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
Tag: violence against sex workers
The Week In Links-May 24th
The Gender Commission for Equality’s report last week supporting the decriminalization of prostitution has been covered in a variety of venues, from Sowetan Live to All Africa, SABC News and an editorial in favor of the idea in the Star. South African sex workers welcomed the GCE’s call, with sex worker run orgs SWEAT and Sisonke leading the… Continue reading The Week In Links-May 24th
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 Merseyside Model, Part I: Can Sex Worker Activists Partner with the Police and a Conservative London Politician?
In Merseyside, England, violence against sex workers is treated by the police as a hate crime. This means that when a sex worker is the victim of an assault, robbery, or rape, she or he can report the incident without fear of being charged with prostitution, because the police have agreed to place a higher… Continue reading The Merseyside Model, Part I: Can Sex Worker Activists Partner with the Police and a Conservative London Politician?
The Week In Links–April 19th
Anti-trafficking ideologues are wringing their hands in dismay and blaming the Hawaii police for not being able to find the hordes of sex trafficking victims that surely must be out there somewhere. Yet arrests are turning up no trafficking victims whatsoever. A Pennsylvania cop going undercover accepted a blowjob from a suspected prostitute before arresting… Continue reading The Week In Links–April 19th