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Whores

Hamilton Steele — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 00:51:58 +0000

Whores – Making American Great Again Whores are part of the financial backbone that puts food on America’s tables and a roof over the head of millions. Yet, those who put their bodies and reputations on the line remain powerless. The majority of society looks down on them, while happily exploiting them, both sexually and […]

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The New Humanitarian examines the aid system’s ‘double standards’ on sex workers

Sidney Falco — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 16:35:08 +0000

From the estimable Paula Dupraz-Dobias for The New Humanitarian: In their policies, many aid groups recognize the agency of sex workers while in practice framing them as victims, says Anna Shapiro, policy lead at Global Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP), an organization advocating for sex workers’ health and human rights. “They’re supposed to provide humanitarian assistance […]

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There is compelling evidence

Hamilton Steele — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 00:01:53 +0000

There is compelling evidence that government is orchestrating the border crisis. There is compelling evidence to suggest that Western governments have intentionally manufactured the border crisis to generate public outrage and support for authoritarian border controls. Freedom of movement, more so than freedom of speech, threatens the control of aspiring dictators. Remember, it was the […]

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Group sex should be normalized

Hamilton Steele — Fri, 10 Feb 2023 23:08:00 +0000

Group sex might make society a better place Group sex, also known as group sexuality, refers to sexual behavior that involves multiple participants. Despite being a relatively common form of sexual expression, it is often stigmatized and misunderstood by society. This can result in negative consequences for individuals who engage in group sex and for […]

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Sex Workers Sue Canadian Government Over Disastrous, Wrong-Headed PCEPA

Cliff Hanger — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 21:17:02 +0000

Oppressive present-day laws in Canada make it impossible for sex workers to make a living without severe discrimination because of the criminalization of their clients. The current constitutional challenge against the Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act (PCEPA) differs from Canada’s Bedford case in a crucial ways. As reported in Chateline, Jane Li supported her family through […]

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Philly sex workers receive help from coronavirus relief fund

Sam Langhorne — Sat, 13 Jun 2020 19:05:07 +0000

From Billy Penn — Imagine there’s a deadly respiratory virus going around, and your line of work requires close contact with other people. Like, really close contact. For sex workers, the coronavirus pandemic has been especially scary. If they decide to continue working in person, they put themselves at high risk. If they forgo close contact […]

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ACLU: Sex Work is Real Work, and It’s Time to Treat it That Way

Sam Langhorne — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 16:32:31 +0000

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 regularly target, harass, and assault sex workers or people they think are sex workers. The police usually get away with the abuse because sex workers fear being arrested if they […]

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Kaytlin Bailey: Protect and empower New Hampshire’s sex workers

Sam Langhorne — Sun, 24 May 2020 18:24:09 +0000

A terrific Op/Ed by Kaytlin Bailey, director of communication for Decriminalize Sex Work On May 18, the New Hampshire Union Leader published an op/ed “Sex work is not work” by Jasmine Grace, founder of Jasmine Grace Outreach, one of many organizations raising awareness about human trafficking by conflating it with adult consensual prostitution. Among many […]

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Sex work advocates blast Queens, NY DA’s plan to prosecute buyers

Sam Langhorne — Fri, 22 May 2020 21:14:55 +0000

Less than a year after Democrat Melinda Katz told one LGBTQ political club that she backed the outright legalization of sex work and conveyed to another queer club that she would focus on prosecuting “human traffickers or those who force people into sex work,” the top prosecutor in Queens, NY is singing a different tune now […]

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With Election of Anti-Sex Work Democrat Melinda Katz as DA, Queens, NY Faces Nordic Model-Style Crackdown

Sam Langhorne — Thu, 21 May 2020 15:18:50 +0000

In 2019, the nation’s most diverse county narrowly missed a major opportunity to embrace sex work decriminalization. A little less than a year later, the implications of the loss are being revealed. In the 2019 Democratic primary for district attorney in New York City’s Queens County, Tiffany Cabán, a high-profile former defense attorney who ran […]

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