Have you heard that SWAAY has an Epic Step campaign to create the first sex workers’ rights billboard in America? Epic Step is like the Kickstarter of billboards, so they need your donations in order to make this happen. Just look at how many anti-sex work billboards there are. 10. I feel like twitter is… Continue reading Top 10 Anti-Sex Work Billboards
Category: Cops
The Week In Links: July 1
Not-quite-strippers in Saskatchewan find a way around the laws against dancing for alcohol drinking patrons. The Scarlet Alliance’s Elena Jeffreys explains why feminists should listen to sex workers. Des Moines police have arrested two people, a man and a woman, for the brutal murder of a prostitute in 2010, while Liverpool police may have solved the 2005… Continue reading The Week In Links: July 1
Savvy Prostitutes, Romantic Johns, and Bad Police Work
When it takes a police force six months of “sting”-level efforts to arrest 36 people for prostitution or solicitation (no trafficking charges, no minors involved, no coercion, and only one drug charge) either that police force is terrible or prostitution is rare in their area. Quite possibly, in Syracuse, both are true. Last week, I… Continue reading Savvy Prostitutes, Romantic Johns, and Bad Police Work
Daughters Shouldn’t be Prostitutes…or Treated as Full Human Beings
This might come as a shock, but all of us here at Tits and Sass are daughters. For Freakonomics-famous, probably John Mayer-loving Steven Levitt, this is a hard pill to swallow. He thinks that because women so often are dissuaded from performing illegal sex work because of its illegality (ha,) it is a good idea… Continue reading Daughters Shouldn’t be Prostitutes…or Treated as Full Human Beings
Strip Club Owners: Pay Your Damn Taxes
Natalia tweeted this photo during a raid that happened at the Dolphin II in Beaverton, OR last month. It wasn’t a drug raid but a tax one, as it turns out, the consequence of an undercover investigation. Portland’s Willamette Week published this story about a federal investigation into tax misbehavior by the owners of Portland’s… Continue reading Strip Club Owners: Pay Your Damn Taxes