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This is a collaborative press release – please distribute and repost widely!

Contact:
Dylan Wolfe – Sex Workers Action New York (SWANK), swank@riseup.net
Will Rockwell – $pread Magazine, will@spreadmagazine.org
Audacia Ray – Sex Work Awareness (SWA), aray@sexworkawareness.org
Susan Blake – Prostitutes of New York (PONY), pony@panix.com
Michael Bottoms – Sex Workers Outreach Project – New York City (SWOP-NYC), info@swop-nyc.org

With Craigslist’s recent announcement that its Erotic Services category will be discontinued within the week, hundreds of thousands of erotic service providers will become more vulnerable to dangerous predators. Eliminating erotic listings as Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal and others propose will only drive us further underground.

Policing the masseuses, phone workers, pro-dominants, and escorts using Craigslist fails to protect those of us who are coerced into the sex industry. Preventing the use of Craigslist advertisements also eliminates the advantage of screening clients online, which makes for a safer work experience by filtering out potentially dangerous individuals. Furthermore, keeping us offline hinders police investigations of violent crime. In the Boston murder of Julissa Brisman, it was online tracking that enabled the police to identify the suspect. One has to wonder: are the Attorneys General examining the evidence or simply enforcing their moral values?

“Removing the erotic services category from Craigslist does not help prevent violence against escorts and other sex workers. It only pushes me and people like me out of the places where advertising is available,” said Jessica Bloom, a sex worker from Sex Workers Action New York (SWANK). In the face of increasing criminalization, we insist upon respect. As mothers, daughters, brothers, and members of your community, we claim that sex work is real work, work that we are entitled to conduct in safety. As such, we must be accorded the human right of full protection under the law.

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**EDIT** an addendum. I just typed this up in response to a Facebook friend asking what he could do to help. Here are some suggestions:

You can totally help, mostly by speaking up and jumping into the fray!

Legislation about consensual adult sex work (not trafficking, coercion, or child prostitution) mostly happens on the state level – since you’re in NY, you can find your assembly person here: http://assembly.state.ny.us/mem/ – write to him or her and tell them how you feel about the risks created and perpetuated by continued criminalizing of sex work and cracking down on advertising

Write letters to the editor of newspapers that publish misguided pieces about how the elimination of craigslist erotic services will “help” women

Comment on blog posts and online articles (if you’ve got the stomach for it!)

And check out the very excellent and thorough reports on research done by the Sex Workers Project to arm yourself with statistics

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In case you haven’t noticed, the stock market took a nosedive this week. The rest of us are left worried about investments, bank stability, and mortgages. But what about the men of Wall Street, who are getting screwed over by their employers: How are they looking to handle this mess? They’re looking to get screwed on Craigslist. Instead of looking for their next jobs, they’re trolling for the hand and blow kind of jobs online. Who can blame them? Life’s too short not to take a half-naked photo of yourself and boast about your Ivy league education on a free internet message board.

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. . .Case in point: you are chatting with a woman you’re interested in and she lets you chat with her friend, these ladies obviously dig each other and threesomes, you request a picture of the friend, upon seeing how blazingly hot the friend is, DO NOT email her your picture accompanied by the very same email you sent the first woman. This is tacky and bad form. You never make any move towards the second woman without clearing it with the first. How difficult is it to say, “Hey Tess, do you mind if I send your friend my photo and standardized come on email?” Chances are I won’t give a fuck but when you take it upon yourself to make that move you just reinforce what a fuckwit you are. Dick heads, women talk, and we like each other way more than we like you, so this genius move is bound to backfire. Further when talking about one of the women’s writing, which includes bondage, rape, knives and razors, describing it as “quite nice” rather than “fucking hot” or even “frightening” is also bizarre.

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It takes a woman about a thousand words and a condom to get laid on Craigslist. But for a woman to be laid properly — by a passionate lover who knows what he’s doing — well, that’s a whole different ball game.

