A Florida escort was arrested on charges of attempted murder for nearly biting her client’s penis off. It’s possible that this woman was just fulfilling a treasured universal sex worker fantasy, but I think it’s more likely there was an assault on the client’s part that we’re not hearing about. Two teenage girls drowned in an attempt… Continue reading The Week In Links – April 5th
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The Week In Links–March 29th
Louis Vutton has been accused of promoting prostitution in a promo video for its 2013 fall collection, in which models do a poor imitation of street workers on a Parisian set. Sex work abolitionist feminist Joan Smith concludes in the Independent that the Swedish model of criminalizing clients works, based on her experience jumping in a squad car to… Continue reading The Week In Links–March 29th
Activist Spotlight: Nine, on Bad Policies and Holding Abolitionists To Account
Nine is an itinerant writer from Northern Ireland, who spent several years working at an outreach project for sex workers in Scotland before being made redundant in 2009. Recently, she has written and spoken against attempts by politicians and feminist organisations to criminalise the purchase of sex in Scotland, most notably in the barnstorming essay… Continue reading Activist Spotlight: Nine, on Bad Policies and Holding Abolitionists To Account
“There Can’t Be Numbers:” An Interview With Laura Agustín, Part 2
Yesterday, we posted Part One of an interview with Sex at the Margins author Dr. Laura Agustín. Today we present our second and final segment. It’s incredibly common now to see abolitionists argue that when prostitution is legal, as it in Amsterdam, trafficking only increases. What does the most current research actually suggest? Everyone wants… Continue reading “There Can’t Be Numbers:” An Interview With Laura Agustín, Part 2
The Week in Links: May 27
A Stockholm sex worker was kicked out of school—meaning banned from taking classes, not banned from teaching—because of her (legal) work. This on top of the news that European students are increasingly entering into or considering entering into the sex industry. Kristen Davis aka the Manhattan Madam is claiming that Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the (former) IMF… Continue reading The Week in Links: May 27