New law criminalizing sex buyers is an important step to abolishing sexual exploitation in Israel
On Sunday, February 12, 2012 the Ministerial Committee for Legislation gave its initial approval to a new bill that targets sex buyers in Israel. The…
Under New Law, France Would No Longer Be Sexual Playground of Men Like Dominique Strauss-Kahn
In the aftermath of the scandal surrounding Dominique Strauss-Kahn last year, the French National Assembly signed a Resolution that “reaffirms the abolitionist position of France,…
Hotels Fight Sex Trade
About this article: Some years ago, End Child Prostitution and Trafficking (ECPAT), an international and domestic NGO that opposes the trafficking of children for commercial…
Proud Punters in Prague
Sex buyers from England, New Zealand, and the Netherlands descend on economically stressed Prague, Czech Republic to purchase women for sexual use. The men were…
Protest Against Village Voice Media in New York, November 16, 2011
The Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW) in partnership with Prostitution Research and Education (PRE) held a successful protest in front of the Village Voice…
False Distinction Between Prostitution & Trafficking/Library/Mental and Physical Health Effects of Prostitution and the Sex Trade/Pimps/Traffickers/Prostitution/Racism, Colonialism
Garden of Truth: The Prostitution and Trafficking of Native Women in Minnesota
Three-year research study about the prostitution and trafficking of 105 Native Women in Minnesota. Native women are particularly vulnerable to sexual exploitation because of a…
Study Looks at Men’s Attitudes Toward Buying Sex
A new study takes a rare look at the men who buy sex, rather than the women they hire. Newsweek’s special report, “The John Next…
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…
Comparing Sex Buyers and Non-Sex Buyers
Comparing Sex Buyers with Men Who Don’t Buy Sex: “You can have a good time with the servitude” vs. “You’re supporting a system of degradation” Paper presented at…
Boycott of “Pimp ‘n ‘Ho Rave” in Vancouver
Raves which trivialize prostitution as “pimp ‘n ‘ho night – sexual attire desired” – are teaching men to sell, abuse and rape women (which is…
Demand Change Project of Breaking Free, St. Paul Minnesota, May 13, 2011
Breaking Free, a leading anti-human trafficking advocacy organization and Men Against Trafficking of Others hosted the Demand Change Project in St Paul Minnesota on May…
Statement of Asia-Pacific Meeting of Sex Trafficking and Prostitution Survivors
In this meeting, we have shared stories of resistance, survival, healing, recovery, accessing education, self-organizing and mobilization. Collectively, we agree to reject the legalization of…
Attitudes and Social Characteristics of Men Who Buy Sex in Scotland
Public awareness about prostitution has grown in recent years, along with an understanding of the psychological trauma resulting from sexual exploitation as commercial enterprise, regardless…
Turn off the Red Light Campaign in Ireland
MIND MOVES: Changing attitudes can help to end the abuse PROSTITUTION is not an easy subject to talk about. It stirs up a range of…
Trafficking, Prostitution, and Inequality
Catharine A. MacKinnon describes evidence supporting the Nordic model legislation on prostitution and discusses links between prostitution, pornography, and trafficking.
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…
Commercialized Sexual Assault of Children (AKA prostitution of children)
There are no reliable data on the prevalence of sexual assault of children in prostitution, also known as CSEC, also known as trafficking of children….
Senator Harry Reid’s Call to Outlaw Legal Prostitution in his Address to the Nevada Legislature
“I recently met with a group of businessmen who run data centers for technology companies. They visited Storey County to see about opening a facility…
US federal tax agency (IRS) investigates and brings criminal charges against Las Vegas escort agency pimps by hitting them where it hurts the most
Federal tax violations – not reporting cash income – was used to combat prostitution in this case in Las Vegas, where police worked with IRS…
Prohibiting Sex Purchasing and Ending Trafficking: The Swedish Prostitution Law (2011)
This article by Max Waltman analyzes the Swedish prostitution law from 1999, which criminalized the sex buyer and decriminalized prostituted persons. He analyzes this law…