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March 10: Professor Gail Dines Presents "Supersexed" at Holyoke Community College

Wheelock College professor of sociology and women's studies Dr. Gail Dines makes a special visit to Holyoke Community College tomorrow (directions). The public is invited. Don't miss it!



See also:

June 12-13, 2010: Stop Porn Culture - An International Feminist Anti-Pornography Conference

Gail Dines: "Penn, Porn and Me" (7/1/08)

Gail Dines Presents: Pornography and Pop Culture (explicit)
Here are selected highlights from Dr. Dines' lecture. The complete presentation makes an excellent starting point for any discussion of feminism, media and pornography.

Pornography and Pop Culture


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Posted by NPNAdmin at 3/9/2010 10:41 AM

March 25: Modern Day Slavery - Panel and Discussion in Boston



See also:

Hunt Alternatives Fund: Demand Abolition
Demand Abolition supports the modern-day slavery movement by combating the demand for sex trafficking. By conducting and disseminating research, convening key stakeholders to share best practices, and educating policymakers, Demand Abolition catalyzes systemic social change to reflect the dignity of all people.

National Human Trafficking Resource Center

MSNBC Investigates Human Trafficking and Prostitution in the US; Valley Advocate Advertises "Foreign Fantasies" Where "Everything Goes"

"Trade - A Film Brings Sex Trafficking Home"
Trade makes it clear that traffickers do not operate in a vacuum. Theirs is a complex and determined industry, enslaving both women and children through coercion, violence, and drugs. It is painfully apparent in the film that there are often moments when everyday people could intervene - but choose not to...

Gloria Steinem at Smith: Cooperation, Not Domination
...there are more slaves in proportion to the world’s population--more people held by force or coercion without benefit from their work--more now than there were in the 1800s. Sex trafficking, labor trafficking, children and adults forced into armies: they all add up to a global human-trafficking industry that is more profitable than the arms trade, and second only to the drug trade. The big difference now from the 1800s is that the United Nations estimates that 80% of those who are enslaved are women and children...

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Posted by NPNAdmin at 3/5/2010 3:58 PM

March 9: Legislative Trials and Triumphs in Combating Demand for Commercial Sex

From 3:00-4:30pm on March 9 (US Eastern time), The Comparative Urban Studies Project of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars will make available a live webcast of conduct its second discussion in the Demand Dynamics of Sex Trafficking Speaker Series co-sponsored by Hunt Alternatives Fund. To learn more about this event or to attend in person in Washington, DC, please email cusp@wilsoncenter.org or call 202-691-4289.

This event was originally scheduled for a live webcast, but it appears the webcast slot at the Woodrow Wilson Center has been assigned to another event. We do expect to be able to make a video recording of this event available later in March.

Legislative Trials and Triumphs in Combating Demand for Commercial Sex

Taina Bien-Aime, Executive Director, Equality Now; Eleanor Gaetan, Legislative Advisor, Coalition Against Trafficking in Women; Samir Goswami, Policy Director, Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation; Ambassador Swanee Hunt, President, Hunt Alternatives Fund


The panelists in this second meeting of the Demand Dynamics of Sex Trafficking Speaker Series will discuss legislative efforts to stifle the demand for commercial sex. Taina Bien-Aime will discuss legislation in New York, including the Safe Harbour Act and action against Big Apple Tours; Samir Goswami will focus on the Illinois Predator Accountability Act and the End Demand Illinois Campaign; and Eleanor Gaetan will explore federal legislation, particularly the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Acts of 2005 and 2008.


Taina Bien-Aimé is the Executive Director of Equality Now, an international human rights advocacy organization that works to end violence and discrimination against women and girls. With offices in New York, Nairobi and London, issues of concern to Equality Now include rape, domestic violence, female genital mutilation, reproductive rights, trafficking in women and other forms of human rights abuses affecting women. Bien-Aimé was also Director of Business Affairs/Film Acquisitions at HBO and practiced international corporate law at the Wall Street firm, Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton. For close to two decades, Bien-Aimé has provided expert commentary on women’s rights, including sex trafficking, on print media, television, and radio, including the New York Times, AP, Reuters, CNN, NPR, The Glenn Beck Show, and numerous other national and international media outlets. Taina contributed essays to “Becoming Myself: Reflections on Growing Up Female,” edited by Willa Shalit (Hyperion, 2006). Bien-Aimé is also a contributor to The Huffington Post. Taina holds a Juris Doctor from NYU School of Law and a Licence in Political Science from the University of Geneva and the Graduate School of International Studies, Switzerland.

