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…
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…
Lists 18 common myths about trafficking and provides the factual evidence as alternatives.
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, founder and Executive Director of the SAGE Project in San Francisco died on December 16, 2008 following a short illness. Norma Hotaling transformed…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
Graphic showing the class and race hierarchy in prostitution. There is a pyramid-like hierarchy in prostitution. At the top are a very few women –…
Dennis Hof is a legal pimp in a Nevada brothel. He advertises his brothel on an HBO pseudo-documentary series with the full support and collaboration…
The United States government cannot reduce international trafficking without also combating trafficking inside our own borders. The US House of Representatives in 2007 overwhelmingly passed…
[Part 3 of a 3 part series, Part 1, Part 2] I must have hit a nerve. While in Las Vegas last week, I interviewed…
[Part 2 of a 3 part series, Part 1, Part 3] Amber is 19 years old and on Sunday she caught a flight out of…
[Part 1 of a 3 part series, Part 2, Part 3] Las Vegas There is probably no city in America where women are treated worse…
Qualitative study addressing the specific healing needs of prostituted African American women. Description of culturally specific services at an Afrocentric program for women escaping prostitution
What about addressing the physical and sexual abuse of children as a national emergency? Andrew Vachss wrote in Mask Market, pages 103-104: “Producers spun their…