We are both middle-aged women who have spent the past 11 months sleeping around Craigslist. At an age when most women were sending their firstborns off to college, we found ourselves — through chance and circumstance — single, tumescent and ripe for adventures. Those adventures have spanned 10 counties and four states and involved roughly 45,000 e-mailed words, 27 phone calls, 36 face-to-face initial dates and 13 actual lovers — and re-aggravated our carpal tunnel syndrome from all the typing.

. . .The two of us met when Anna answered an ad that Lily’s then-boyfriend, Scott, posted on Craigslist. Lily and Scott were seeking a third partner to join a menage a trois. Before anybody actually met face to face, Lily dumped Scott and canceled the threesome, but she became e-mail pals with her would-have-been sex partner, Anna.

. . .Besides all the rules that sensible people follow when dating online, like “meet in a public place,” “let someone know where you are,” and “condoms are non-negotiable,” we developed our own special list for middle-aged chicks who date on Craigslist:

1) A lot of men want to screw Sarah Silverman. (Three lovers told Lily the potty-mouthed comedian was their “fantasy fuck.”)

2) With ads for people over forty, add at least five years and ten pounds to the photo. That way, when the older and heavier date shows up, you won’t be as disappointed. This rule is as applicable to men as it is to women.

3) Men have a tendency to overreport the number of sex partners they have had. Women underreport.

4) You better have a good memory if you want to date a lot. In case you don’t, call everybody “honey” to avoid mix-ups and make a cheat sheet on each with the name of their dog, their favorite movies, wines, and sexual positions. Failure to take notes will make pillow talk a minefield. If you are compulsive, go ahead and make a chart.

5) Promise little, deliver much.

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craigslist1 The Best of The Best of Craigslist

About ‘The Best of Craigslist’

* Postings are nominated by craigslist readers, and are not necessarily endorsed by craigslist staff.
* Postings may be explicitly sexual, scatalogical, offensive, graphic, tasteless, and/or not funny.

austin> Calling all Roys or Troys or LeRoys
“If your name is Roy, Troy or LeRoy…I WANT YOU! I was with a Roy before (please see photo) and it didn’t last as long as my tattoo. Who knew?”

chicago> A Letter of Thanksgiving to Craigslist
“When I was ready to look for love, you sent (after a bit of trial and error) an attractive attorney who wants to settle down and has red body hair that makes my heart flutter. And when he told me that he wanted a threesome, you brought forth a suburban soccer mom with a rockin’ body who was looking for adventure and was in town on business. Your kindness knows no bounds.”

san diego > Expensive Loser Wanted!!!
“When we make out, say things to me like “grab it” and “suck me off”. I also LOVE to have a man put his hands on my head and push it into his crotch. Do NOT, under ANY circumstances try to give me an orgasm. This will only lead to pleasure, which I am not accustomed to.”

s.f. bayarea> Hot zombie sex roleplay – t4w
“Let’s go to the Power Exchange together and roleplay HOT ZOMBIE SEX. I mean it. I know it sounds really ridiculous, but I’ve always loved zombies and the undead, and I’ve always loved sex, so I want to mix the two. Additionally, I’ve seen (and am friends with) some really cute zombie girls, and I could really enjoy the mix of horror, terror, shock value in others, and, y’know. Sex.”

vancouver, BC> Letter from a rare form of female(?)
“Dear Booty Call: We have an animal attraction. If I happen to want some good sex, I’ll call you.”

seattle-tacoma> Dear Conceited Penis..
“I will not be playing with you or him until someone comes clean and explains to me what exactly happened. I saw the response in his e-mail, did the research, put 2 and 2 together and found out that one of you posted the ad for Adult Fun with a man, woman, or both. He denies that he had anything to do with it but YOU are in the picture along with MY comforter. One of you is lying. If one of you would just be honest then I wouldn’t have to put his belongings, or yours, out in the front yard.”

tucson> Seeking the heart of the librarian?
“Recently it seems that the Craigslist “missed connections” section has been a flurry of activity with requests for a meeting with a red headed librarian who works at the Himmel location. On two occasions, this lovely lady has been mentioned in this section. I have some bad news for you: she is taken, and she is also monogamous. To some, this may be disheartening. However, due to the high demand for her, and in the interest of fairness, I will issue a challenge. A duel.”

