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Making Sex Workers Visible in the Village Voice Ad Controversy

Michelle Chen | Posted 01.18.2012 | Media

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Women, Prostitution, Human Rights, Children, Sex Workers, Labor Rights, Village Voice Media, Sex Offenders, Child Prostitution, Feminism, Village Voice, Human Trafficking, Media News

The perspectives of sex workers are sidelined in the public discourse on sex ads. Of the many politically savvy voices that fill the debate, few belong to the human beings on whose bodies this culture war is being waged.

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The Scholar and the Stripper

Kalia N. Baker | Posted 12.07.2011 | Black Voices

Read More: Black Women, The Help, Sex Workers, Black Strippers, Domestic Workers, Sex Work, Strippers, Black Women Sex Work, Stripper, Black Voices News

Looking around the long cherry wood rectangular tables, I waited anxiously to raise my hand. This particular day in our "Women in Literature" course l...

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'Someone You Know Is A Sex Worker': SF Sex Workers Speak Out

Robin Wilkey | Posted 12.07.2011 | San Francisco

"Sex workers go to work, come home, take care of their children -- just like everybody else," reads the poster on Muni. Below the quote is a portrait ...

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PHOTOS: Sex Workers Rally To Protest Stricter Laws

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 11.22.2011 | World

Read More: South Korea Sex Workers Protest, South Korea Sex Workers, South Korea, Sex Workers, World News

SEOUL, South Korea — Hundreds of South Korean sex workers have rallied to call for the abolishment of laws that toughened the punishment for prostit...

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German Prostitutes Now Being Taxed On A Per-Night Basis

SÜDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG/Worldcrunch | Posted 10.30.2011 | World

Read More: Prostitution, German Prostitutes, Sex Industry, Sex Workers, Germany, Legal Prostitution, World News

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House GOP Revives Global War on Women's Health With "Gag Rule"

Michelle Chen | Posted 10.07.2011 | World

While Congress was playing fiscal roulette last month, House Republicans quietly advanced their attack on reproductive choice, too.

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Is Sex Work Becoming 'No Big Deal'?

Dr. Yvonne K. Fulbright | Posted 09.26.2011 | Women

Read More: Erotic Services, Sex Workers, Paying for College, Online Erotic Services, High End Escort, Prostitues, Sex Work, Sex Worker Stories, Escort Services, Prostition, Prostitute, Women News

Think "sex worker," and "affluent," "educated," and having a "strong family background" and "access to resources" are not the descriptors that come to mind.

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Does Buying Sex Make You a Criminal?

Tom Matlack | Posted 09.24.2011 | Home

Read More: Prostitution Rings, Prostitution, Prostitutes Illegal, Prostituion Criminal, Sex Crimes, Sex Workers, Prostitutes, Home News

This is certainly an important question and one that bears directly on the impact of the accelerating sex trade. But 202 subjects recruited in the local paper by an activist with an ax to grind doesn't seem to be good science.

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Brazilian Minister Calls For Amazon Sex Tour Investigation

AP | JULIANA BARBASSA | Posted 09.10.2011 | World

Read More: Wet-a-Line, Richard Schair, Maria De Rosaria Nunes, Human Rights, Sex Workers, Brazil, Sex Trafficking, Equality Now, Amazon Tourism, Amazon, World News

RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil is investigating allegations that an American fishing tour operator was using expeditions in the Amazon to cover up the ...

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Pimp Turned Politician: Thai Ex-Brothel Owner Seeks Parliament Seat

AP | TODD PITMAN | Posted 08.28.2011 | World

Read More: Brother, Thailand, Thai Pimp, Sex Workers, Thai Politics, Thai Corruption, Chuvit Kamolvisit, Thammasat University, Bangkok, Prostitutes, World News

BANGKOK — As the super-pimp who once ran Thailand's biggest brothel empire and then exposed the police kickbacks he had to pay for it to flouris...

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Behind the Sex Worker

Anna Dirksen | Posted 08.10.2011 | Impact

Read More: TOP Volunteers, Psi, Sex Workers, TOP Project, The Saturday Club AIDS Victims, TOP Program, TOP Clinins, TOP Centers, USAID Sex Workers, TOP Peer Educators, Impact News

Thandar Oo, 33, has entirely changed the landscape for HIV-positive sex workers in Myanmar and has said numerous times that she will continue to help these women until the day she dies.

