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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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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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Billionaire Kanye West is very proud of stealing from sex workers, He gloats at his malevolent deed

Adult Industry Beat — Sun, 14 Nov 2021 00:23:51 +0000

Few on this planet would not know who the pugnacious, Ignoramous Buffon Kanye West is, I am one who would not be able to identify him standing alone at a mall Until the day he hooked up with Kim Kardashian, where he ran his course with her too. So he is not just famous, the […]

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Is OnlyFans troubles with the sex worker industry over, Or its just Beginning ?

Adult Industry Beat — Tue, 12 Oct 2021 07:14:17 +0000

First OnlyFans stated, It was the Investors who the massive content creator platform sited as taking issues with adult content itself, Then it was the merchant bank payment processors, Now it is the government having the Content giant OnlyFans in their cross hairs, taking aim at the same ole mantra again, signaling once more, Trafficking […]

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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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Nevada Brothel Worker Lobbies for Hazard Pay for Legal Sex Workers Amid COVID-19

Sam Langhorne — Sun, 07 Jun 2020 18:10:31 +0000

In an interview with Insider, licensed prostitute Alice Little called for a higher revenue split as a kind of hazard pay, along with better representation for sex workers, as Nevada’s legal brothels plan to reopen amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Little told journalist Julia Naftulin that Nevada sex workers aren’t being compensated appropriately for the coronavirus transmission […]

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The Economist: Germany helps sex workers idled by COVID-19

Sam Langhorne — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 23:07:41 +0000

From The Economist: Few industries have been as pummelled by COVID-19 as sex work, which in Germany is legal and regulated. Like many workplaces, brothels had to close in March. Yet although massage parlours and nail salons have reopened, prostitutes have been left in limbo. Some, such as Undine de Rivière in Hamburg, are innovating […]

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CNN: Can the world’s oldest profession survive the age of social distancing?

Sam Langhorne — Mon, 25 May 2020 19:02:57 +0000

Social distancing and the new temporary: Don’t kiss. Tell clients to wash their hands before they touch you. Wear a mask. Avoid face-to-face positions. And even: Put on a nurse costume and pull out a thermometer — if his temperature is normal, make it part of the game. If he has a fever, end the […]

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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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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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