Prostitution: An Extreme Form of Girls’ Sexualization
Zurbriggen, E. L., & Roberts, T.-A. (Eds.). (2013). The sexualization of girls and girlhood: Causes, consequences, and resistance. Oxford University Press. Abstract For the past...
Prostitution: Exploitation, Persecution, Repression
This 4th Global Report on sexual exploitation reflects the Fondation Scelles’ persistent objectives: for 20 years the foundation has conducted an in-depth and objective study...
Slavery and Prostitution: a Twenty-First Century Abolitionist Perspective
In Linking the Histories of Slavery in North America and Its Borderlands, by Bonnie Martin and James F. Brooks (eds.) Santa Fe: School for Advanced...
Amnesty International and Emily Bazelon whitewash prostitution, leaving Indigenous women and girls to deal with the consequences
The full decriminalization of prostitution has received considerable mainstream media attention of late: On May 5, the New York Times published an article by Emily...
The Evidence About Prostitution That The New York Times Ignored
Women in prostitution wait for customers in Sonagachi, the notorious red-light district of Kolkata, India. (Bikas Das / AP Photo) On May 5, Emily Bazelon,...
The Faux Neutrality of Decriminalisation
Support for decriminalized prostitution is ideological, not empirical
Sex Trafficking and the State: Applying Domestic Abuse Interventions to Serve Victims of Sex Trafficking
Abstract Advocacy and scholarship addressing sex trafficking as a human rights issue has become a transnational effort, but there has been less attention to sub-national...
