Political Lobbying by Citizens Against Trafficking

Citizens Against Trafficking is giving political advice to Rhode Island residents on which politicians to vote for.  Of course, politicians who supported their poisonous and totally harmful legislation that ended decriminalization of prostitution in Rhode Island.   Below is an excerpt from the Citizens Against Trafficking website Citizens Against Trafficking encourages constituents to vote for [...]

Child Sex Trafficking Victim in Prison

This has recently come to my attention. A child prostitute (i.e. sex trafficking victim) killed her pimp when she was 16. She was sentenced to life in prison for killing her exploiter. She’s now 31. Has anyone heard of this case before? A website about Sara Kruzan: http://www.freesarakruzan.org/

So where is the answer anti trafficking gurus?

So after my recent violent rape by a trick I wrote to the anti trafficking gurus, Farley, Hughes, and Hughes minion Melanie Shapiro.  They were so convinced criminalizing indoor prostitution in Rhode Island would stop this kind of activity.  Well, gurus of anti trafficking.  I live in North Carolina where it has always been criminalized. [...]

Bad Rehab- APNSW Karaoke

This is a brilliant new video from Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers: http://blip.tv/file/4138226 Click to play

A simple petition, plese sign and pass around

Dear Friends, Our friend and ally in San Francisco, Hillary McQuie, harm reduction advocate, made this petition to support sex workers rights efforts and to address the scapegoating of craigslist. I hope you can sign it and pass it around. http://humantrafficking.change.org/petitions/view/end_human_trafficking-_support_sexworker_self-efficacy_2?share_source=invite-page_em&ue=sei

Change.org Petition Supporting Sex Workers

Here is a link to a change.org petition supportive of sex workers, and addressing the CL issue as well as sex workers being able to advertise: http://humantrafficking.change.org/petitions/view/end_human_trafficking-_support_sexworker_self-efficacy_2

Adult Services Gone

Craigslist confirmed in the hearing before Congress that it had removed the Adult Services section permanently from US CL (and assuming Adult Gigs will stay down too). Nothing was said about the international Erotic Services section. Two articles: briefly on CNET slightly longer article There are other articles but none that I’ve found have looked [...]

Sex Workers Stop Traffick

Photo by Xtalk in April 2009 in cooperation with ECP and Sex worker Open University- London

change.org petition for a verified adult industry provider section

change.org is mobilizing 2 petitions: one to stop CL’s erotic svcs sec WORLDWIDE and one to go after Backpage.com ( take action by telling Village Voice Media it’s time to stop profiting from child sex trafficking now).  I CREATED THE PETITION AND IT IS LIVE! please VOTE, TWEET, FACEBOOK! www.change.org/petitions/view/demand_a_verified_adult_provider_section_to_stop_sex_trafficking_and_exploitation?te=npe ARE YOU REALLY INTERESTED IN [...]

In response to the offline question about using Craigslist for work

I used Craigslist for maybe 2 weeks.  The experience was vapid.  Cheap clients who seemed to have no idea of how things worked, many new clients who “just had questions”.  Which totally pissed me off.  ”I’m just browsing” works in retail stores, not when calling escorts.  While I fully endorse Craigslist re-opening the adult section. [...]

For the General Public: When does sex work become rape?

This post is intended far more for the general public than for those who usually read it.  It is not a post seeking sympathy.  I”m using personal experience to illustrate a point. Recently I went to work for an outcall escort agency.  The agency does the screening of the clients with the idea being a [...]

Looking at the Schapiro Group “Scientific” Survey

This survey was done in the fall of 2009, several months after CraigsList changed the Erotic Services section to Adult Services so that it could begin charging for ads and handing over the information to authorities if requested. Remember, this was in response to a huge national campaign accusing CraigsList of being a haven for [...]

Today (September 10th) is Suicide Prevention Day.

My first friend that committed suicide was when I was in my early teens. He was an amazing person, and at the time I knew nothing of suicide prevention, I didn’t know how rough of a time he was going through; he was a few years older than I was, and he had family issues [...]

Traffickers Remain in Business

Dear State Attorney Generals and colleagues such as Melissa Farley, Donna M. Hughes, While you run around patting yourselves on the back for shutting down the so called “Wal Mart of Human Trafficking” you may want to ponder the harm you have done.  Just how stupid do you figure traffickers are?  Closing one website is [...]

CraigsList: Future Thinking

Assuming that CraigsList Adult Services stay down, where will everyone go? Granted, the majority of those in the business in the US aren’t advertising on CL anymore. But now civilians are enjoying the thrill of discovering what’s been online for the past 10-15 years and are publicly speculating what sites advertisers will flock to. On [...]