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About ‘The Best of Craigslist’

* Postings are nominated by craigslist readers, and are not necessarily endorsed by craigslist staff.
* Postings may be explicitly sexual, scatalogical, offensive, graphic, tasteless, and/or not funny.

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The eight women visited Long Island this summer along with vacationing families and other business travelers, staying in hotels and motels in commercial strips in middle-class suburbs like East Garden City, Hicksville and Woodbury. Their ages ranged from 20 to 32.

Three had come all the way from the San Francisco Bay area, one from Miami. Two lived less than 60 miles away, in Newark and Elizabeth, N.J. and two even closer, in Brooklyn.

All eight were arrested on prostitution charges here, snared in a new sting operation by the Nassau County police that focuses on Craigslist.org, the ubiquitous Web site best known for its employment and for-sale advertisements but which law enforcement officials say is increasingly also used to trade sex for money.

Nassau County has made more than 70 arrests since it began focusing on Craigslist last year, one of numerous crackdowns by vice squads from Hawaii to New Hampshire that have lately been monitoring the Web site closely, sometimes placing decoy ads to catch would-be customers.

“Craigslist has become the high-tech 42nd Street, where much of the solicitation takes place now,” said Richard McGuire, Nassau’s assistant chief of detectives. “Technology has worked its way into every profession, including the oldest.”

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craigslist1 The Best of The Best of Craigslist

About ‘The Best of Craigslist’

* Postings are nominated by craigslist readers, and are not necessarily endorsed by craigslist staff.
* Postings may be explicitly sexual, scatalogical, offensive, graphic, tasteless, and/or not funny

Why I no longer want to have sex
“It has taken me 9 years of unsatisfactory sex to realize that men are clueless in bed and that my time will be much better spent pleasuring myself. I am aware that I will be spending a lot more money on AA batteries and I have come to terms with that. I will still be saving money, by not having to buy condoms.

I just want to make it clear that it is not that I cannot have an orgasm, I have them all the time, just not with someone else in the room, it is just that guys do not get what it takes to get a woman off.”

To all my clients….from your friendly online porn store
“I have run an online adult goodies store for about 3 years now. To say the least, I have run into some interesting characters in my 3 years of online smut-pandering. I am about to end my run of naughty knick-knacks and I’d just like to give a wee shout-out to the people who struck me as the most interesting, funny, annoying and downright memorable. Here goes nothing….”

Rave: Planned Parenthood
“The nurse, without missing a beat, said “You know what, have as many partners as you want! Just practice safe sex!” and opened up a medicine cabinet. “Here are a few for the road!” she chirped, dumping rolls of condoms in a little goody bag with pamphlets she had sitting on the table next to my chart. Shocked that someone can be so accepting, I stuttered and said “Just how many do you think I need?!” She smiled and said “As many as it takes!” I was speechless. Thank you, nurse practioner. You rock. You were absolutely wonderful today. You not only had an outstanding bedside manner that more than a few doctors should acquire but you also showed genuine kindness and understanding that is so rarely seen anywhere today, much less in medical profession. Most of all, thank you for not judging and thank you for supporting me. “Wanted: STONER BOYFRIEND
“Where are all the cool hippy guys out there? I would drive to Santa Cruz, park my fine ass in a park, playing my ukulele, eating tofu jerky, waving a clear baggy of catnip tied to a stick and spend a day trying to lure a cool stoner to join me on my blanket of love…,but I have a real 8-5 job and can’t afford that luxury. So where do I find one of you earthenware brothas?”

