Consent, coercion, and culpability: Is prostitution stigmatized work or an exploitive and violent practice rooted in sex, race, and class inequality?
Author: Rachel Moran and Melissa Farley
Date: 2018
QuickFacts
Very inconvenient truths: sex buyers, sexual coercion, and prostitution-harm-denial
Prostitution Is Not Just Another Job
It’s time we stopped justifying the exploitation and abuse of those with the fewest options under the guise of choice.
Pornography, Prostitution, & Trafficking: Making the Connections
18 Myths on Prostitution
Speaking of Prostitution
Arguments and counterarguments about prostitution by the Women’s Front in Sweden, 2013.
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.
Help Wanted: Women and Girls, Do You Want This Job?
Biting satire by survivors of prostitution: a help wanted ad for the “job” of prostitution.
Commercialized Sexual Assault of Children (AKA prostitution of children)
There are no reliable data on the prevalence of sexual assault of children in prostitution, also known as CSEC, also known as trafficking of children. Stransky and Finkelhor conclude that while there have been many estimates of these numbers, none are based on sound research. This is a brief description of the research dilemma in […]
Intelligence Squared Debate “It’s wrong to pay for sex”
Rockefeller University, New York, NY
Myths & Facts about Legalized Prostitution
Lists 18 common myths about trafficking and provides the factual evidence as alternatives.
Myths & Facts About Nevada Legal Prostitution
A new fact sheet on legal prostitution in Nevada is available on the Nevada Coalition Against Sex Trafficking (NCAST) web site.
Juvenile Prostitution Factsheet
Discussion of the non- reliability of most estimates of the number of children in prostitution.
Human Trafficking and Prostitution
Brief overview of human trafficking and prostitution written for Psychologists for Social Responsibility.
Frequently-Asked Questions about Prostitution
S.M. Berg has published responses to frequently-asked questions about prostitution. For example: Isn’t prostitution a choice? Don’t a lot of women enjoy it? Porn and stripping aren’t prostitution, right? Aren’t you making personal moral judgments? Don’t some people need sex but can’t get it any other way? Isn’t it better to get a lot of […]