Abolishing Prostitution: A Feminist Human Rights Treaty
Author of Female Sexual Slavery Kathleen Barry, proposes a feminist human rights treaty to abolish prostitution. The author, long active in global human rights, argues…
Ontario Disempowers Prostituted Persons: Assessing Evidence, Arguments, & Substantive Equality in Bedford v. Canada
Max Waltman’s paper analyzes the Court of Appeal for Ontario’s ruling on March 26, 2012, concluding that it erroneously rewrote the law against “living on…
Library/Mental and Physical Health Effects of Prostitution and the Sex Trade/Pimps/Traffickers/Prostitution/Trafficking
Prostitution Ring in Madrid Tattooed 19-year-old Woman with Bar Code
CNN reported that Spanish police rescued a 19 year old woman who had been branded with a bar code by trafficking gang members. STORY HIGHLIGHTS…
Prostitution and Trafficking – Quick Facts
Introductory facts and descriptive summaries for those wanting to get more involved and have a deeper understanding of the issues. Carefully documented.
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Garden of Truth: The Prostitution and Trafficking of Native Women in Minnesota
Three-year research study about the prostitution and trafficking of 105 Native Women in Minnesota. Native women are particularly vulnerable to sexual exploitation because of a…
Comparing Sex Buyers and Non-Sex Buyers
Comparing Sex Buyers with Men Who Don’t Buy Sex: “You can have a good time with the servitude” vs. “You’re supporting a system of degradation” Paper presented at…
Trafficking, Prostitution, and Inequality
Catharine A. MacKinnon describes evidence supporting the Nordic model legislation on prostitution and discusses links between prostitution, pornography, and trafficking.
Prohibiting Sex Purchasing and Ending Trafficking: The Swedish Prostitution Law (2011)
This article by Max Waltman analyzes the Swedish prostitution law from 1999, which criminalized the sex buyer and decriminalized prostituted persons. He analyzes this law…
Trafficking, Prostitution and the Sex Industry: The Nordic Legal Model
There is no doubt that the Nordic countries lead the world on most indicators of gender equality. Gender equality experts and advocates have long pointed out that in economics, politics and social services, the Nordic countries top the charts.
Indoor Versus Outdoor Prostitution in Rhode Island
“Nobody really wants to be sold,” a woman in a Nevada legal brothel explained to me. Even if you know that simple fact — that…
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Myths & Facts about Legalized Prostitution
Lists 18 common myths about trafficking and provides the factual evidence as alternatives.
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Trafficking: Theory vs Reality
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…
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…
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…
Aboriginal Women’s Statement on Legal Prostitution, Canada
As Aboriginal women on occupied Coast Salish Territory, we, the Aboriginal Women’s Action Network (AWAN) implore you to pay attention to the voices of Aboriginal…
Prostitution: Consent or Men’s Violence Against Women?
Scott Hampton, Psy.D. wrote this article for the New Jersey Coalition Against Sexual Assault Fall 2007 Newsletter. He is Director of Ending the Violence. 90…
Ex-Prostitutes Against Legislated Sexual Servitude
Contact: xpalss@shaw.ca A statement by members of Ex-Prostitutes Against Legislated Sexual Servitude. Includes a version of the statement in French. “We are women who have been…
Not For Sale – Video on Prostitution & Trafficking
Not For Sale was produced by the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW) and the European Women’s Lobby (EWL) in 2006. This documentary by filmmaker…
Unequal
This article responds to Debbie Nathan’s “Oversexed” (Nation, August 29, 2005). Nathan sympathizes with those on the Left who consider prostitution a form of labor…
X underrated
Prostitution, pornography, and sex trafficking aren’t separable in the real world. In this piece for the Times Educational Supplement in 2005, Catharine MacKinnon focuses on…