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
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
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
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
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
SESTA claims to be about stopping sex trafficking. In fact, the name of the full bill is Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (or SESTA for
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
They are hangin him with 36 second degree felonies I have a copy of the license that was presented to him and its clear that
