Readers of this site will be familiar with porn star Trinity St. Clair, her partner Gregg Dodson, and the duo’s latest endeavor, the escort website GFE
California Gov. Gavin Newsom today held true to a promise he made to sign into law SB 233 — a bill that prohibits the arrest
More than a dozen critics of criminal prostitution laws, including current and former sex workers, academics and defense attorneys, challenged Rhode Island lawmakers to go
The escorting business, specific to porn stars has become a real shit show lately. Especially when it comes to dealing with shady people like Trinity
Delaware Attorney General Matt Denn is using powers recently granted to his office in a bid to dissolve the legal entities behind Backpage.com – a classified advertising
This article from the San Francisco Chronicle contains few surprises to readers of MikeSouth.com, but it’s a riveting look at the devastation wrought by the
“For sex workers, the ongoing fight against stigmatization and criminalization is life or death,” writes Gaby Del Valle in a powerful essay. “If SESTA and FOSTA
The APAC – also known as the performer branch of the Free Speech Coalition didn’t get off to a good start. While the idea behind the
According to a recent article that appeared on Motherboard, film producer Erika Lust had her YouTube account shut down and was banned from YouTube after
I was going through one of my old hard drives and I found an article from back in 2011 while I was with Bluebird that
Today, June 2, sex workers and their allies dressed in red and marched through cities across the Unitred States. The rallies came in recognition of
YouKandy tweeted: “Due to FirstChoice Pay going out of business and taking tens of thousands of dollars we had paid them to pay models, we
A tentative trial date has been set for two founders and five employees of Backpage.com in a case in which the classified advertising website has
This is an excellent piece on the post-Backpage / post-FOSTA world by April Glaser. I’ve excepted two bits here, and encourage readers to follow the link
Sacramento, Calif. — California Senate Bill 1204 (SB 1204), which aimed to broaden the definition of criminal “pandering” in the state, and in the process essentially eliminate
After signing into law the keystone legislation of the moral panic over sex trafficking, President Trump considers a posthumous pardon for Jack Johnson, the first victim of the
Cloudflare, a leading content delivery and web security company, announced this week it had terminated its content delivery network services for the brand new social media
This infuriated me. Actress Victoria Pannell is a darling of the socially conscious left. A Democrat, “activist” and SAG/AFTRA National Boated Member. A youth organizer
The attacks on the Women’s March demonstrate that the most putrid pearl clutching about sex work comes, once again, from the left. If you’re a
Carl Ferrer, chief executive of Backpage.com, which was seized by the federal government one week ago, pleaded guilty on Thursday to charges in California and Texas, and
As the U.S. government crackdown on sex trafficking reaches fever pitch, several Eastern European sex workers tell MikeSouth.com that Shy Love, the expatriate American porn
I don’t want to sound overly dramatic, but well … this is a big deal. This changes life as we know it on the Internet.
From an op-ed by author Alana Massey on the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act of 2017 (SESTA), “a horrific bill” that inches closer to a U.S. Senate