Eleanor Kennelly Gaetan, Ph.D., served for over five years, 2003-2009, as Senior Coordinator of Public Outreach for the State Department’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons. She was senior editor of five Trafficking in Persons Reports and managed congressional relations, including passage of two reauthorizations of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, in 2005 and 2008. Explaining the intrinsic connection between prostitution and sex trafficking was one critical theme around which she developed public education materials at the State Department. Before joining State, she was Senior Democracy Advisr at USAID/Romania where human trafficking was in her portfolio among other democracy issues. Eleanor currently serves as legislative adviser to the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW). Eleanor holds a Ph.D. in comparative politics from University of Maryland and a BA from Yale University.

Samir has extensive organizing, media advocacy and public policy advocacy experience on the issues of criminal justice reform, workforce development, affordable housing and sexual and domestic violence prevention. He currently leads the End Demand, Illinois Campaign a grassroots effort to transform the state's response to prostitution and sex trafficking. While he was on the policy staff at the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless (1999 - 2008), he founded the Prostitution Alternatives Round Table and organized survivors of prostitution, community based and social service organizations, faith based institutions and worked with corrections, city, county and state officials and law makers to advocate for policy reforms to assist persons involved in prostitution and trafficking.

Samir Goswami was a lead advocate in passage of the 2002 Cook County Residential Treatment and Transition Center for Women (ILPA 92-0806), the 2003 Criminal Record Sealing Act (ILPA 93-1084) and the 2007 First Offender Probation Act (ILPA 95-0255). Samir was also the lead lobbyist and organizer for the Predator Accountability Act, (ILPA 94-0998) and assisted in successful legislative, organizing and media advocacy towards creating the 2005 Rental Housing Support Act (ILPA 94-0118) and the 1999 Homelessness Prevention Act which have resulted in millions more state dollars for the creation of affordable housing and homelessness prevention programs in Illinois. Samir is a 2010 Chicago Community Trust Fellow, a 2010 Chicago Foundation for Women Impact Award Honoree and a recipient of BPI's 40 Who've Made a Differnce Award. Samir is a board member of Career Advancement Network and Chicago Legal Advocacy for Incarcerated Mothers.

Amb. Swanee Hunt, Eleanor Roosevelt Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard, chairs the Washington-based Institute for Inclusive Security, which conducts research, training, and advocacy to integrate women into peace processes worldwide. She is core faculty at the Center for Public Leadership and senior advisor to the Carr Center for Human Rights Public Policy and its Initiative to Stop Human Trafficking, both at the Kennedy School of Government. President of Hunt Alternatives Fund, author and activist, Dr. Hunt has drawn international attention to modern-day slavery. From 1993 to 1997, she served as President Clinton’s ambassador to Austria, when she hosted negotiations to end the Balkan war and led the US delegation to the EU conference on trafficking.


See also:

Sweden's Prostitution Solution: Why Hasn't Anyone Tried This Before?

Abolishing Prostitution: The Swedish Solution - An Interview with Gunilla Ekberg by the Rain and Thunder Collective 

Hunt Alternatives Fund: Demand Abolition

Why Do Johns Buy Sex?

Dorchen Leidholdt, "Demand and the Debate"
Unlike prostituted women and girls, prostitution customers do have choices to make. And when they see that choosing to buy women devastates lives and threatens their own freedom and social standing, they make different choices...

CNN.com: "'John schools' try to change attitudes about paid sex"

Guardian: "Why men use prostitutes" (1/15/10)
... most of them told the researchers that they would be easily deterred if the current laws were implemented. Fines, public exposure, employers being informed, being issued with an Asbo [Anti-Social Behaviour Order] or the risk of a criminal record would stop most of the men from continuing to pay for sex. Discovering the women were trafficked, pimped or otherwise coerced would appear not to be so effective. Almost half said they believed that most women in prostitution are victims of pimps ("the pimp does the ­psychological raping of the woman," explained one). But they still continued to visit them...

Half of the interviewees had bought sex outside of the UK, mostly in Amsterdam, and visiting an area where prostitution is legal or openly advertised had given them a renewed dedication to buying sex when they returned to the UK... 

