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Consenting to Incest

Hamilton Steele — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 17:20:11 +0000

Consenting to Incest is controversial Consenting to Incest raises significant ethical, legal, and moral questions. Any sexual relationship between close family members is considered incest, while consenting to incest refers to that intimate relationship exclusively between consenting adults. This practice is not only taboo in many cultures, it is outright illegal in many nations, But […]

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By appearances, The Anti Sex worker movement is a new wave of sex work Prohabition

Adult Industry Beat — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 02:30:09 +0000

The Anti Sex worker movement wants it their way Only, Ordering people around, as if it’s like Chinese take out, or having it their way at Burger King. Much like in the 1920s, the unpopular attempt at preventing the manufacturing and sales of alcohol, Now in 2021, A new wave of the religious resurrection […]

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APAG Announces Name Change

APAG Union — Sat, 19 Dec 2020 01:24:25 +0000

The organization known as APAG is excited to announce changes to its brand. Once known as the Adult Performers Actors Guild, with a vote of membership APAG has rebranded as the Adult Performance Artists Guild. As they move in 2021, the union is going through organizational changes. After pulling away from its parent union IEAU, […]

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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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Sex Worker Rights Advocates Raise the Alarms about EARN IT on International Whores Day #IWD

Sam Langhorne — Tue, 02 Jun 2020 18:42:44 +0000

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.

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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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Malta: ‘Decriminalization is the safest way for sex workers to work’

xxxReporter — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 16:28:08 +0000

Decriminalization is the safest way for sex workers to work, a sex worker and activist in the field, told the The Malta Independent. Speaking on condition of anonymity, she said that she has been working in the industry for well over a decade. “Decriminalization gives full service sex workers the freedom to screen and refuse […]

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New York state legislators reintroduce bills to decriminalize prostitution

xxxReporter — Tue, 11 Feb 2020 02:14:19 +0000

Support growing for legalization of prostitution in New York State, study finds Legislators in New York state reintroduce past measures in the State Senate and the Assembly to decriminalize sex work. The bills—S6419 in the Senate and A8230 in the Assembly—that would decriminalize prostitution are backed by Sens. Julia Salazar, Robert Jackson, Luis Sepúlveda, and […]

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