The Confusion between Pimping and Trafficking
Sex trade businessmen benefit when they obscure the meanings of words. Some words hide the truth. Just as torture is named enhanced interrogation, and logging…
Trans Advocacy and Sexwork Advocacy: Political Movements Rooted in Sexual Objectification
In 2002, I consulted with Andrea Dworkin as I struggled to understand data from a nine-country study of prostitution.1 The prostituted men who identified as…
An artificial language designed to present men and women as a homogenous group is particularly harmful to prostitution survivors
This language does not allow a discourse on the differences between the sexes in the context of the sex industry. We freely discuss that most…
Online and Technology-facilitated Trafficking in Human Beings
Internet, and information communication technology (ICT) more generally, play a major role in shaping our lives. The Covid-19 pandemic has laid bare the extent to…
Men who pay for sex in Germany and what they teach us about the failure of legal prostitution: a 6-country report on the sex trade from the perspective of the socially invisible ‘freiers’
By Melissa Farley, Inge Kleine, Kerstin Neuhaus, Yoanna McDowell, Silas Schulz, Saskia Nitschmann November 8, 2022 PRE and partners present the results of multi-country research…
Woman as Resource: A Reply to Catharine MacKinnon
Jane Clare Jones argues, contra MacKinnon, that decoupling sex and gender deprives feminist analysis of its explanatory power.
From Feminism to Transgenderism: Catharine MacKinnon and her Political Transition
As a Marxist, I was influenced by radical feminism when, as a graduate student, I read Catharine MacKinnon’s book Feminism Unmodified. That was 30 years…
Current Concerns About Gender‑Affirming Therapy in Adolescents
A systematic review of evidence conducted by public health authorities in Finland, Sweden, and England concluded that the risk/benefit ratio of youth gender transition ranges…