To the Doms of DC – w4m
“In the nine months I have lived in DC I have met and corresponded with a number of you, and frankly I am a little disappointed with the men in this area who call themselves Doms. I find it hard to believe that in a city based on the power of politics that at least a few of you can’t step up to the plate and get the whole BDSM thing right. Since you all seem to be having a difficult time with this I thought I would give you a few guidelines to make your search for your own submissive princess more successful. I am only giving you this input out of love, no one wants to see you succeed more than I do dear, so please read carefully.

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. . .College provides a lot of downtime, and for a brief while before I wandered into the Erotic Services section, I was a little obsessed with casually encountering half the metro area. The first time I met someone from Casual Encounters, my palms were sweaty from nerves when he called me to let me know he was outside. He wasn’t exactly what I had posted for (in the early days I lacked patience), but he was a young, cute guy who suffered only from being a bit generically attractive. I had to sign him into my dorm room, and my heart was racing in the elevator back up to the privacy of my bottom bunk. It wasn’t the most exciting sex of my life, but it was good sex and it came easy. After letting him out, I was stunned to realize that I had gotten laid without even having to put on shoes. It was the lazy woman’s dream – available sex 24/7 with practically zero effort.

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craigslist The Best of The Best of Craigslist"About ‘The Best of Craigslist’

* Postings are nominated by craigslist readers, and are not necessarily endorsed by craigslist staff.
* Postings may be explicitly sexual, scatalogical, offensive, graphic, tasteless, and/or not funny

Does Your Human Need a Date, Too?
“I’m posting for my human, as she thinks this online dating thing is silly and won’t do it herself. But I think it could work.”

For the girls: So You’ve Decided You Want To Date A Houston Musician
“If your musician cheats on you, don’t stay with him. He will not change, he’ll just look for someone who makes him feel like a rockstar without all the jealousy and drama of a real relationship.”

Advice from an ER doctor to drug seekers
“The first rule is be nice to the nurses. They are underpaid, overworked, and have a lot more influence over your stay in the ER than you think. When you are tempted to treat them like shit because they are not the ones who write the rx, remember: I might write for you to get a shot of 2mg of dilaudid, but your behavior toward the nurses determines what percent of that
dilaudid is squirted onto the floor before you get your shot.”

Dear Males
“When I want a relationship I get all these perverts thinking its impressive & proper behavior to tell me how big their penis is within the first 5 minutes of meeting me.”

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craigslist The Best of The Best of CraigslistAbout ‘The Best of Craigslist’

* Postings are nominated by craigslist readers, and are not necessarily endorsed by craigslist staff.
* Postings may be explicitly sexual, scatalogical, offensive, graphic, tasteless, and/or not funny

seaThe Perfect Craigslist Girl, Or So I Thought
“I never saw her again. I called, texted, and e-mailed for weeks, long after I should have stopped, but I just couldn’t accept it. Then I started to realize that I didn’t know her last name, where she worked, or where her apartment was. I had no way to find her. Why hadn’t I ever thought to ask? Why hadn’t it just come up naturally in conversation? Was it all on purpose?- some sick manipulation? But why?- to what end? I’d become paranoid. Distant. I re-bounded badly, very badly, embarrassingly, over and over again.”

phiDear, guy masturbating in the bathroom stall at my work…
“2. Silence is Golden – While we all might empathize with your situation, NO ONE WANTS YOU HEAR YOU SLAP YOUR SALAMI!! And we certainly don’t want to hear the gentle grunts you were letting out. It was like being forced to listen to the audio of a bad gay porn soundtrack, minus the cheesy Casio keyboard jazz/funk fusion music. Keep it down, will ya? “

chiLet us frolic in my totally dope blanket fort
“My living room is just waiting to be turned into a totally sweet labyrinth of love.”

sfo Dear Hot Chicks,
“If you are physically attractive and dress in such a way to grab the attention of attractive males, you will also grab the attention of us unattractive males.”

