December 26, 2008
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PHNOM PENH (AFP) — Chantha said there was nothing else she could do in Cambodia but become a prostitute.
“If you don’t even have a dollar in your pocket to buy rice, how can you bear looking at your starving relatives?” she said.
“You do whatever to survive, until you start to realize the consequence [...]
December 26, 2008
Categories: "Dirty Whores", Activism, Arrests and Persecution, Conflation of trafficking and prostitution, Human Rights, International, Labor, Laws, Legalize Decriminalize Prohibit, Organizing, Philosophy and Discourse, Police, Police Abuse of Sex Workers, Policy, Prohibitionism, Prostitutes as "Victims", Raids/Crackdowns, Southeast Asia, Trafficking, US Anti-trafficking policy and TIPs Report, Violence Against Sex Workers, Zealotry . . Author: swoplv . Comments: Leave a Comment
My Messy Bedroom
Virginity goes on sale and clitoris becomes ungoogleable in Josey’s roundup of the year in sex
Published December 24, 2008
by Josey Vogels in My Messy Bedroom
It was quite a year for sex. Extramarital affairs thrived online while the clitoris vanished. We lost Bettie Page and Playgirl and gay marriage got left at the [...]
December 24, 2008
Categories: Art, Celebrity Stuff, Sex, virginity . . Author: swoplv . Comments: 1 Comment
The Scarlet Alliance and CAAH have begun working together in the fight against violence against GLBT people and sex workers.
Last week the two groups held a rally on International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers, which included a march through Kings Cross.
“Today is the day sex workers across the world take a stand for [...]
December 24, 2008
Categories: Activism, Arrests and Persecution, Australia and New Zealand, Human Rights, International, Labor, Organizing, Sexual rights, Violence Against Sex Workers . . Author: swoplv . Comments: Leave a Comment
Randy roundup 2008
From Love Bites, EYE Weekly
BY Sasha December 23, 2008 21:12
“I love to play strippers and to imitate them,” says America’s newly crowned sweetheart Tina Fey in the latest issue of Vanity Fair. “I love using that idea for comedy, but the idea of actually going there? I feel like we all need [...]
December 23, 2008
Categories: Uncategorized . . Author: swoplv . Comments: Leave a Comment
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
By: Jonathan Miller
In brief
Taking a stand against social stigmas, the Sex Workers Outreach Project, an activist group for workers in the sex industry, staged a protest Dec. 17 in Washington, D.C., for recognition of their legal rights by police.
Sex workers not only face the risk of contracting disease, but also must [...]
December 23, 2008
Categories: Activism, December 17th, Human Rights, Labor, National, Organizing, Sexual rights, outreach . . Author: swoplv . Comments: Leave a Comment
By Tom Bishop
BBC News
Most of us look forward to a rest over Christmas but thousands of Londoners will work during the holiday season – including many of the city’s sex workers.
In 2008 the sex worker has been portrayed as the exploited victim of trafficking and as the high class escort Belle de Jour, played by [...]
December 22, 2008
Categories: Brothels, December 17th, Economics, International, Labor, Laws, Legalize Decriminalize Prohibit, Male Sex Work, Massage, Online escorting, Personal stories, Street-based work, The Art of the Business, The Life, UK . . Author: swoplv . Comments: Leave a Comment
Alternatives For Girls (AFG) reports that 100% of the girls and women in the sex industry who access AFG’s exiting services are victims of violence. Recently the world acknowledged the “International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers”, but every day of the year, AFG works to support women as they stand up against relationship [...]
December 22, 2008
Categories: Exit programs, Harm/Risk Reduction, National, outreach . . Author: swoplv . Comments: Leave a Comment
December 22, 2008
Ade Mardiyati
On a dreary morning in Yogyakarta, in a brick house, some 10 meters from the main road in Gedong Tengen, Notoyudan hamlet, an 8-year-old girl is folding yellow paper napkins with a friend. They work slowly, whispering comments about boys and giggling as they form perfect little paper triangles.
“Mom, [...]
December 22, 2008
Categories: Activism, Faith-based orgs, GLBTQ, Human Rights, International, LGBTQ, Personal stories, Philosophy and Discourse, Religion and Sex Work, Southeast Asia, outreach . . Author: swoplv . Comments: Leave a Comment
by Azadeh Azad
22-Dec-2008
The sex trade is a growing industry in Iran, especially in Greater Tehran. Yet, there is not much field research being carried out on this subject. The reason is twofold. First, the official discourse of the Islamic State in Iran continues to deny the existence of the sex trade in the country, which [...]
December 22, 2008
Categories: Academic, Economics, International, Labor, Middle East, Publications, Religion and Sex Work, Research . . Author: swoplv . Comments: 1 Comment
Women ranging from 20 to 49 in age were all booked on same day.
By Shoshana Walter
THE LEDGER
Published: Saturday, December 20, 2008 at 10:50 p.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, December 20, 2008 at 10:54 p.m.
LAKELAND | An undercover operation resulted in the arrests last week of nine women on prostitution-related charges.
A Lakeland police officer posed as a John, [...]
December 20, 2008
Categories: "Dirty Whores", "Prostitution Rings", Arrests and Persecution, National, Police, Raids/Crackdowns, Stings, Street-based work . . Author: swoplv . Comments: Leave a Comment