Green Party of the United States continues its support of Swedish prostitution law.
An attempt to repeal the Greens’ support for the Nordic Model and replace it with language decriminalizing pimps and sex buyers failed on July 1,…
#MeToo: what prostitution survivors say about the links between prostitution and sexual harassment and rape
The #MeToo groundswell of women’s voices challenging everyday sexual predation by men like Donald Trump, Harvey Weinstein, Bill Cosby, Woody Allen and some of our…
Prostitution Robots or Sex Dolls?
A sex buyer in a research study explained that the woman in prostitution is “just a biological object…that charges for services” Sex buyers define women as…
Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Canada, Northern Ireland and now: VIVE LA FRANCE!!!
On April 6, 2016, France passed an abolitionist law against prostitution that criminalizes sex buyers but decriminalizes women in prostitution. A major element of the…
Melissa Farley’s response to UN Women
Response to “Consultation seeking views on UN Women’s approach to sex work, the sex trade and prostitution”. Prostitution Research & Education’s goal has been to…
Emily Ratajkowski & Naomi Wolf team up to sell Playboy Feminism
Emily Ratajkowski & Naomi Wolf team up to sell Playboy Feminism
Decriminalizing Prostitution In South Africa: A Recipe to Extinguish the Legacy of Sara Baartman
Proposal for an equality prostitution law in South Africa
Cilem Dugan resists abuse, kills husband
Cilem Dogan resists abuse, kills husband (June 23, 2016)
Sonia Ossorio, National Organization for Women -New York, Letter to NY Times
Sonia Ossorio National Organization for Women-New York Letter to NY Times
Is the New York Times Endorsing Legalization of Prostitution?
Is the New York Times Endorsing Legalization of Prostitution
It Doesn’t Take a Third Party
In no form of gender-based violence other than prostitution do we weigh the veracity of the victimization of a person on whether or not there…
Letter to sex buyers from a Danish survivor of prostitution
Letter to sex buyers from a Danish survivor of prostitution
Sex trade survivors report that decriminalization across-the-board gives pimps more power.
Liberals must face the reality of what prostitution does to women
Of Course I Have a Fucking “Moral Problem” With Prostitution
Last week, the New York Times ran Emily Bazelon’s piece, _Should Prostitution be a Crime__
Prostitution Tells Women What They Can and Can’t Do With Their Own Bodies
Prostitution, as a practice, just is men telling women what they can and can’t do with their bodies. It’s men telling women how to use their bodies, how to move their bodies, how to dress their bodies. What men tell women do with their bodies is the primal guide for how prostitution functions; if we stopped, prostitution couldn’t function. Like all markets, supply responds to demand and the customer is always right. The problem is that the customer wants a fuckable object, not a human being.
Punish Clients, Not Prostitutes
Criminalizing the client changes the entire legal and social approach to the phenomenon; the social and legal disgrace moves from the prostitute to the client, and it is he who is now subject to sanctions, condemnation and public criticism. It stresses the harm done to women who engage in prostitution, to all women, and to society as a whole, and it makes the debate over illusions of “choice” and “consent” superfluous by acknowledging that those caught up in the cycle of prostitution don’t have real choice. The discussion is focused on the damage prostitution causes and how to prevent it.
The death of Daria Pionko shows there is no “safe” way to manage prostitution
Daria Pionko was supposed to be safe. Or safer, anyway. That, at least, was part of the thinking behind the “managed prostitution area” established in…