sfo143 Reasons That I Will Be The Best Girlfriend You’ve Ever Had
“2. Sex isn’t always love-making to me. Sometimes its just wild, sweaty monkey fucking. It’s cool.
42. I will love your penis
82. I get free condoms from school.
83. I’m 22 with the mind of a 30 year old and a heart of a 10 year old.
108. I know when Pirate Day is.”

bosI’m Done With Ya, Bitches
“Speaking of Begrudging Attempts at Anal
“Oh, go ahead, just stick it in and get it over with.” A girlfriend actually said this to me once. I have never been a person to nag a woman with requests for anal. I’ve never even asked for it. She asked me why guys are so interested in it and I tried to explain. It’s more about, in an intimate setting, allowing your entire body to become a sex organ, overcoming shame, and trusting one another. A combination of relaxation and overpowering arousal. Don’t patronize my sexuality. “

RANT: Middle-Aged Women complaining about sex!
“Yes ladies, it’s your fault I have no interest in sex! Not getting any and whacking off to porn for 25 years has desensitized my nerve endings to the point that I feel nothing from my navel to my knees!!!! Fantasizing about every possible way of f’ing your brains out has distorted reality for me!!! You, walking in with nothing on under a fur coat pales in comparison to me fantasizing about you rimming my ass while I fuck your sister in front of 18,000 adoring fans at the United Center!!!! “

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craigslist The best of The Best of Craigslist
About ‘The Best of Craigslist’

  • Postings are nominated by craigslist readers, and are not necessarily endorsed by craigslist staff.
  • Postings may be explicitly sexual, scatalogical, offensive, graphic, tasteless, and/or not funny

No more sex. Please. (s.f. bayarea)
“When I first saw your vagina I was so excited to see all my favorite traits in one package. Now the faint smell and taste that I once loved permeate every tissue on my body. I can’t get the smell off my face (I’ll probably have to shave off my goatee), and the now nauseating taste seems to come from my own sweat or something.

I will forgive you one transgression though because you obviously were unaware, but in the future remember that immediately after a man comes, it is exactly the wrong time to torture him by latching yourself to him like a freaking 5-point safety belt and grinding hard against his incredibly sensitive penis. It’s not funny, I tried to throw you off, but if you’ve ever been in a straight-jacket ….”

10 Reasons to Date a Lesbian (san diego)
“1. I don’t hate men. This is because, unlike most straight women, I don’t have an ex-boyfriend or an ex-husband who has cheated or otherwise done me wrong. Instead, the men I’ve chosen to spend time with have always been my friends. We’ve drunk beer together, gone camping, and talked about girls. I only have good things to say about the guys I know.”

Tips for Using Craigslist to Overcome Post-Break-up Depression
(vancouver)
“1. Post daily missives, alternating between maudlin, yet not entirely hopeless, pleas for reunion in Missed Connections, and scathing, wrathful inditements of the other person’s character on Rants and Raves when plaintive Missed Connections posts are ignored. If your daily Craigslist ritual seems to be further deepening the chasm of your agony, create a list of tips for others who may also be struggling with the demons of misguided internet therapy.”

You Might Be Fucking My Roommate, but… (milwaukee)
“Fucking in our common areas. The only reason I know this shit goes on is because I’ve found the condom wrappers in very odd locations. There’s nothing I can do about this, but it creeps me out to think about where either your or her ass has been. If I knew you were both clean and conscious individuals, this might be an area of negotiation, but I know her habits. I’ve seen glimpses into yours. Do what you want in the shower. Otherwise, stay in her room, I beg you.”

Vasectomy: $400. Speechless look on her face: priceless
. (seattle-tacoma.)
“Four months into dating, I get the “I’m pregnant” talk. She’s going on and on about how the condom must have broke and now we really need to think about getting married “for the baby”. She’s positively giddy. She has a baby in her and she thinks she’s gonna have a good meal ticket (me) to go along with her new 7lb annuity.

