Sex buyers are unregistered sex predators
A defensive sex buyer wrote this and TIME ran it. Where are survivors’ voices in response to sex buyers’ and pimps’ promotion of the business of sexual exploitation?…
Meghan Murphy on Sex Buyer Apologist Chris Atchison
Murphy’s critique of the way that sex buyers are defended by some sex industry advocates is truly instructive. The testimony came in the course of debate…
Prostitution is created and supported by a culture of men’s perceived entitlement to sex
Elliot Rodger wrote that he was motivated to kill because of his anger that women were not available to him for sex. This attitude is…
“It’s inconceivable to me that Amnesty International or any other organization that respects human rights would endorse slave masters who buy young girls and put them into involuntary servitude to be sex slaves,” said Jimmy Carter.
After reviewing approaches to prostitution, Jimmy Carter concluded that ” the most important policy change will be to increase penalties for pimps and consumers and…
Captivity is mental
“There’s a lot of people that go through tremendous pain, and just because you’re not chained up and you’re not locked in the basement doesn’t…
NY To Protect Sexually Exploited Girls
NY is about to pass a law decriminalizing trafficked girls rather than arresting them. All states now need to stop arresting any woman in prostitution…
The European parliament has voted in favour of new prostitution laws that criminalize the sex buyer and seller but not the prostituted person
The vote passed Feb 26, 2014 with a large majority of 343 to 139. Mary Honeyball, the Labour MEP for London who put forward the…
A short documentary film about the trafficking and prostitution of Native Women and youth in the Duluth and Thunder Bay harbors
Making Waves, Aboriginal Peoples Television Network, February 22, 2014.
Members of France’s Parliament vote to support law criminalizing sex buyers
On November 29, 2013, French MPs voted in support of a version of the Swedish law on prostitution that criminalizes the purchase of sex with…
“Only a world without prostitution is human” – German feminist Alice Schwarzer
In Germany, where prostitution and brothels are legal, 90 celebrities (from both the right and the left wing) recently signed a petition asking to change…
PRE opposes UN’s promotion of legal prostitution
A woman inside this Nevada legal brothel said, “No one really enjoys getting sold. It’s like you sign a contract to be raped.” Evidence suggests…
Proposed French law garners support from most of the public but an aggressive sexist response from 343 sex buyers
France is considering criminalizing sex buyers, while decriminalizing women in prostitution, as Sweden does now. The proposed law also provides support for the rehabilitation of…
Austerity programs cause brutal cuts in public services and result in more prostitution
Copyright © 2013. Angelos Tzortzinis. All Rights Reserved “A prostitute who bears scars on her arm from the time she tried to kill herself in…
Beyonce is not a role model for young women
Today, the cultural sexualization of girls increasingly overlaps with and merges into prostitution. The most visible example of sexual objectification today is Beyonce Knowles. “Variations…
California’s Red Light Abatement Act shuts down motels that were assisting pimps
A judge ordered two Oakland, California motels to close for a year and to pay hefty fines after being sued by the city for decades…
SAVE THE DATE: Protest Backpage.com’s Facilitation of Sex Trafficking
The Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW) in partnership with Prostitution Research and Education (PRE) and other co-sponsors will hold our second protest in front…
Village Voice is no ally in the fight against human trafficking
Just as the argument that the regulation of prostitution makes it safer for women is patently misleading, the argument that Backpage.com should keep its “adult…
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…