Holbeck: A Case Study of Hell
Holbeck is a case study of hell. It is misogyny and objectification in the legal system, a triumph of men’s rights activists. Alan Caton, the…
The Implementation of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2017, Part IV – An Interim Review
This report was written to consider implementation of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2017. Following its enactment, the Government announced that a review of Part IV which relates to prostitution was to be carried out within three years.
The Racial Roots of Human Trafficking
This Article explores the role of race in the prostitution and sex trafficking of people of color, particularly minority youth, and the evolving legal and social responses in the United States.
The Declaration on Women’s Sex Based Rights
The Women’s Human Rights Campaign has built a global network with the “aim to represent the total breadth of the human female experience across races…
Legalize prostitution? Hell no
The shock of reading that state legislators are calling for the legalization of prostitution in our state still leaves me shaking. Sens. Julia Salazar and…
Consent, coercion, and culpability: Is prostitution stigmatized work or an exploitive and violent practice rooted in sex, race, and class inequality?
Author: Rachel Moran and Melissa Farley
Date: 2018
How litigation laid the ground for accountability after #MeToo
It was legal recognition that broke the rule of impunity that the more power a man has, the more sex he can exact from those…
Legalising prostitution will increase trafficking: Maliwal
NEW DELHI: Calling prostitution as the “worst form of slavery”, Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) Chairperson Swati Maliwal on Tuesday came down heavily on pro-sex…
A survivor goes on a brothel tour in Frankfurt’s red light district: Truth? or propaganda & lies about prostitution?
Huschke Mau goes on a Frankfurt brothel tour led by an advocate for legal prostitution and confronts the web of disinformation that is being promoted…
Germany: Homicides and Attempted Homicides of Prostituted Persons Since the Complete Decriminalization of Prostitution in 2002
Through 2017, translated, German and French.
Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Canada, Northern Ireland and now: VIVE LA FRANCE!!!
On April 6, 2016, France passed an abolitionist law against prostitution that criminalizes sex buyers but decriminalizes women in prostitution. A major element of the…
Welcome to Paradise: Investigative Report on German Legal Prostitution
Paradise is a brothel in Stuttgart. It’s one of Germany’s “mega-brothels” and, like a lot of those establishments, it has a Moroccan theme. Picture a…
From “Sex Work” Advocate to Survivor Leader: A Journey Embraced
05/25/2017 02:56 pm ET Updated May 30, 2017 Nomonde Mihlali (“Mickey”) Meji is a program associate for Survivor Initiatives at Embrace Dignity in Cape Town,…
Prostitution and Sex Work: Situating Ireland’s New Law on Prostitution in the Radical and Liberal Feminist Paradigms
Abstract Several distinct ideologies have emerged from feminist theory. However, insofar as feminist ideologies differ, they agree in their recognition that women are essentially oppressed.It…
The Evidence About Prostitution That The New York Times Ignored
Women in prostitution wait for customers in Sonagachi, the notorious red-light district of Kolkata, India. (Bikas Das / AP Photo) On May 5, Emily Bazelon,…
The Faux Neutrality of Decriminalisation
Support for decriminalized prostitution is ideological, not empirical