How to Deter Johns from Buying Sex
...some 89% would stop using prostitutes if "named and shamed" on the sex offenders' register.

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Posted by NPNAdmin at 3/4/2010 10:28 AM

June 12-13: Stop Porn Culture - An International Feminist Anti-Pornography Conference

We are pleased to publicize this event from Stop Porn Culture:

Stop Porn Culture:
An International Feminist Anti-Pornography Conference
June 12-13, 2010
Wheelock College, Boston MA

In March 2007, over 500 people gathered at a conference in Boston to help re-ignite a progressive and feminist movement against pornography. Our second national conference will once again bring together activists, academics, researchers, survivors, parents, and other concerned community members to continue developing our anti-pornography analysis and building our resistance movement. Come and join us for two days of keynotes, workshops, and discussion. Speakers include Wendy Maltz, Gail Dines, Chyng Sun, Rebecca Whisnant, Jane Caputi, Sharon Cooper, Robert Jensen, and Carolyn West.

Presentations and workshops include:
  • The pornification of our culture
  • Racism in pop culture and pornography
  • Local, national, and international organizing
  • Porn and capitalism
  • Legal strategies against porn
  • The sexualization of children
  • Compulsive pornography use
  • Hooking up: the porn culture on campus
For more information and to register please go to: http://stoppornculture.org/conference/


See also:

A Film by Chyng Sun - The Price of Pleasure

Chyng Sun: Rejecting Porn's Hatred of Women Does Not Mean Embracing Government Repression of "Obscenity"

Video Presentation: A Content Analysis of 50 of Today's Top Selling Porn Films (explicit language)

Gail Dines Presents: Pornography and Pop Culture (explicit)

Rebecca Whisnant: "Not Your Father’s Playboy, Not Your Mother’s Feminist Movement" (explicit language)

Robert Jensen: "Just a prude? Feminism, pornography, and men's responsibility"

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Posted by NPNAdmin at 2/25/2010 7:43 PM

Gazette: "Hadley prostitution was linked to sprawling criminal enterprise"

The February 6 and 8 editions of the Daily Hampshire Gazette devote long articles to the cases of Jane's Spa, Hadley Massage Therapy, Chinese Massage and several other area establishments "busted and shut down for prostitution" in late 2009. Two of these articles are cited below. Now if only the Gazette would train its scrutiny on its sister publication down the hall. The ads to the right appear in the February 4 issue of the Valley Advocate.

High probability of immigration issues, human trafficking draws ICE to Hadley
Once they are smuggled in, illegal immigrants are taken to large metropolitan areas, Foucart said, and they start working off their debt.

"They maintain control over these people that way, because they are indebted to them for these charges."

Inspector John Burke of the Albany, N.Y., County Sheriff's Department - who delivered the information on the Hadley massage parlors - said he's seen illegal immigrants who are prostitutes get strung along, with the key to freedom forever out of reach.

Said Foucart: "Sometimes it takes law enforcement such as ICE to free them, and to get them away from these organizations and put them into the proper nongovernment (programs) that'll be able to help them, with clothing and with food and shelter. Generally, a lot of times it takes law enforcement intervention to have that occur."

...Experts say where there's human trafficking, there's prostitution, the sale of unlicensed tobacco, narcotics, gun running, extortion, violence and drugs.

The sex trade, they say, often finances the other crimes.

The Chinese connection: Asian organized crime finally lands in Hampshire County
Prostitution, of course, is another cash cow [for organized crime groups], said Cahillane, the assistant DA.

"What we've learned from other jurisdictions is that typically those types of operations are used to generate income, that they are a moneymaking operation to fund other activities," said Cahillane.

The typical transaction includes $40 to $60 up front for a massage, with another $40 to $60 negotiated for the so-called "happy ending, home run or release," according to law enforcement officials...

Unlike human smuggling, in which immigrants pay their way to cross a border illegally, victims of human trafficking cannot pay, or are kidnapped, and end up forced into slavery or prostitution.

"Every time I've seen it, it's been pretty crappy. A lot of times, they were in a basement. They would just put up a sheet and put a mattress on the floor, and they would just work on and off, on and off, on and off," Burke said.

Burke said that, while the women took in substantial sums, they themselves never had any.


