. . . Mr. Garcia’s approach is at odds with a growing global awareness of the harms of prostitution, including its adverse effects on the safety of nonprostituting women as well as those in it. Prosecuting johns does make a difference, as Sweden has discovered. Sweden levies serious legal penalties against johns whom the Swedish [...]
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San Francisco weighs decriminalizing prostitution (The Associated Press)
Posted in sexwork on Oct 22nd, 2008
By EVELYN NIEVES
SAN FRANCISCO AP — In this live-and-let-live town, where medical marijuana clubs do business next to grocery stores and an annual fair celebrates sadomasochism, prostitutes could soon walk the streets without fear of arrest.
San Francisco would become the first major U.S. city to decriminalize prostitution if voters next month approve Proposition K — [...]
I saw this on the Chemistry list and have permission from the casting director to repost this notice. Here’s a post from Cinematical with a little more background.
-Viviane
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Steven Soderbergh is directing an independent film that will explore expanded ideas of intimacy and relationships and is looking for non-actors to interview to play fictional characters. [...]
Aren’t we past this, yet? Is this even a question? Are journalists so incompetent, so incapable of carrying out the most basic research, that they can only assume that sex, for us, is intolerable? Or are these journalists really just uninterested in sex themselves and can’t resist transferring their sex-is-gross attitudes to the women who [...]
UN Meeting on Sex Worker’s Rights & Safe Sex
Posted in sexwork on Feb 25th, 2008
Empowering Sex Workers to Ensure Safety, Health and the Protection of Human Rights
United Nations Commission on the Status of Women
52nd Session
Parallel Event Sponsored by
Sex Workers Project, Urban Justice Center &
International Women’s Health Coalition
February 27, 2008
Time: 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Church Center
(Across the street from United Nations, 44th and 1st)
Hardin Room (11th Fl.)
777 United Nations Plaza
NY, [...]
December 17th: International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers
Posted in Events, Fetish & Kink, nyc, sexwork on Dec 17th, 2007
December 17th is International Day to End Violence Against Sex [...]
Dec. 17th: International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers
Posted in sexwork on Nov 28th, 2007
December 17th is International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. This event was created to call attention to hate crimes committed against sex workers all over the globe.Originally thought of by Dr. Annie Sprinkle and started by the Sex Workers Outreach Project USA in 2003 as a memorial and vigil for the victims of [...]
This is the official call for submissions for the 2008 SWAS tour! Anyone who has worked in the sex industry is encouraged to apply: porn stars, strippers, escorts, dommes, webcam girls (and boys), hookers, etc. Spread this around, post it on your blog, tell everyone you know. And feel free to contact us with questions!
THE [...]
Searchable DC madam phone list now online
Posted in DC, deborahjanepalfrey, sexwork on Jul 11th, 2007
From the CARR-L (Computer-assisted Reporting & Research) listserv:
http://www.dcphonelist.com/
Use this site to search the publicly released phone records of “DCMadam” Deborah Jeane Palfrey, proprietor of the Pamela Martin and Associates “high end adult fantasy firm” in Washington, DC.
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Posted in audacia ray, cybersex, internet, onlinedating, porn, reginalynn, sexbloggers, sexwork, women on Jun 4th, 2007
“You know you spend way too much time looking at internet porn when you Google ‘cream pies’ and are surprised when the top results are all recipes for banana-and-chocolate cream pies,” writes Audacia Ray, whose book Naked on the Internet: Hookups, Downloads and Cashing In on Internet Sexploration hits stores Friday.
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