Targeting the Johns in Sex Trade
Reflecting the global shift in thinking about prostitution – it’s no longer seen as a victimless crime, rather, sex buyers are understood now as predators…
Prostitution, Liberalism, and Slavery
This article critiques the liberal “prostitution-can-be-fixed-or-improved” perspective of liberals and defends an abolitionist approach that views prostitution as slavery or slavery-like practices.
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…
Strip Clubs: Where Prostitution and Trafficking Happen
In hundreds of research interviews, sex buyers tell us that they can always find minor girls in strip clubs. A 15-year-old girl who had gone…
Video: Men Can Act to End Men’s Violence Against Women
(Prostitution is One Form of Violence Against Women) Feminist activist Jackson Katz here focuses on men’s role in ending violence against women. Katz emphasizes the…
Kudos to Corpus Christi Texas and to Captain Floyd Simpson
Women in Corpus Christi prostitution are offered services, not arrested. The police understand that any woman who is pimp-controlled is a trafficking victim. Congratulations from…
Video: Online Attacks Against Opposition to Sexism and Sexual Exploitation
This 10-minute video describes Anita Sarkeesian’s experience with cybermobbing – a massive online hate campaign. She was targeted by large numbers of anonymous online attackers…
Legalized Prostitution in Amsterdam “has never worked” says a Survivor
Despite claims that legalization helps women in prostitution, in Amsterdam it has led to increases in organized crime and trafficking and has created an environment…
“End Demand” Works, Evidence Shows
Almost everyone in the field is discussing legal approaches toward the related scourges of human trafficking and prostitution. Recognizing that prostitution is a form of…
Ridiculing Victims of Trafficking
“The daily comics are not known to be bastions of feminist thought but a strip in the San Francisco Chronicle on Saturday September 29, 2012…
Sex industry pimps and allies use “sex rights for the disabled” as Trojan Horse
Prejudice against disabled people exists in many cultures. That includes prejudice against their existence as fully human including their sexuality. Because of this prejudice, it…
City Targets Sex Buyers with Letter Writing Campaign
Part of a comprehensive approach to end human trafficking and prostitution is through the provision of services to women and children being exploited by the…
Abolishing Prostitution: A Feminist Human Rights Treaty
Author of Female Sexual Slavery Kathleen Barry, proposes a feminist human rights treaty to abolish prostitution. The author, long active in global human rights, argues…
A Thorn in the Heart: Cambodian Men Who Buy Sex
Paper presented at “Focus on Men Who Buy Sex: Discourage Men’s Demand for Prostitution, Stop Sex Trafficking” in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, July 17, 2012. Co-hosted…
Ontario Disempowers Prostituted Persons: Assessing Evidence, Arguments, & Substantive Equality in Bedford v. Canada
Max Waltman’s paper analyzes the Court of Appeal for Ontario’s ruling on March 26, 2012, concluding that it erroneously rewrote the law against “living on…
Protest Backpage.com with CATW and PRE, New York
These prostitution ads in Houston and Las Vegas were located on Backpage.com June 15, 2012. Although they appear to be written by the women, most…
Campaign to Raise Awareness of Prostitution’s Harms
Copyright © 2012 Ruhama. All rights reserved. Ruhama, a Dublin-based NGO, is running a radio and poster campaign to raise awareness about the harms to…