In this week’s magnificent, BFD news, an Australian prostitute won her discrimination lawsuit against a hotel that kicked her out because of her (legal) profession, not because of any disruptive behavior. American news media was all over it, apparently rubbing it in the faces of American prostitutes, who are so, so far away from having… Continue reading The Week In Links: August 10
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The Week In Links: August 3
Susannah Breslin reports from the Exxotica Porn Convention on how the business has changed over the last decade. A series of home invasions and robberies in San Francisco targeted Asian sex workers. A volunteer EMT’s past as a porn performer is a source of controversy in Roanoke County, VA. Looks like the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee wasn’t… Continue reading The Week In Links: August 3
The Week In Links: July 27
Indian sex workers who could not get visas to attend the International HIV/AIDS Conference in Washington, D.C., held a parallel meeting in Kolkata this week. Over 800 sex workers and activists from over 41 countries participated. Canadian strip clubs and massage parlors announced plans to recruit at high school job fairs now that the government has discontinued visas… Continue reading The Week In Links: July 27
The Week in Links: July 6
This video of Olivia Munn and Bethenny Frankel trying to pole dance hurts my soul a little. Leave it to professionals, ladies. Porn star James Deen swears that he’s not fucking Lindsay Lohan, and that if he was, “I think I would tell everybody.” GQ ran a profile of him anyway. Adult businesses in Canada can no… Continue reading The Week in Links: July 6
The Week in Links: May 25
The Stop the Arrests movement is calling for a moratorium on prostitution arrests in London throughout the 2012 Olympics. Meanwhile there’s manufactured prostitution hysteria in the Ukraine preceding the Euro soccer championship. Laura Agustín links to studies that have disproven the myth that trafficking spikes around major sporting events. NYPD cop by day, stripper by night Steve… Continue reading The Week in Links: May 25