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…
Library/Mental and Physical Health Effects of Prostitution and the Sex Trade/Prostitution/Sex Buyers (“the demand”)
Prostitution Harms Women Even if Indoors
This article describes the social invisibility of indoor prostitution, points out the lack of evidence suggesting that indoor prostitution is “safe,” and summarizes the testimony…
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‘Bad for the Body, Bad for the Heart’: Prostitution Harms Women Even if Legalized or Decriminalized
With examples from a 2003 New Zealand prostitution law, this article discusses the logical inconsistencies in laws sponsoring prostitution and includes evidence for the physical,…
Streets Apart
In the debate about prostitution, there are those, like the Dutch, who advocate legalising it, and those, like the Swedes, who want to get women…
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Prostitution and the Invisibility of Harm
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…
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Prostitution and Trafficking of Women and Children from Mexico to the United States
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…
How Prostitution Works
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…
Prostitution in 5 Countries: Violence and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Research summary and discussion of the life conditions of 475 people in prostitution in South Africa, Thailand, Turkey, USA & Zambia. These people live in…
Prostitution As Violence Against Women
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…
Prostitution and Civil Rights
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…