Protest at Craigslist San Francisco Headquarters
The Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW) in partnership with Prostitution Research and Education (PRE) and other co-sponsors held a protest in front of Craigslist…
City of Las Vegas Finally Cracks Down on Neighborhood Brothels
LAS VEGAS – It’s been two and a half years since Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman told reporters, “I’ll take a baseball bat and break…
Intelligence Squared Debate “It’s wrong to pay for sex”
Rockefeller University, New York, NY The goal of IQ2 US is to raise the level of public discourse on our most challenging issues. To provide…
Update on Lydia Cacho, Mexican Feminist
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) – A Mexican journalist who was arrested and threatened with rape after exposing a child prostitution ring in Cancun involving prominent…
Canada’s Prostitution Laws – 2009
Supporters of the prostitution industry want us to believe that women would be safe if men’s purchase of women for sex is legalized. In the…
Japanese Videogames Promote Violence Against Women
For Immediate Release23 September 2009 EQUALITY NOW CALLS ON NEW JAPANESE ADMINISTRATION TO BAN ALL GAMES THAT PROMOTE VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS JAPAN MUST…
Book Uses SAGE Clients’ Stories Without Their Permission
Dear Colleagues & Allies of The SAGE Project, Recently a book titled, Hos, Hookers, Call Girls, and Rent Boys was published by Soft Skull Press….
Indoor Versus Outdoor Prostitution in Rhode Island
“Nobody really wants to be sold,” a woman in a Nevada legal brothel explained to me. Even if you know that simple fact — that…
Activism/False Distinction Between Prostitution & Trafficking/Law and Policy/Library/Pimps/Traffickers
Trafficking by Craigslist Challenged by Cook County Sheriff and CATW
Amicus brief filed by Coalition Against Trafficking in Women and colleagues against Craigslist, citing simple legal arguments showing the connection between online advertising for prostitution…
Law and Policy/Library/Pimps/Traffickers/Pornography/Racism, Colonialism/Sex Buyers (“the demand”)/Trafficking
Men Who Buy Sex (London) 2009
UK-based Eaves for Women and U.S.-based Prostitution and Research Education teamed up to interview 103 men in London who had bought commercial sex. Of those…
Law and Policy/Library/Pimps/Traffickers/Prostitution/QuickFacts/Sex Buyers (“the demand”)/Trafficking
Myths & Facts about Legalized Prostitution
Lists 18 common myths about trafficking and provides the factual evidence as alternatives.
Basic Information/False Distinction Between Prostitution & Trafficking/Law and Policy/Library/Prostitution/Sex Buyers (“the demand”)/Trafficking
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…
Norma Hotaling
Norma Hotaling, founder and Executive Director of the SAGE Project in San Francisco died on December 16, 2008 following a short illness. Norma Hotaling transformed…
No Decriminalization of Traffickers – NoonK.net
PRE has documented the harms of decriminalized prostitution on this website for many years. Now, San Francisco voters face a real risk of across-the-board decriminalization…
Prostitution Policy Recommendations to the City of San Francisco
Strongly criminalizing johns is the most effective legal approach to date to the harms of violence and exploitation that prostitution inflicts on those used in…
Decriminalization of Prostitution Defeated in San Francisco
On the same wonderful evening that Barack Obama was voted in as our next president, Proposition K which would have decriminalized prostitution in San Francisco,…
Happy Hooker Revisited
Xaviera Hollander, who wrote the Happy Hooker in the 1970’s, glamorized prostitution as empowerment for women. Few know that Hollander was a Holocaust survivor. Playwright…
Challenging Men’s Demand for Prostitution in Scotland
This is a research report based on interviews with 110 scottish men who bought women in prostitution. We asked interviewees about the extent to which…
Is Paying for Sex Really Worth It? No, Prostitution Exploits Many Women’s Deep Pain
Myers-Powell writes about her personal experience with prostitution relating it to the exploitation and deep pain that prostitution causes. Myers-Powell is a survivor of prostitution…