In early 2010, Dave Elms, founder of the infamous website The Erotic Review (best known as the review site where clients rate prostitutes on a scale of 1-10), was arrested after talking to an undercover officer in an attempt to hire a hit man. Elms wanted to pay for the murder of an escort and… Continue reading The Big Ripoff: TER, The Texas Murder Aquittal, and the Myth of the Vulnerable Client
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The Week In Links–May 10th
Seven sex workers’ rights organizations have been denied the right to intervene in the Supreme Court case deciding the constitutionality of Canada’s prostitution laws. However, many religious and abolitionist groups supporting the prostitution laws will be allowed a hearing, much to sex workers’ rights advocates’ outrage. Nassau County is the first county in NY state to… Continue reading The Week In Links–May 10th
The Week In Links: February 1
The above (SFW) ad for PornHub was rejected for broadcast during the Super Bowl. Speaking of the Super Bowl, here’s a bunch of stories about trafficking hysteria and arrests in New Orleans plus a non-hysterical article about the city’s strip clubs. A nursing home in England is under investigation after the East Sussex County Council… Continue reading The Week In Links: February 1
The Week in Links: September 7
The art director for Orange County Where magazine (as opposed to Orange County Whore magazine) could have done a little bit better with photo placement on the cover of the latest issue. Oops! They tweeted that they’d be printing a replacement issue. The New York State Department of Taxation and Finance is fighting to impose an 8 percent… Continue reading The Week in Links: September 7
The Week In Links: July 13
“The Stripper” celebrated its 5oth anniversary of topping the charts this week. STOP EVERYTHING—there will be a sequel to Magic Mike. We like the sound of it being “bigger.” (Wink wink.) Texas police publicly held down and beat a pregnant woman with an outstanding prostitution charge. Officials maintain that the three officers involved “followed procedure.” Octomom Nadya Suleman… Continue reading The Week In Links: July 13