Via Amber, today March 3rd is International Sex Workers Rights Day.  SWOP-USA provides some history: The 3rd of March is International Sex Worker Rights Day. The day originated in 2001 when over 25,000 sex workers gathered in India for a sex worker festival. The organizers, Durbar Mahila Samanwaya ...

a few years ago, in some one or other of the various instantiations of some sex war over prostitution, I pointed out at punkass blog that I knew of at least two women who had migrated from a rural area to an urban area and that they did so wanting to be sex workers. This was in the Philippines. A ra...

From Amnesty International UK comes the story of a woman, transgender sex worker and HIV/AIDS campaigner (unnamed for her own safety) in Honduras, who was assaulted by police officers and threatened with death if she spoke out about the attack: Four police officers in a police car approached the tra...

Yesterday, an article from Natalie Dylan — the pseudonym of the women’s study student who is auctioning off her virginity — appeared in The Daily Beast.  She now claims that the auction is more than a way to pay for grad school, as previously reported, but also a sociological expe...

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"Jenny and Susan had been travelling in Australia before taking up residence in Auburn," Detective Inspector Stewart said. "Both women were seeking a better life and this was the only work they could find. "We knew they were sending whatever money they earned back to their families in China. "So far...

Good Information To Have: a video from Red Light Chicago about what exactly happens if you get arrested on a misdemeanor prostitution charge. It's helpful in terms of planning what-if scenarios, and gives specific little details worth knowing. For example, because it's a collect call, you can't call...

From "Las Vegas Weekly," a fun little piece about hedonists who switched from straight careers to making porn movies. ...Soon, the cameras are on, and so is the action. Within seconds, the short-on-stature, long-on-member D. Wise is literally getting down on a pool table with Alexis and Morgan, two ...

After yesterday’s post in the continuing series of posts on the subject of disclosing one’s sexual past to a partner, I got an email from a woman who is a regular reader and a Facebook friend. She writes: My question comes from your “exclusivity” post. I’m wondering, if...