Prostitution Linked to Organized Crime
British National Party members outside of Liverpool Crown Court as 9 gang members sentenced for child exploitation. Prostitution around the world is linked to organized…
Discussion of Harms to Women in Prostitution Absent from Coverage of Secret Service Scandal
Secret Service agents in Cartagena, Colombia. Photo by Fernando Llano/AP Prostitution hurts women in it, including the women in Cartagena’s legal brothels. NPR’s Scott Simon…
Nickels: A Tale of Dissociation
Nickels: A Tale of Dissociation follows a biracial girl named Little Miss So And So, from age 4 into adulthood. Told in a series of…
Must-see film about prostitution and the criminal justice system
‘Crime After Crime’: Documentary on Debbie Peagler Debbie Peagler was serving a life sentence for her involvement in her boyfriend’s murder – a boyfriend who…
Link between political corruption and legal prostitution
Candice Trummell is Co-Director of Nevada Coalition Against Sex Trafficking. She was the Chair of the Nye County Commission. Trummell cooperated with the FBI, wearing…
Unmaking War, Remaking Men: Kathleen Barry book launch October 24, San Francisco
Kathleen Barry’s new book celebration sponsored by Code Pink Sunday October 24th 2:00pm The Women’s Building Audre Lorde Room, 2nd Floor 3543 18th Street San…
What does this series on tyranny have to do with prostitution?
A lot! Let me know what you think. Melissa Farley Step One – ‘Us and Them’ Step Two – ‘Obey’ Step Three ‘Do Them Harm’…
“Craigslist is Trafficking Women” open appeal to Craig
United Press International SAN FRANCISCO, May 20 (UPI) — An advertisement placed in a California newspaper said Craiglist’s adult services section is “the choice of…
How Prostitution Chose Me
They say prostitution is a choice? How did I choose prostitution? I didn’t choose prostitution, it chose me. Just as child sexual assault and neglect…
Guide for Mothers,Grandmothers and Others for Helping a Girl Caught in Prostitution or Sex Trafficking
This is an extremely helpful guide available in Spanish and English from Women’s Justice Center, Santa Rosa, California. A Guide for Mothers, Grandmothers, and Others,…
Johns are Sexual Predators
Let’s clear up a misunderstanding. Men do not go to strip clubs and use prostituted women so that they can have sexual pleasure. All you…
Elliot Spitzer’s College Course: How to Use the Boys’ Club to Avoid Criminal Prosecution and Subjugate Women
The president of City College, Gregory H. Williams has asked Elliot Spitzer to teach a course in Law and Public Policy. Meanwhile, Ashley Dupre, a…
What do girls need to stay out of prostitution?
“Someplace safe,” she said. “Someplace to be a girl. Someplace where I won’t have to have sex with men anymore.” Read the rest of the…
US Culture Disconnected from Reality, Obsessed with Adolescence, Michael Jacksonesque
Herbert describes US culture, like Jackson, as extremely immature, grotesquely irresponsible, and as refusing to know the truth of things. Herbert sees a misogynist, pedophiliac…
Woman exchanges sex acts for food June 2009
This story was all over the U.S. press in late June. No one seems to be noting what is obvious. MAYBE SHE WAS HUNGRY. Why…
Eminem, Misogyny, and the Sounds of Silence
Two excerpts: One need not argue that boys and men who listen to Eminem will become rapist-murderers in order to maintain that misogynous music and…
Japan bans sexual torture software
A Japanese software industry body has decided to ban computer games in which players simulate sexual violence against females, a spokesman said. The industry move…
Documentary about Oakland internet escort and street prostitution
This is an excellent documentary about Oakland prostitution, about 22 minutes long. Internet prostitution is described by one young woman, and the valuable work of…
Proposition K would decriminalize pimps in San Francisco
A woman with a history of pimping (and a conviction for pimping in Seattle) has proposed that San Francisco decriminalize prostitution. It will be voted…
Time to Revise the Trafficking Victims Protection Act
Taking On the Traffickers The Federal Trafficking and Victims Protection Act of 2000 was an ambitious attempt to rescue women and children who are smuggled…