Newsweek Archives - Mike South The institute for the advance study of insensitivity and pornography Sat, 08 Jul 2023 12:53:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://i0.wp.com/mikesouth.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/favicon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Newsweek Archives - Mike South 32 32 1788040 Newsweek Op/Ed: Sex Work Should Be Legal – If Only To Protect Women From Police https://mikesouth.com/prostitution/newsweek-op-ed-sex-work-should-be-legal-if-only-to-protect-women-from-police-49421/ https://mikesouth.com/prostitution/newsweek-op-ed-sex-work-should-be-legal-if-only-to-protect-women-from-police-49421/#comments Wed, 07 Aug 2019 23:31:26 +0000 http://mikesouth.com/?p=49421 This excellent op/ed by Liesl Gerntholtz, acting program director at Human Rights Watch, was published Wednesday at Newsweek. It echoes the sentiments of every sex worker I know — police violence is a greater threat than violent clients, and police disinterest in protecting sex workers enables violence against them. Rofhiwa Mlilo is a 40-year-old single mother who sells sex for […]

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