Week in Links—September 19th

  Week in Links recently linked to the new book Male Sex Workers; the Advocate featured an excerpt from it this week. The new documentary Invisible follows former sex worker Richard Holcomb as he does HIV/AIDS outreach with male sex workers in Providence, Rhode Island. Despite the lurid hysteria and funding opportunities offered by the specter of… Continue reading Week in Links—September 19th

The Week In Links—December 6

This awesome graphic came from the Cross Border Collective.

On Dec. 4 brothels, strip clubs and sex shops in Soho, London were raided by over 200 police officers. The officers arrived in  riot vans and were reinforced by a police helicopter. Think about that for a second: 200 police officers were deployed. That’s a literal army.  The English Collective of Prostitutes’ response to this… Continue reading The Week In Links—December 6

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