GQ praises Richard Gere’s sex worker fashion sense in American Gigolo. The news has been awfully short on “sex workers flocking to [Super Bowl City]” panic this year. Thankfully we found this piece about Brad’s Brass Flamingo in Indianapolis. “No one knows how to party like New Yorkers. And everyone knows they are the best tippers” said… Continue reading The Week In Links: February 3
Tag: trafficking
Off the Street (2011)
I was excited to read and review Off the Street. The true story of Las Vegas vice cop Christopher Baughman, leader of the Pandering Investigation Team (PIT) and Human Trafficking Task Force, it seemed like the perfect read for a sex-work-loving, law enforcement supporter such as myself. The story begins when a prostitute on the… Continue reading Off the Street (2011)
A Protest of a Protest: SOS Oregon Takes on Casa Diablo
I heard from a friend that Portland’s vegan strip club, Casa Diablo, was staging a protest against the meat served at the Acropolis Steakhouse* strip club. Then I saw on the Facebook event page that Casa Diablo were rallying for the OLCC to approve a liquor license for their soon-to-open second location (which happens to… Continue reading A Protest of a Protest: SOS Oregon Takes on Casa Diablo
Quote of the Week
Slavery becomes conflated in evangelical rhetoric with more divisive matters of sexual morality, from pornography and prostitution to abortion. […] In nearly every conversation I have with Christians about sexual slavery, the issue of pornography comes up. They assume that bondage and consenting self-exposure are similarly an affront to what God has in mind for us.… Continue reading Quote of the Week
“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