Researchers interviewed 854 people currently or recently in prostitution in nine countries (Canada, Colombia, Germany, Mexico, South Africa, Thailand, Turkey, United States, and Zambia), inquiring…
The harm of prostitution is socially invisible, and it is also invisible in the law, in public health, and in psychology. This article addresses origins…
A description of the historical background of sex trafficking from Mexico to the United States and summaries of two cases illustrating the complexity of providing…
In 1999, Sweden passed legislation that criminalized the purchase of sexual services, which in essence decriminalized prostituted persons and placed penalties only on the buyers,…
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….
Overview of the global sex trade with a focus on Ukrainian women’s experiences.
Said It: Feminist News, Culture, Politics What a world we live in, a male-framed world, where global economics sets in concrete a system of winners…
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…
Overview of trafficking of women and children into the United States prior to the passage of the Trafficking Victims’ Protection Act of 2000. This report…
First Nations women in Canadian prostitution are harmed today because of the legacies of colonialism. “When sexual oppression is intersected by racism, and capitalism, the…
A description of customers, pimps, and the ways that young people get into prostitution. Prostitution, pornography, and other forms of commercial sex are a multi-billion…
Research summary and discussion of the life conditions of 475 people in prostitution in South Africa, Thailand, Turkey, USA & Zambia. These people live in…
Most discussions of the public health risks of prostitution have focused on sexually-transmitted disease. A recent editorial in a major medical journal acknowledged the danger…
This article discusses how prostitution is exempted from other kinds of violence and human rights violations, how prostitution is legitimized by distinctions between “forced” and…
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…
Despite the erroneously held belief that legalizing prostitution would empower women, the reality is that legalizing prostitution would only bring more harm to the women…
A discussion about the ways racism channels African American women into prostitution. Once in prostitution the discrimination continues.
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…
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…
“Prostitution is in and of itself an abuse of a woman’s body.” “In prostitution, no woman stays whole.” Discussion of the incest that precedes prostitution,…