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…
Survivors say the Nordic model is our only hope
People were turned away from a packed, standing-room only panel, addressing the impacts of various prostitution legislation around the world, on Monday afternoon. Organized by…
Linking the Histories of Slavery: North America and its Borderlands
Just published, Dec 2015:
Chapter on Prostitution and Slavery: a 21st century abolitionist perspective by Melissa Farley
On Prostitution, the Left has Taken a Right-Wing Turn
Jonah Mix notes the similarity of the pro-prostitution Amnesty International with men’s rights groups and the political right generally.
Ridiculing Trafficking Victims
“The daily comics are not known to be bastions of feminist thought but a strip in the San Francisco Chronicle on Saturday September 29, 2012…
The Village that Swept Away Evil
Girls’ education prevents prostitution in communities of poverty.
27 New Laws on Florida’s Books
Florida increases penalty for buyers of sex.
Decriminalizing Prostitution
Amnesty International does not realize their mistake.
Amnesty International campaign to decriminalise pimps and sex buyers
Amnesty International began as an organization aligned with vulnerable people who had few rights. Those in prostitution often describe it as paid rape – a…
Hundreds of women’s groups and advocates protest Amnesty International’s proposed prostitution policy.
Over 400 women’s groups & advocates sign letter protesting Amnesty International’s position on prostitution.