I wanted to post a reply to the thread but for some reason I’m not getting an option to do that. So. I’m starting a new thread. Geniuses that endorse this policy……… I...
Julie Turkewitz is a New York-based freelance journalist. She spent two years writing about AIDS and homelessness for Housing Works. Her work has appeared in The Baltimore Sun, The Atlanta Journal-Co...
The prostitute is the scapegoat for everyone’s sins, and few people care whether she is justly treated or not. Good people have spent thousands of pounds in efforts to reform her, poets have written...
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them. - P.J. O’Rourke Today is the third Friday the Thirteenth since I’ve been writing The Honest Court...
Thank you to the NC Harm Reduction Coalition and many others for making this happen. Sex Workers Without Borders is thrilled to be part of this important event in the Triangle. International Day to E...
I am keeping up with the tendency to change language again, so that what people were calling prostitution and then trafficking now becomes, increasingly, slavery. The other day I critiqued a review o...
This annual event is coming up again, with activities in various parts of the U.S. along with Capetown, South Africa; London, England; Montreal, Quebec Canada; and Phnom Penh, Cambodia: http://www.fa...
Since the abolitionists feel eliminating advertising venues is the only way to prevent a tiny percentage of crime. Why are they not calling for Craigslist to ban all help wanted advertising to avoid ...
Did anybody see the segment on the Dr. Oz show about child sex trafficking? If so, what did you think? Here’s a link to the segment: http://www.doctoroz.c om/videos/lisa-ling-sex-traffi cking-ame...
The coming November 16, 2011 protest against Backpage by CATW, NOW-NYC and Prostitution Research and Education is another example of harmful actions and campaigns by elitist feminist academics agains...
The Society for the Study of Social Problems accepted a resolution supporting the decriminalization of prostitution written by Jenny Heineman, co-coordinator of the Sex Workers’ Outeach Project...
For more on this case, please visit- http://www.chicagotribune.com/ news/local/breaking/chi-bail-s et-at-1m-in-slaying-of-woman-i n-chicago-hotel-20111014,0,798 2823.story FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Friday,...
I’m not sure how much good online petitions do, but here’s one to the president for the decriminalization of prostitution. Since that issue is handled state by state I don’t think the president can ...
Dr. Callum Bennachie, from the New Zealand Prostitutes Collective, filed a complaint with the American Psychology Association asking that they rescind the membership of Melissa Farley. In the introdu...
Dear BnG community. These raids have hit us hard in Arizona, and we are devastated for the loss of the Temples. Please stay with us as we will be putting out much more information, calls to action,...
Veteran sex worker rights activist Norma Jean Almodovar has written a passionate essay on the hypocrisy of the stance taken by 45 state attorneys general in demanding that Backpage discontinue all ad...
Two Goddess temples were raided in Arizona, and some people were arrested on prostitution charges. More arrests may be coming: http://veganvixen1.wor dpress.com/2011/09/10/phoenix- goddess-temple-raide...
I’m surprised this hasn’t been brought up on BNG yet, but many of you may be aware of the Newsweek article Titled “The John Next Door” bashing our clients and focused on Melis...
I created a blog at http://veganvixen1.wordpress.c om/ and am wondering how to add a list of links to other sex worker blogs, like BNG does of the left column. I’d like to include BNG in the list of ...
Excerpt from “Seeking Arrangement: College Students Using ‘Sugar Daddies’ To Pay Off Loan Debt” by Amanda Fairbanks “When people think about sex work, they think of a po...
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This is a post from Cyd Nova over at Pretty Queer I am finding my ideals located in awkward places during this odd, Saturn’s Return-esque moment of my life. Specifically, I’m finding myself doing act...
Thanks to the tireless efforts of Women With a Vision (WWAV), on Tuesday, June 28, the Louisiana Governor signed into law a bill that will at long last equalize penalties for people charged under the...
Late Tuesday evening ( June 28th) a story entitled “Real Men Get Their Facts Straight” by Martin Cizmar, Ellis Conklin and Kristen Hinman, appeared on the Village Voice media website; it uses the wid...
Join us for the Second Annual Sex Worker Cabaret on Sunday, June 12, 2011! >>> Buy Tickets Now! Sex workers take the stage to tell their diverse stories through performance, narrative, puppe...
Many of us are well aware of how anti-prostitution laws promote and encourage real vice sting operations against sex workers, but there seems to be much less focus on how these same anti-prostitution...
NEW ORLEANS — In their neighborhoods, they are sometimes taunted with dirty looks and jeers. Their pictures hang on the walls of local community centers where their children and grandchildren p...
Women’s groups have been in a state of hysteria lately over Republican efforts to restrict abortion rights, but they’ve been curiously silent about the efforts from BOTH sides of the aisl...
Opponents of the sex workers’ justice movement have sometimes used the topic of privilege to discredit our movement, saying that we represent the most prestigious side of sex work and are thus ...
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