Trafficking Numerology

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers. -  Plato The Western mind adores numbers; it finds them impressive and magical, and the less an individual understands about math the more numbers impress him (especially if they’re large numbers).  The quickest way to win the typical modern dullard’s respect is to throw [...]

Rescue Industry, this is how you “rescue” 13 year old runaways?

The rescue industry has an actual case of a 13 year old, what they call the average age of entry into prostitution, that they have “rescued” from a pimp.  As part of her “rescue” they bring her into court shackled at both the wrists and ankles.  Because a 13 year old female prisoner is such [...]

Dutch government wants their cut from sex workers

From the Huffington Post: Nobody knows exactly how many prostitutes there are or how many of them pay tax, since legal ones are registered as one-women businesses, not brothels. But an Amsterdam-chartered study in October estimated there are slightly fewer than 8,000 prostitutes of all kinds in the city, and 3,000 working behind windows. An [...]

Sex Workers WANT to Stop Traffficking

UN goodwill ambassador on trafficking not ambassadorial

David Henry Sterry has interviewed me about my run-in with Mira Sorvino in Egypt in the Huffington Post – aimed at US audiences. Trafficking campaigners publish continuously in the HP, so this is a small good thing. A Conversation With the Naked Anthropologist About Sex Trafficking No one seems to oversee the behaviour of these [...]