexity of providing…
How Prostitution Works
A description of customers, pimps, and the ways that young people get into prostitution. Prostitution, pornography, and other forms of commercial sex are a multi-billion…
Prostitution As Violence Against Women
This article discusses how prostitution is exempted from other kinds of violence and human rights violations, how prostitution is legitimized by distinctions between “forced” and…
Prostitution: A Violation of Women’s Human Rights
Despite the erroneously held belief that legalizing prostitution would empower women, the reality is that legalizing prostitution would only bring more harm to the women…
Prostitution and Civil Rights
The gap between the promise of civil rights and the real lives of prostitutes is an abyss which swallows up prostituted women. This article discusses…
Prostitution and Male Supremacy
“Prostitution is in and of itself an abuse of a woman’s body.” “In prostitution, no woman stays whole.” Discussion of the incest that precedes prostitution,…