BROOKLYN, NY — Former Smallville star Allison Mack pleaded guilty for her role in a sex-slave cult that preyed on vulnerable starlets and empty-headed socialites.
You may have never heard of the “Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act“, but it cleared Senate on Monday through a secret
VANCOUVER—Kerry Porth fondly remembers the day in 2013 when the Supreme Court of Canada made the landmark decision to strike down laws that criminalized doing
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
Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK where paying for sex is illegal. A County Armagh man who was the first person in
“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
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
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
Branding the flesh of female ‘sex slaves’ was her own idea, says former “Smallville” actress Allison Mack — now an accused leader of the upstate
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
How about legislators stop looking at sex work as something only victims or ‘sluts’ with no morals, and begin treating their job as a job
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
After years of defiantly championing the controversial ‘Nordic model’ for criminalizing sex work, controversial Greens candidate Kathleen Maltzahn has performed a spectacular backflip ahead of
On this week’s Voice of San Diego Podcast, I. India Thusi, an assistant professor at California Western School of Law, joins hosts Scott Lewis, Sara Libby
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
In the summer of 2016, Canada’s Supreme Court called on all criminal justice system actors to undertake real, transformative change. The Jordan decision – one
The defendant’s prodigious, smelly, uncircumsized poronga was, in the immortal words of The New York Post, “a huge giveaway” A disgraced Brooklyn jail guard’s
The will to power, the will to use human beings in social experiments, is to be distrusted at all times. The impulse to create, or
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
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
Ground zero for the perverse kinship of two soulless users, this is the neighborhood that predation, manipulation and betrayal called home Porn Valley, Calif.
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
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
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
Early Saturday, we ran a story entitled, Euro sex workers say ‘Shy Love / The VIP Connect TRAFFICKED us to the U.S., held our money to
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
