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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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Modern Slavery uses the Internet

Hamilton Steele — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 03:32:43 +0000

Modern Slavery uses the Internet and it’s shocking. It can be argued that anyone working at any job they hate is being exploited. Modern Slavery uses the internet and it is truly shocking. Often in life we get involved in things that turn out differently than we expected, and we start to resent the […]

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Louisville woman operating ‘Playhouse of Domination’ sentenced for sex trafficking women

xxxReporter — Fri, 20 Dec 2019 19:21:33 +0000

A woman who ran “Playhouse of Domination” out of an apartment in Louisville, Kentucky was sentenced to 180 months in prison this week for sex trafficking two women, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Prosecutors revealed that Cleoretta Allen, 41, first used the rented apartment as a BDSM dungeon business. Playhouse of Domination According to court […]

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UPDATED: GirlsDoPorn Owners, Employees Indicted by Feds for Sex Trafficking Conspiracy

xxxReporter — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 15:04:00 +0000

The owners and two employees of the infamous adult websites GirlsDoPorn and GirlsDoToys were charged in federal court in San Diego, Thursday, with operating a sex trafficking conspiracy, per a federal criminal complaint. The three women and one man stand charged with crimes in connection with a scheme to deceive and coerce young women to appear in […]

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Feds Bring In Rem Forfeiture Action vs 500 Domains Allegedly Used in Prostitution Ring

Sam Langhorne — Wed, 24 Jul 2019 21:05:53 +0000

The U.S. government has filed an in rem action for forfeiture against 500 domain names that it claims were used in an illegal prostitution and sex trafficking ring. One of the alleged leaders, Weixuan Zhou, 37, of Guang Zhou, China, used gmail and hotmail email addresses and a Los Angeles-area telephone number. He and five […]

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Australian candidate Kathleen Maltzahn backflips on Sex Worker Rights after intense pressure

Sam Langhorne — Sat, 19 May 2018 18:15:24 +0000

After years of defiantly championing the controversial ‘Nordic model’ for criminalizing sex work, controversial Greens candidate Kathleen Maltzahn has performed a spectacular backflip ahead of this year’s state election, now saying she wouldn’t vote for it if given the chance. The ‘Nordic Model’? The Nordic Model is a form of sex work legislation based on similar […]

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The ‘Swedish Model’ of sex work: chronicle of a disaster foretold

Sam Langhorne — Wed, 02 May 2018 07:35:18 +0000

The will to power, the will to use human beings in social experiments, is to be distrusted at all times. The impulse to create, or even to propose, what [Martin] Amis calls “the perfect society” is likewise to be suspected. At several points he states with near perfect simplicity that ideology is hostile to human nature, […]

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Backpage CEO Carl Ferrer takes plea deal, agrees to testify against other site officials

Voice For Reason — Sat, 14 Apr 2018 03:38:15 +0000

Carl Ferrer, chief executive of Backpage.com, which was seized by the federal government one week ago, pleaded guilty on Thursday to charges in California and Texas, and officials unsealed plea agreements made last week in an Arizona federal court. Ferrer, 57, pleaded guilty to one charge of conspiracy and three counts of money laundering in California, and to […]

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Shy Love Trafficking Scam: BrillBabes exonerated; Is someone talking to the Feds?

Sam Langhorne — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 16:39:59 +0000

Early Saturday, we ran a story entitled, Euro sex workers say ‘Shy Love / The VIP Connect TRAFFICKED us to the U.S., held our money to keep us in line’, and it caused quite an uproar. For instance, we are pleased to learn that some performers who had been scheduled to come to the U.S. under […]

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Euro sex workers say ‘Shy Love sheelagh Blumberg / The VIP Connect TRAFFICKED us to the U.S., held our money to keep us in line’

Sam Langhorne — Sat, 07 Apr 2018 05:36:03 +0000

As the U.S. government crackdown on sex trafficking reaches fever pitch, several Eastern European sex workers tell MikeSouth.com that Shy Love, the expatriate American porn star, tax cheat, and owner of unlicensed “talent agency” The VIP Connect, trafficked them into the United States under the pretense of getting them adult film work. More about Sheelagh […]

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