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
Tag: Prostitution
“Pretty Woman” Is Real
If there’s one element Pretty Woman is most commonly maligned for, it’s the improbable ending of a street working prostitute whisked away by a filthy rich client. Civilians love to crow about how wildly unrealistic it is to think that a john will ever marry his sex worker and yeah, if you’re entering into sex… Continue reading “Pretty Woman” Is Real
Chester Brown’s Paying for It
The sex worker rights movement desperately needs more men outing themselves as johns, standing with sex workers, and defending the right for consenting adults to buy and sell sex. But while I was reading Paying For It, a graphic memoir by Canadian john Chester Brown who does just that, I kept thinking one thing: I… Continue reading Chester Brown’s Paying for It
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
The Week In Links: June 3
You may have already seen the above video but of course we had to include here for good measure. He’s dancing to Girl Talk!