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…
Prostitution, the Sex Trade, and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Article available in English and Japanese
R. Kelly’s Arrest Barely Scratches Surface of a Much-needed #MeToo Reckoning for Black Girls
Analysis: What would it take for America to confront its ugliest and most complicated attitudes toward race, gender and sex?
For Kenyette Barnes, last week was, in a word, strange. After years of rumors and allegations, police in Chicago arrested the singer and producer R. Kelly on charges that he sexually abused four women, three of whom were teenagers at the time.
The Racial Roots of Human Trafficking
This Article explores the role of race in the prostitution and sex trafficking of people of color, particularly minority youth, and the evolving legal and social responses in the United States.
Sex Trade Survivors Support City’s Proposal to Move Strip Clubs
Powerful quotes from prostitution survivors who were trafficked or prostituted via strip club prostitution in Reno Nevada, where prostitution is illegal. They describe the cozy…
Prostitution and Trafficking in Asia
Prostitution causes grave physical and emotional harm to women and girls. It transforms women and children into a special type of commodity in which men…
Library/Mental and Physical Health Effects of Prostitution and the Sex Trade/Prostitution/Trafficking
Second Thoughts: Should US Physicians Support the Decriminalization of Commercial Sex?
Rothman argues against decriminalized prostitution and in favor of the Nordic Model, based on both the ethical dilemmas of non consent, financial inducement, and vulnerability…
The Prostitution and Trafficking of American Indian/Alaska Native Women in Minnesota
Abstract We examined social and physical violence experienced by American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) women in prostitution and their impacts on the mental and physical health…
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…
Honoring the “Comfort Women”
Prostitution comforted Japanese solders but tortured women in the military brothels.
A Human Rights Scandal
The Vice President of a group that officially advised a top UN body on its prostitution policy was jailed earlier this year for sex trafficking….
Out of Sight
On a Saturday night in late May, I sat in the back seat of a taxi as it drove through a shantytown in Baghdad. We…
Sexual Exploitation and Trafficking of Aboriginal Women and Girls
This research was prepared for the Canadian Women’s Foundation’s National Task Force on Trafficking of Women and Girls.This research will form a comprehensive picture on…
70 Years After V-J Day, Still No Honor for Japanese Empire’s ‘Comfort Women’
The history of the so-called comfort women constitutes one of the most egregious war crimes of the 20th century, but it has never been officially…
The Porn Industry Is Abusive, and These Women Are Telling It Like It Is
Holly Madison, Rashida Jones’ Hot Girls Wanted, and Miriam Weeks (aka Belle Knox) shed light on a misunderstood phenomenon. “Who has seen Rashida Jones’ new…