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Support Our Blog, Or Sex, or Both, Really!The other day I posted a story about German brothels advertising special prices for green and unemployed clients. Now here’s another in which ‘free’ prostitutes are thought to be ‘exploited’ by a politician who doesn’t believe they can be consenting to a marketing strategy. The impulse to save sex workers from themselves goes on. German prostitutes defend [...]
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Photo by Sinead McCarthy, design by Sinclair Sexsmith Best-selling author David Henry Sterry and sexuality rights activist Audacia Ray, both former workers in the sex industry, are proud to announce Sex Worker Literati, a new free monthly reading series that features sex workers, former sex workers, and people with stories about the sex industry who [...]
Filed under: Audacia Ray, Events, Sex Worker Bloggers, Sex Worker Rights | 1 Comment »
From our friends at Witness: WITNESS and partner organization, HOPS, will be screening their new documentary on sex workers’ rights in Macedonia, on July 23 at Bluestockings Bookstore. Following the screening, WITNESS partner representative, Marija Tosheva will take part in a discussion on the role of the film in advocating for more just treatment for [...]
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A bunch of us went to the screening of the new Xaviera Hollander documentary here in Chicago a few days ago and were impressed with the film. It’s very positive portrayal and deserves to be seen by a wider audience, but the film lacks distribution at this point. It’s been shown at festivals around the [...]
Filed under: Announcements, Sex Worker Rights, Video, Wisdom of Whores | Tagged: documentaries, happy hooker, xaviera hollander | 2 Comments »
Robert Arthur, author of the cartoon and blog post sent me the link and asked me to post it here. He examines how criminalizing prostitution does not protect the worker in any way, inspired by the reactions because Markoff found his victim through CraigsList.
Filed under: Allies, Art, Harassment of Sex Workers, Human Rights, Injustice, Law Enforcement, Politics, Violence | 10 Comments »
Very interesting, and decidedly unfeminist. And criminal!!
Filed under: Activism, Feminism, Harassment of Sex Workers, Human Rights, Injustice, International, Labor, Legal, Media, Morality, Politics, Prohibition, Sex Worker Rights, Sweden, trafficking, Video | 5 Comments »
Men for men Men for women
Filed under: Art, Labor, Male Sex Workers, Media, The Biz, Video | 34 Comments »