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Before Olympics, Rio Battles Prostitution

AP | By JULIANA BARBASSA | Posted 08.01.2011 | World

Read More: Brazil Olympic Games, Red Light District, Sex Workers, Olympic Games, Brazil Prostitutes, Brazil 2016 Olympics, Sexual Abuse, Prostitutes, World News

RIO DE JANEIRO -- Cris touches up her lipstick in the bar's dingy mirror, getting ready to work the rush hour in Vila Mimosa, Rio's bustling working-c...

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U.S.: Human Trafficking Fight Needs To Target Corporations

AP | Posted 07.18.2011 | World

Read More: Chris Smith, Sex Workers, Slavery, U.S. Embassy to the Holy See, Vatican, Delta Airlines, Human Trafficking, World News

ROME -- The fight against human trafficking, which for years has focused on rescuing sex slaves and punishing their pimps and smugglers, is now seekin...

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South Korean Sex Workers Rally Against Crackdown

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 07.17.2011 | World

Read More: Prostitution, Red Light District, South Korea, Sex Workers, South Korea Prostitution, World News

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – Hundreds of prostitutes and pimps rallied Tuesday near a red-light district in Seoul to protest a police crackdown on brot...

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France Considers Making Buying Sex Illegal

Posted 06.13.2011 | World

Read More: Prostitution, Sex Workers, France, France Prostitution Laws, Sex Trade, Human Trafficking, World News

In an effort to curb human trafficking, a group of French politicians have recommended criminalizing clients of prostitutes, meaning anyone who pays f...

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Myanmar's Unusual Anti-Prostitution Tactics

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

Read More: Massage Parlors, Naypyitaw, Prostitution, Sex Workers, Yangon, Myanmar, Sex Trade, China, World News

YANGON, Myanmar -- Authorities in Myanmar have announced a ban on massage parlors and restrictions on restaurants and karaoke lounges in the country's...

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Honoring the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers

Chi Mgbako | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Prostitution, Women's Rights, Women, Sex Trafficking, Human Rights, Sex Workers, Feminism, World News, Politics News

Amid the lit candles and the haunting reading of names, I will attend a vigil to commemorate sex workers who have been assaulted, battered, and murdered, who we have chosen to criminalize instead of protect.

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Sex Workers (Try to) Enter the Human Rights Arena

Michelle Chen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Women's Rights, Women, Prostitution, Labor, Human Rights, Sex Workers, Sex, United Nations, Feminism, Legalization, Politics News

How does the sale of the most intimate of human transactions fit with the regime of universal human rights?

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Prostitution "Experts" Versus Prostitutes: Why Don't All Sex Workers Deserve a Voice?

Monica Shores | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Prostitution, Activism, Sex Workers, Politics News

Why would these women be so threatened by sex workers organizing for themselves, gaining national attention, and working to influence public perception?

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New York Teacher Punished for Sex Work Past

Monica Shores | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York

Read More: Melissa Petro, Teachers, Sex Work, Sex Workers, Eliot Spitzer, New York, Craigslist, Vitt, New York News

There's tremendous disingenuousness at work in the campaign against elementary school teacher Melissa Petro, who's been suspended by Mayor Bloomberg himself after her sex working past gained national attention. What exactly does Petro's removal teach children?

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Canada Decriminaiizes Pimping. Solicting, Running Brothels

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

Read More: Prostitution, Toronto, Sex Workers, Ontario, Canada Prostitution Laws, Brothels, Canada, Sex Trade, World News

TORONTO — Canada's justice minister says the federal government will appeal an Ontario court ruling that struck down key provisions in Canada's ...

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Thoughts From a Former Craigslist Sex Worker

Melissa Petro | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology

Read More: Sex Workers, Craigslist Erotic Services, Craigslist Prostitution, Craigslist, The Craigslist Killer, Technology News

For all the "victims" of the "adult services" section of Craigslist, there are a number of individuals like myself -- free-thinking human beings -- who are are being stifled by our so-called advocates.

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'Trafficking Victims' Rescued In Brothel Raids In Belfast

BBC News | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

Read More: Northern Ireland, Belfast Brothels, Sex Workers, Belfast, Human Trafficking, Brothels, Prostitutes, World News

Police have said a number of "potential victims of human trafficking" have been rescued in raids on suspected brothels in Belfast. ...

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A Victory for Survivors of Trafficking in New York State

Sienna Baskin | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York

Read More: Prostitution, Sex Trafficking, David Paterson, Sex Workers, Criminal Records, Safe Harbor Act, New York News

August 13 marked a victory for survivors of commercial sex trafficking, when New York's Governor David Paterson signed a bill allowing them to clear their records of prostitution-related crimes

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