06:12 PM EDT on Friday, September 18, 2009
By Lynn Arditi
Journal Staff Writer
PROVIDENCE — Raising money for charity can be tough, but Rhode Island police organizations have found one business that’s always willing to contribute.
Asian massage parlors or “spas” in Providence which police and local watch-dog groups maintain are often fronts for brothels, have [...]
September 30, 2009
Categories: "Dirty Whores", Discrimination and harrassment, Economics, Hypocrisy, Massage, National, Police, Political Scandals, Shaming and Stigma, Whore Stigma, Zealotry . . Author: swoplv . Comments: Leave a Comment
September 28, 2009 1:30 PM
Editors’ Note: Guest bloggers Andrea Ritchie and Jarad Ringer are two of New York City’s foremost experts on violence against sex workers. Ms. Ritchie is the Director of the Sex Workers Project at Urban Justice Center. Mr. Ringer is the Coordinator of the Hate Violence and Police Relations Program at the [...]
September 28, 2009
Categories: Activism, Arrests and Persecution, Consenting Adults, Craigslist, Deaths, Discrimination and harrassment, Editorials, GLBTQ, Idiot Authorities, Ignorance, Internet, LGBTQ, Labor, MSM, Male Sex Work, National, Online escorting, Police, Prohibitionism . . Author: swoplv . Comments: Leave a Comment
While sex-trafficking cases grab headlines, there’s a growing problem of people being forced to work as “modern-day slaves.”
By DAVID CHANEN, Star Tribune. Last update: September 25, 2009 – 11:57 PM
They are sometimes called “modern-day slaves” — illegal immigrants working for low pay with the threat of deportation to keep them from complaining to authorities. Police [...]
September 26, 2009
Categories: Fraud and Coercion, Labor, Migration/Travel, National, Trafficking . . Author: swoplv . Comments: Leave a Comment
David Orr- Nairobi
Thursday, 23 January 1997
Monica Marwa is a 25-year-old prostitute living in the notorious Majengo slum on the outskirts of the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. She charges between 30 and 50 Kenyan shillings (between 33 and 55 pence) for sex. There is nothing extraordinary about her line of work nor about her fees – it [...]
September 26, 2009
Categories: Academic, Africa, HIV/AIDS, Health, International, Research, STIs, Safer sex, Street-based work . . Author: swoplv . Comments: Leave a Comment
By Jeff Knebel.
Published Jun 8, 2009
Inquiries began pouring in at the Shady Lady Ranch just days after owner Bobbi Davis publicized her plans to erect the new services she hopes will arouse new clientele and help to stimulate the limp industry.
As of Saturday, more than 60 candidates had responded to the Nevada brothel’s [...]
September 23, 2009
Categories: Brothels, Clients, Heidi Fleiss, Labor, Male Sex Work, National, Nevada, Older Stories, Policy, The Art of the Business, Unfair Policy . . Author: swoplv . Comments: Leave a Comment
City officials cite zoning violation
Updated: Tuesday, 22 Sep 2009, 9:59 PM EDT
Published : Tuesday, 22 Sep 2009, 9:59 PM EDT
Dan Gouthro
PAWTUCKET, R.I. (WPRI) – The city of Pawtucket has banned a new adult business from opening inside the Grant Building on Main Street.
Megan Andelloux planned to open the Center for Sexual Pleasure on Saturday. She [...]
September 23, 2009
Categories: Idiot Authorities, Ignorance, National, Sex Education, Whore Stigma, Zealotry . . Author: swoplv . Comments: Leave a Comment
By Noy Thrupkaew
This article appeared in the October 5, 2009 edition of The Nation.
September 16, 2009
This article is the first part of a two-part series. The next installment will explore alternative approaches to addressing the problem of trafficking for the purposes of forced prostitution.
–The Editors
Gary Haugen is cradling the padlocks in his thick hands. A [...]
September 22, 2009
Categories: Brothels, Conflation of trafficking and prostitution, Faith-based orgs, HIV/AIDS, Human Rights, International, Labor, Migration/Travel, Philosophy and Discourse, Police, Police Abuse of Sex Workers, Policy, Prohibitionism, Prostitutes as "Victims", Raids/Rescues, Rescue Industry, Southeast Asia, TVPRA, Trafficking, UN, US Anti-trafficking policy and TIPs Report, Underage Prostitution, Violence Against Sex Workers . . Author: swoplv . Comments: 1 Comment
Advocates target customers, seek help for women
By Erika Slife, Tribune reporter
September 17, 2009
They can be lawyers, doctors, CEOs and even police officers. They’re often somebody’s husband, boyfriend or father.
But the public may know them better as johns. And far too often, former prostitutes and their advocates say, they’re getting away with their crimes.
“I went to [...]
September 22, 2009
Categories: Clients, Conflation of trafficking and prostitution, Consenting Adults, End Demand, Ignorance, Labor, National, Policy, Prohibitionism, Prostitutes as "Victims", Swedish Model . . Author: swoplv . Comments: Leave a Comment
Patrons are now required to supply ID that matches their ‘gender presentation’
Brian Cox and Lisa Black
September 21, 2009
An Elk Grove Village gay bar popular with cross-dressers now requires them to show a valid photo ID that matches their “gender presentation.” Put another way, they now need a photo ID that shows them in drag.
Hunters Nightclub [...]
September 22, 2009
Categories: "Dirty Whores", ACLU, Craigslist, Discrimination and harrassment, GLBTQ, Human Rights, LGBTQ, National, Neighbors Issues, Personal stories, Sexual rights . . Author: swoplv . Comments: Leave a Comment
Published on 20 Sep 2009
Plans are afoot to make it a crime to buy sex in Scotland. Is this the way forward? Ahead of a major debate on the proposal, we present five spirited arguments
The feminist campaigner
By Julie bindel
The laws on prostitution are not working. Currently, women are criminalised, making it more difficult to leave [...]
September 21, 2009
Categories: Clients, End Demand, Labor, Legalize Decriminalize Prohibit, Philosophy and Discourse, Policy, Swedish Model, UK . . Author: swoplv . Comments: Leave a Comment
