prostitution
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Ethical Prostitution
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2 min read
[pexyoutube pex_attr_src=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CH4L_z7Gefo” pex_attr_width=”500″][/pexyoutube] As a follow up to yesterday’s discussion of the decriminalization of sex work, take a look at this video of a sex worker ally drilling down to the issues. While perhaps relying too much on sensational memes based on unreliable data that says most sex workers are sex-trafficked children, she makes a durable case…
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Decriminalizing Sex Work: The Work Ahead
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4 min read
Highly-acclaimed, reader-supported news site, Truthout, has once again zeroed in on a pressing matter of social justice, the continued criminalization of sex workers. Mike Ludwig‘s news analysis, well worth a full read, weaves together several different threads of this issue in terms everyone can understand. Ludwig points our attention to “a great leap forward” in New…
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[pexyoutube pex_attr_src=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjpQCnrbXs8″ pex_attr_width=”500″][/pexyoutube] We’re talking another look at this Sexual Freedom Project video in light of our recent post, “Voluntary sex work is destined to evolve into a legitimate Sexual Healing Industry.” Regardless of what money exchanges whose hands, sex work is a legitimate part of our culture in that it is, with the exception…
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Jamie Raskin, law professor and Maryland State Senator, is trying in vain to explain to the luddites in Congress why free speech shouldn’t cover things like bribery to politicians, recently okayed by the US Supreme Court in several rulings. He wisely invokes prostitution to get their attention, to show the context of free speech, but…
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Violence against D.C. prostitutes has gone too far
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4 min read
Violence against local D.C. prostitutes has become alarming. A local transgender woman, “Jane,” who wishes to remain anonymous, shared her story with me. As she describes it,”I was beat an inch from my life.” She said she was going to work as usual,”clocking in” as it’s called — those few moments that you take…
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The Sexual Freedom Project: Prostitution in a Vacuum
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1 min read
(También en Español) [pexyoutube pex_attr_src=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0SEA9_Ziuw” pex_attr_width=”500″][/pexyoutube] Is it possible for society and government to create a safe field of sex work? Are there too many complications such as child prostitution and human trafficking that make this impossible? Leave a comment and let us know what you think or make your own video or blog to…
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(También en Español) [pexyoutube pex_attr_src=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CH4L_z7Gefo” pex_attr_width=”500″][/pexyoutube] How do you think prostitution can be legalized, protecting the right of individual choice, while at the same eradicating unethical sex slavery and human trafficking? Make a video, write a poem, song, or an essay — or even create an original work of art — and express your thoughts.…
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Tomorrow in DC we will be delivering testimony, reprinted below, in opposition to Bill 19-567, a proposed new law that would allow police to designate permanent Prostitution-Free Zones (PFZs), which have been dubbed by local activists as Trans Profiling Zones. If you cannot attend tomorrow, you can watch online. In any case, in the coming…