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...
Prostitution’s Hierarchy of Control and Coercion
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 –...
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Nevada Legal Pimp Dennis Hof Podcast Highlights
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...
