A new research study about the consequences of FOSTA/SESTA, the 2018 law that was supposedly meant to curtail online sex trafficking, confirms that the effect of
Out today — International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers — from the Electronic Frontier Foundation on the FOSTA debacle: Today is International Day to
It’s been a year now since the introduction of the SESTA/FOSTA laws and you know what we found out? It’s actually hurt more people than
A federal court considering a challenge to the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act of 2017, or FOSTA, dismissed the case
From Emily Witt’s excellent New Yorker essay, “After the Closure of Backpage, Increasingly Vulnerable Sex Workers Are Demanding Their Rights”, published Friday. On a
Siouxsie Q, adult performer, activist and former Free Speech Coalition Director of Policy and Industry Relations, penned an excellent piece on the FOSTA–SESTA calamity for Rolling
After more than a month offline, the popular sexual services website USASexGuide has returned. The site temporarily suspended operations last month after President Trump signed the FOSTA legislation into law, The
On June 2, International Sex Workers Day, members of BAPS (Bay Area Pros Support) and the noted sex worker clinic the St. James Infirmary will rally
O.School set out to be an inclusive sex ed platform, writes Megan Farokhmanesh at The Verge, but now the misguided anti-trafficking law FOSTA and internal strife are
Citing the signing of the FOSTA bill into law, USASexGuide, a multi-city bulletin board offering, as XBIZ elegantly phrases it, “forum categories that mirror the full spectrum
At a signing ceremony any the White House Wednesday morning, President Trump signed the controversial FOSTA-SESTA bill into law. The president said, “We are going
The following announcement appeared on the homepage of TheEroticReview.com, a.k.a. ‘TER’, Friday — the same day the the feds seized Backpage.com — stating that the
If current law is adequate to seize website Backpage.com, why the hell do we need the grievous overreach of FOSTA / SESTA? WASHINGTON, D.C. –
Craigslist announced last week that it would cease hosting personal ads of any kind, in response to FOSTA (a.k.a. FOSTA-SESTA), a bill allegedly designed to
The anti-sex work brigade told us the draconian FOSTA-SESTA is needed to protect victims of sex trafficking. However, an order issued March 29 by United
Mexico provides another example of how legislation aimed at the myth of widespread international sex trafficking is merely a tool to prosecute sex workers
This week, the Senate is expected to vote on FOSTA-SESTA, a bill package that could put sex workers’ lives on the line. By making social
When hookers go hungry it’s a symptom of a dystopian society. When hookers go hungry is when it’s time to re-examine our relationship with government
The Granny Panty Podcast is a fun, informative, and empowering. The podcast highlights mature creators in the adult industry. Therefore, as the most recent guest,
Arguably the boogie man mantra these days, “Trafficking”, ” Prostitution”, ” Sex workers” and a distant last “Porn” are certainly all vastly different topics, summing
First OnlyFans stated, It was the Investors who the massive content creator platform sited as taking issues with adult content itself, Then it was the
Vice took a look at yesterday’s story by Forensic News and here is what they learned …. banks hate sex workers. Then again that’s not
Long overdue and quite welcome from the ACLU: Sex workers aren’t always a part of the conversation about police brutality, but they should be. Police
Since its inception nearly 45 years ago, International Whores Day reclaims a sometimes derogatory word to set the tone for a day of political action.
Like FOSTA-SESTA, this proposed bill chips away at the protections offered by Communications Decency Act section 230 under the guise of stopping human trafficking. Members
An Aug 17 trial is scheduled in Phoenix for Michael Lacey and James Larkin, the founders of Backpage.com, on charges they knowingly published prostitution ads and
A federal judge refused to dismiss a 100-count indictment against the creators of Backpage.com on Thursday, finding the indictment “goes through a long and fact-specific description of the defendants participation in a conspiracy to facilitate and promote prostitution,.”
