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Shut Down Pornhub and Hold Its Executives Accountable for Aiding Trafficking PRE supports Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter. This organization offers support to women…
White Girl Moans Black Lives Matter
Pornhub’s #BLM genre and the industry’s brash racism. Outwardly, Pornhub has joined large companies such as Amazon, Twitter, and Nike in the corporate rush to…
Books We Recommend
Pornography: The Politics of Legal Challenges Max Waltman, 2021Oxford University Press View book at Oxford University Press Spinning and Weaving: Radical Feminism for the 21st…
R. Kelly’s Arrest Barely Scratches Surface of a Much-needed #MeToo Reckoning for Black Girls
Analysis: What would it take for America to confront its ugliest and most complicated attitudes toward race, gender and sex?
For Kenyette Barnes, last week was, in a word, strange. After years of rumors and allegations, police in Chicago arrested the singer and producer R. Kelly on charges that he sexually abused four women, three of whom were teenagers at the time.
J.Lo’s pole dancing during the Super Bowl is not benign
Remember the meme that said, “Camping: when rich people spend a fortune to live outdoors like poor people”? That could similarly be extended to pole “sport,” where wealthy women pay to re-enact women’s sexual servitude.
Online Attacks Against Activists Who Oppose Sexism and Sexual Exploitation
This 10-minute video describes Anita Sarkeesian’s experience with cybermobbing – a massive online hate campaign. She was targeted by large numbers of anonymous online attackers…
How litigation laid the ground for accountability after #MeToo
It was legal recognition that broke the rule of impunity that the more power a man has, the more sex he can exact from those…
#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…
Six survivors speak out about harms of New Zealand’s legal sex industry
Rae Story, excerpt from Working in a New Zealand brothel was anything but ‘a job like any other’, published on Feminist Current The boss liked…
Welcome to Paradise: Investigative Report on German Legal Prostitution
Paradise is a brothel in Stuttgart. It’s one of Germany’s “mega-brothels” and, like a lot of those establishments, it has a Moroccan theme. Picture a…
Amnesty International and Emily Bazelon whitewash prostitution, leaving Indigenous women and girls to deal with the consequences
The full decriminalization of prostitution has received considerable mainstream media attention of late: On May 5, the New York Times published an article by Emily…
I THOUGHT SEX WORK WOULD BE EMPOWERING AND FEMINIST. I WAS DEAD WRONG.
My modern version of prostitution was fun, easy and body-positive—until it wasn’t.
Mr. Obama, Tear Down This Liability Shield
Online trolls have launched another barrage of attacks in the strange, petty little war over “ethics in journalism” we call GamerGate. Perennial troll targets Anita Sarkeesian…
Gail Dines names 50 shades of grey for what it is: battering.
This Valentine’s Day, countless moviegoers plan to make a date with Fifty Shades of Grey‘s Christian Grey. I’m not one of them. I’ve met him before….
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…
Fracking and Trafficking
Resource extraction is usually accompanied by prostitution and trafficking. The ecosystem destruction caused by fracking to access oil and gas is paralleled by the quieter destruction of trafficked women who service the frackers. Sexual Violence has dramatically increased in the Bakken region of Montana and North Dakota since the flood of pipeline workers have moved into the ‘man camps,’ military barracks-style housing.
Sex Work – There Is No Such Thing
I’ve heard a few people recently referring to women who work as prostitutes, in pornography and as strippers, as sex workers. This, I have to…
Video: Online Attacks Against Opposition to Sexism and Sexual Exploitation
This 10-minute video describes Anita Sarkeesian’s experience with cybermobbing – a massive online hate campaign. She was targeted by large numbers of anonymous online attackers…
Abolishing Prostitution: A Feminist Human Rights Treaty
Author of Female Sexual Slavery Kathleen Barry, proposes a feminist human rights treaty to abolish prostitution. The author, long active in global human rights, argues…