Loved Ones Fear Truck Driver May Be Linked To California Missing

CUE Center For Missing Persons PO Box 12714 Wilmington, NC 28405 Contact: Monica Caison (910) 343-1131 (910) 232-1687 cuecenter@aol.com www.ncmissingpersons.org For immediate release: April 23, 2009 Note left behind reveals that a body can be found on the “15” Wilmington, NC: April Pitzer vanished on June 28, 2004 and despite multiple searchers, public awareness campaigns, [...]

2009 San Francisco Sex Worker Film, Art, and Music Festival: May 30-June 7

 http://www.sexworke rfest.com/ swfest2009/ Release2009. html 6th San Francisco Sex Worker Film, Art and Music Festival   Festival dates: May 30th to June 7th, 2009 Website: http://www.sexworkerfest.com/ Tel: 415-751-1659 Email: swfest@bayswan.org Schedule Updates: http://www.sexworkerfest.com/schedule2009.html   We are very excited to announce the 2009 San Francisco Sex Worker Film, Arts and Music Festival. This is the 10th [...]

Reflecting on New Zealand’s Prostitution Reform Act

Many in the sexworker community hold up New Zealand’s legislation as the best and therefore the one everyone should adopt. The Prostitution Reform Act of 2003 has many strengths, not least that the New Zealand Prostitutes Collective played an important part in its formulation. The Act does have weaknesses, however, so it seems good for [...]

Suspect Detained in Murder of Masseuse Advertising on Craig’s List

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090421/ap_on_re_us/us_craigslist_killing

RI cops: Case similar to Boston Craigslist slaying

WARWICK, R.I. (AP) — An attempted robbery of a woman at a suburban Providence hotel may be linked to the slaying at an upscale Boston hotel of a woman who advertised massage services on Craigslist, police said Friday. A 26-year-old woman who also advertised massage services on Craigslist was bound with cord and held at [...]

Posting Petitions on “Bound Not Gagged”

Change.org posts petitions online that people can sign onto electronically, and it would be great if we could also do this on “Bound Not Gagged.”  We could post petitions to decriminalize prostitution, to support or oppose specific pieces of legislation, and related to additional issues we’re concerned about.  Here is a link to what I’m [...]

Nevada’s Failed $5 Tax on Prostitution

As the sex industry in Nevada, as elsewhere, is thriving amid the financial crisis, state senator Bob Coffin proposed a $5 tax on all acts of prostitution in the state’s legal brothels. In an article published online for the UK’s Guardian, Melissa Ditmore tackles the failed taxation scheme, and points out the fact that people [...]

Some Links On Boston Murder

Pattern Emerges in Hotel Attacks And as authorities launched a hunt for the man – also captured on surveillance cameras last week at the Westin Copley Hotel, where a 29-year-old Las Vegas woman was bound and robbed at gunpoint – the killing this week opened a window on a vast and elusive underworld of prostitutes [...]

Urgent: Masseuse Advertising on Craig’s List Murdered

This is extremely important to know about, especially for sex workers traveling to Boston to meet clients.  This murder is possibly linked to another attempted armed robbery in a Boston hotel room:  http://www1. whdh.com/ news/articles/ local/BO110496/ .   Please circulate widely.

Sex 2.0 May 9th, 2009 Washington DC

The 2nd Annual Sex 2.0 un-conference is just a few weeks away! Early-bird registration closes on April 16th. This year is the second year that Bound, Not Gagged is participating as a Community Sponsor. New social media has been a critical tool for sex workers around the globe in recent years. Not only has the [...]

Study: Children Exposed To Pornography May Expect Sex To Be Enjoyable

Study: Children Exposed To Pornography May Expect Sex To Be Enjoyable Posted on behalf of Maxine Doogan

Bound, Not Gagged Happy Hour May 7th, 2009!

The Desiree Alliance is pleased to invite you to attend a happy hour to support our web blog project, BoundNotGagged.com BoundnotGagged.com is a place for sex workers to respond to the way that we’re portrayed in the media and the way that sexist laws are used to undermine our rights. BoundnotGagged.com is our way of [...]

Muff Muff Give – a $pread Benefit Party

Dear $pread Fans, Friends, and Contributors, I will be guest hosting a really fun queer night in NYC on Thursday, April 16th, that will double as a $pread benefit party! Expect raunch, kink, hot queers, burlesque, and excellent DJs. It’s recession priced and more debauchery than you can count on one black dragon gloved hand. [...]

May 8th: Video Advocacy Training for Sex Worker Organizing & Advocacy

Via The Sex Workers Empowerment Project — a video advocacy training in partnership with WITNESS,  for sex worker rights’ advocates will be held on May 8th in New York City. (video from WITNESS training with sex worker advocates in Macedonia) The Sex Workers Empowerment Project (SWEP) and $pread Magazine are working with WITNESS to put [...]