At this point, I’m just as giddy. I get to pull the reverse “oops” on her. I figured that she slept with some bad boy and got knocked up. Good thing I was using condoms! Better still that I have a serious mistrust of women who can’t think beyond their own uteri.”

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craigslist The Best of The Best of Craigslist

About ‘The Best of Craigslist’
  • Postings are nominated by craigslist readers, and are not necessarily endorsed by craigslist staff.
  • Postings may be explicitly sexual, scatalogical, offensive, graphic, tasteless, and/or not funny

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craigslist The Best of The Best of CraigslistAbout ‘The Best of Craigslist’

  • Postings are nominated by craigslist readers, and are not necessarily endorsed by craigslist staff.
  • Postings may be explicitly sexual, scatalogical, offensive, graphic, tasteless, and/or not funny

I see penises. (New York)
“While the fall has been unseasonably warm, I have faith that it will soon be too cold for the penises to come out.”

Life, Circumcision, and the Cannon (Seattle-Tacoma)
“Being the first person we had come upon who would admit to having a meat tulip, we were intrigued and my colleague started asking him some questions. These questions were about fundamental mechanics of operating an uncircumcised penis, i.e. sex, hygiene, etc. I am no doctor, but Jiminy’s answers did not make any sense. Physiologically, the answers did not add up. Upon further questioning involving some rudimentary diagrams, the following became clear: Jiminy Bonerpants was and is circumcised, but he did not know this.”

197 Reasons to date me (SF)
“149. I’ve never smuggled drugs out of the country
150. I don’t care if you eat dinner without a shirt
151. I think it’s hot when you masturbate”

Trannies at the Gym
(SF/Bay Area)
“Please don’t come in all full of sassy attitude. Some of us do speak Spanish, and we do know what you’re saying. And those who don’t speak Spanish can tell from the looks on your faces and the tones of your voice. A bitch is a bitch is a bitch in any language or gender orientation. We don’t whisper and glare at you for using the ladies locker room…we know it’s your only option.”

Dear Guy Masterbating In Enoch Pratt (Baltimore)
“Firstly, I would consider moving to the bathroom. You’re less likely to be interrupted by nerdly Graduate Students researching Ancient Mesopotamia. If you have to continue doing it standing up in a library aisle. At least prep yourself for quick put-away-ability.”

Oh, the men I have met off CRAIGSLIST…(SF/Bay Area)
“34 MEN. Yes, that’s right, I’ve met 34 men off of CL. No joke. NO, I have not had sex with all of them, but I could have. I’ve gotten over 3500 responses in the past 6 months, from ads that I have posted, and I have met about 8 from ads that I responded to. I know most people reading this will think I’m full of shit, but it’s all true. I don’t know if I can do them all justice in this little post, but I’ll try my best. SO NOW.. WITHOUT FURTHER ADO.. THE MEN I’VE MET OFF CRAIGSLIST.”

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Patricia Chang
Contributing Writer

The categories on the classified website Craigslist.org seem fairly normal — listings are mostly for apartments, furniture and jobs. That is, until you get to the “erotic services” section — prostitution.

Just last weekend, an 18-year-old woman in San Francisco was nearly raped by the solicitor of her sex ad on Craigslist. Last Wednesday, police in Washington state arrested several Craigslist prostitutes, including a 16-year-old girl.

As more stories of online prostitution hit the news, it seems more people, including NYU students, are pimping themselves out online.

Searching for NYU students offering erotic service on Craigslist returns a handful of results — some even have pictures.

“Cindy,” a CAS alumna who was granted anonymity by WSN, posted an ad last spring titled: “NYU student — horny, broke and alone.”

She received a flood of e-mail replies for several days following the post.

“I have made literally thousands of dollars off of Craigslist, just being an attractive young college student,” said Cindy, who has been using Craigslist as a method of income for about a year. (more…)

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