Posts Tagged ‘law’
I just wanted to link to this fabulous post by Snowdrop about the problems with these models, especially as Illinois considers this.
As a whore, I just have to say, as happy as I am about not risking a prostitution arrest, the kind of work I do still puts me at risk of an assault charge [...]
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Tags: abolition, end demand, law, sex work
Bust out your Pepto!
Bust out your Pepto because this is going to make you sick. Renegade Evolution posted Donna Hughes’s response to a letter by fifty academics opposing the banning of indoor prostitution in Rhode Island. Other bloggers like Amber Rhea have analyzed Hughes’s letter. (A Feminist View gives an amazing account.) What I find most interesting is [...]
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Tags: feminism, law, sex work, sexism
There was an exotic dance venue in the surburbs busted recently for prostitution. It’s billed as providing one on one time with an exotic dancer. Two women were arrested on charges that they offered sex for sale to an undercover officer. In true, slut-shaming fashion, their pictures and names were published in the news.
It’s disgusting [...]
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Tags: law, news, sex work
Every time I turn around, there’s more bullshit hitting close to home. The sheriff of Cook County is suing Craigslist to crack down on the erotic services section. He claims this will end sex trafficking. Since he’s obviously living under a rock, I’d like to remind him that a recent FBI sting based on Craigslist [...]
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Tags: abolition, craigslist, law, law suit, sex work
Operation Cross Country
For your daily dose of fucked up, I give you Operation Cross Country. SWOP-LV on Bound, not Gagged posted about this. Basically, you have FBI agents arresting sex workers solicited on Craigslist. Ostensibly, they’re targeting child prostitution and trafficking.
The numbers say otherwise. Forty-seven children have been rescued, whereas five hundred eighteen adult sex workers have [...]
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Tags: abolition, law, operation cross country, sex work
Legalese.
I’ve heard some compelling, engaging arguments against sex work and sex workers’ rights in my day, and I’ve heard some not so compelling ones. The one that I think hands down takes the cake for the dumbest argument against sex workers rights is the “but it’s illegal” one.
This demonstrates both a lack of understanding about [...]
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Tags: abolition, law, sex work
There are two things that are symbolic of America (with apologies to my foreign friends): voting and paying taxes. On this election day, of course I am going to encourage everyone to vote. As San Franciscoians decide the fate of the decriminalization bill Prop K, there’s a myth that should be addressed. In the dialogue [...]
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Tags: law, money, sex work
Send a message to the world.
Send a message to the world. Vote YES on San Francisco’s Prop K to decriminalize prositution. Don’t live in San Francisco? Spread the word! Prop K is about protecting human rights, decreasing wasteful and misdirected spending, and valuing the lives of the people who are sex workers and those close to them.
And while you’re at [...]
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Tags: activism, law
A real ballbusting union?
The domination professionals in New York City are striking back. This is in light of recent increasingly frequent raids on BDSM parlors. I have mixed feelings about this. I find it hard to believe that any professional dominant would be unaware that their business is borderline illegal and subject to prosecution under existing prostitution laws.
And [...]
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Tags: activism, law, sex work
Your soul is in your vagina.
For centuries, scientists have quested for the embodied location of the human soul. Clearly, if we have them, they have to exist in our physical bodies, right? Organs like the heart, the liver, and the brain have been studied as possible resting places for our eternal selves. However, it appears that modern day opponents of [...]
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Tags: abolition, kink, law, money, sex work, stigma
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