Like the case of the Virginia candidate who was discovered to also be a sex worker, I really don't care what people do sexually. I mean this in the most literal way--I don't want to talk about it much either way and my interest in...
sex work
LGBTQ, immigrant rights and criminal justice reform groups, launched a coalition, Decrim NY, in February to decriminalize the sex trade in New York. There's a bill in the New York.
For the latest LGM podcast, I had the honor of speaking to Karma Chávez, department chair of the Department of Mexican American and Latino/a Studies at the University of Texas-Austin.
The issue of sex work is complicated one, but the absolute principle needs to be that sex workers have rights and those rights need to be respected. But if your work is criminalized, you have no rights at all. And that means workers die. Few...
Of course! Three women arrested last year as part of a high-profile "human trafficking" sting in Florida were sentenced recently as part of plea agreements with Palm Beach County prosecutors..
Fascinating and excellent essay about Ah Toy, the Chinese brothel madam in Gold Rush San Francisco, and the anti-Asian racism that impacted her long life in California. An excerpt: In.
On March 21, 1866, California passed An Act for the Suppression of Chinese Houses of Ill Fame, an anti-prostitution measure that stood in for a larger anti-Chinese sentiment in that state that would lead to the Chinese Exclusion Act sixteen years later and was part...
It's not often that I agree with a conservative like S.E. Cupp, but her argument for legalizing sex work in the wake of the New York prostitute jumping to her.
On June 23, 1855, a 19 year old slave woman named Celia murdered her master rather than allow him to rape her. She then attempted to burn his body, nearly.
It seems that Nic Kristof was more than a dupe of Somaly Mam's lies. Sounds like he was complicit to a significant degree: Many of her accolades, in turn, can be traced back to her friendship with New York Times columnist Nick Kristof. As of...
Huh, it's almost like criminalizing sex work just drives it underground instead of gets rid of it. Who knew.
Simon Marks has a long expose demonstrating that Cambodian anti-sex trafficking activist Somaly Mam lied about her own life story and trained children to make up stories about their supposed.