See also:

Asian Transnational Organized Crime and its Impact on the United States (PDF, Submitted to the National Institute of Justice, November 2004)

Sweden's Prostitution Solution: Why Hasn't Anyone Tried This Before?
Sweden's law enforcement community has found that the prostitution legislation benefits them in dealing with all sex crimes, particularly in enabling them to virtually wipe out the element of organized crime that plagues other countries where prostitution has been legalized or regulated.

Letter to Gazette: "Urges Valley Advocate to stop running escort ads" (11/7/09)
The Gazette writes of past suffering in its Oct. 26 editorial, "Slavery's unfinished story," but you can find present-day exploitation in the Gazette's sister publication - the Valley Advocate - and its massage/escort advertising section. Many of these ads appear to involve prostitution...

As reported by the Chicago Tribune in April 2008, a comprehensive 2004 mortality study, conducted by the American Journal of Epidemiology, shows that workplace homicide rates for women working in prostitution are 51 times that of the next most dangerous occupation for women (which is working in a liquor store) and the average age of death of the women studied was 34.

In one study, 75 percent of women in escort prostitution had attempted suicide and prostituted women comprised 15 percent of all completed suicides reported by hospitals...

MSNBC Investigates Human Trafficking and Prostitution in the US; Valley Advocate Advertises "Foreign Fantasies" Where "Everything Goes"

Our Poster to the Valley Advocate: "Stand up for women! Drop your Massage/Escort ads"

Ask the Valley Advocate's New Owner to Drop the Sex Ads

Belltown Messenger: "Greed, Lust and Ink"

Polaris Project: "The Washington Post: A Paper Pimp?" (Part One)

Polaris Project: "The Washington Post: A Paper Pimp?" (Part Two)

"New York Press No Longer Marketing Arm for Prostitution/Trafficking"
Today, trafficking human beings for sexual exploitation, labor, and domestic servitude is the third fastest growing illegal enterprise. The United States is the second highest destination in the world for trafficked women...

Ads provide buyers of commercial sex access to trafficked women...

Another Victory for NOW-NYC: New York Magazine Drops Sex Ads
New York Magazine agreed Tuesday to stop accepting sex ads after the local chapter of a women's rights group threatened protests outside the popular weekly publication...

[NOW-NYC] has been asking other local media to stop taking the salacious ads and said it has won agreements to do so from 14 other publications including Time Out New York and New York Press...

"Trafficking exists because there aren't enough women to do this assembly line brothel work," the president of NOW's New York City chapter, Sonia Ossorio, said. While no one knows exactly how many women are prostituted against their will, it is indisputable that some come to New York with promises of legitimate jobs only to find these don't exist and there's only one way to pay off their debts.

Cincinnati: Coalition asks CityBeat to stop allowing promotion of prostitution through advertising

Orlando Weekly Drops Adult-Services Ads in Wake of Police Sting; "Operation Weekly Shame"

Pasadena Weekly: "Lives for sale"
“They’re always a point of concern,” Pasadena Police Chief Bernard Melekian told the newspaper. “We follow up on them fairly regularly. I have always been surprised that the [Pasadena] Weekly underwrites the exploitation of women to some degree.”

...“Asian Lovers: Best Young Girls in Town,” “Asian Girl: Pretty Apples,” “Grand Opening, Young Asian Cuties,” read several ads that appeared recently in the Weekly...

Ivy Suriyopaf, an attorney with the Asian-American Defense League, said that if an ad is suspicious, newspapers shouldn’t run it.

“Publications have a choice about whether to run certain ads,” said Suriyopaf. “If they have any reason to believe that businesses are conducting illicit activities, they have a social responsibility to report it to the authorities or, at the very least, not run the business’ advertisements.”

Prostitution: Factsheet on Human Rights Violations

Prostitution Research & Education: How Prostitution Works

Valley Advocate: "Erotica: Eden's Dark Side" (9/28/06)
The mafia and its business associates understand the First Amendment, and they know how to push liberals' buttons. They've done it before in this area with dismaying success, recruiting liberal lawyers to help keep notorious Springfield mobster Al Bruno out of jail in the early '90s, to mention one example...

It's a far cry from D.H. Lawrence, from gentle line drawings of women making love with women, to a store front that sets a porn mogul with a history of mafia ties up in the middle of Northampton's Rte. 5 business district. It would be an irony, and not a happy one, for the more elevated arguments in favor of porn to shield the underside of the industry as it would touch down in Northampton, possibly drawing profits to interests quite at odds with the character of this community.

