Streets Apart
In the debate about prostitution, there are those, like the Dutch, who advocate legalising it, and those, like the Swedes, who want to get women…
10 Reasons for Not Legalizing Prostitution
Discussion of ways that legalized or decriminalized prostitution promotes trafficking expands both legal and illegal prostitution, and fails to promote women’s health or make them…
The 1999 Swedish Law on Prostitution
This law is a brilliant example of how a truly progressive society addresses prostitution: the law decriminalizes the prostitute but criminalizes customers, pimps, and traffickers….
Prostitution: A Critical Review of the Medical and Social Sciences Literature
A review of articles that focus on HIV but simultaneously ignore the massive violence that affects the lives of those in prostitution. The normalization of…
A Comparison of Pimps and Batterers
A description of the abusive power relationships between women in prostitution with their pimps, comparing the dynamics of prostituted women and their pimps to those…
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…
Split at the Root: Prostitution and Feminist Discourses of Law Reform
What are the effects of creating a separation between ‘prostitutes’ and all ‘other women’? What happens when women involved in prostitution are examined by different…