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Posted by NPNAdmin at 2/10/2010 7:37 AM

Springfield Republican Reports on Strippers Lawsuit Against Strip Clubs

The February 5 Springfield Republican reports on a class-action suit filed by exotic dancers against area strip clubs:
A class-action suit filed by exotic dancers over what they say are unfair labor practices at the Mardi Gras and four other area strip clubs parallels a similar suit filed by dancers earlier this year against a club in the city of Chelsea, the lawyer for the Springfield area dancers said Friday...

In August, Suffolk Superior Court Justice Frances A. McIntyre ruled the management of King Arthur’s erroneously classified the dancers as independent contractors. The ruling allows the class action suit to proceed and opened the door for as many as 70 women who danced at the club to seek thousands in damages for lost wages.

Since then, numerous similar suits have been filed against strip clubs across the state...

In Massachusetts, a worker is considered an employee unless three conditions are met. The worker must be free from control and direction in the performance of a service, the service is done outside the usual course of business of the employer, and the worker is engaged in an independently established trade that is the same as the service performed...


See also:

Springfield Republican: "Strippers sue 5 Western Mass. nightclubs saying they denied them standard worker benefits" (2/4/10)
A group of exotic dancers has filed an unfair wages lawsuit in Hampden Superior Court against officers of five area strip clubs, arguing owners paid them no salaries, expected $40 to $100 kickbacks per shift and otherwise denied them standard worker benefits...

[The clubs are:] the Mardi Gras, Lace, Fifth Alarm and Center Stage, all in Springfield, and Anthony's Dance Club in South Hadley...

Cochran said “the girls” at the five area clubs had to agree not to perform anywhere else, had to conform to owners’ standards of wardrobe and music and follow other rules – all of which discount them from the contractor category.

Springfield Republican: "Strip clubs need Sarno ultimatum" (11/19/09)
After two murders and countless testosterone and booze-laced disturbances, Springfield’s strip clubs have presented the city’s License Commission with a plan to bolster security...

We have said in the past that the city should shut the clubs down because of the trouble they attract.

Sarno himself has said the clubs have given Springfield a black eye, and state police have called them a disgrace to the city.

Springfield Republican Reports on Strip Clubs and the Mafia (7/8/07)

Strip Clubs: Dancers Pay to Work There
...the girls who work there, the dancers...pay $150 to $200 a shift for the privilege of working... I asked one guy in the business, "What's the biggest risk to your business model?" He said if the government stops immigration from Eastern Europe.

Profitable Exploits: Lap Dancing in the UK
The private dance is the only legitimate way for the dancers to make money in the clubs. The intermittent ‘cabaret’, and individual pole dances by selected dancers that take place in the main club area, serve only to advertise the dancers and entertain customers. The dancers are not paid for these activities... There is no guarantee, even on busy nights, that the dancers will earn enough to cover their costs, let alone generate income...

None of the dancers interviewed in the Glasgow clubs were satisfied with their working conditions... There were no water coolers or fridges in which to keep drinks, even though this is a condition of the license for Seventh Heaven, Diamond Dolls and The Truffle Club. As a result, the dancers have to purchase drinks from the bar at full price...

All dancers in lap-dance clubs are self-employed, relying on tips and income from private dances. Dancers pay between £35 and £100 per night to the club management for ‘rent’ of the facilities[40], such as the poles, cabaret areas, private dance booths and VIP suites. Weekend rates are higher... All of the women interviewed reported that they had often lost money by working at the club when their earnings failed to cover rent, clothing, travel, drinks and childcare. Some club owners allow debt to accumulate, which can leave the dancers desperate to ‘catch up’...

In addition to daily expenses, dancers at the four Glasgow clubs, and Spearmint Rhino, London, are advised to purchase specialist clothing from an individual visiting the club who runs her own business[41]. In at least one club, the women are explicitly told that they should not buy clothes from anywhere else or make their own, in case they do not fit the ‘house style’. Most clubs also specify particular shoes that several of the women refer to as ‘porn shoes’. They are tall platforms with spiked heels that are apparently ‘very uncomfortable’ to dance in...

Two of the dancers stated that management regularly chose their outfits, and that they were given no choice about wearing them. “I have two children, who I have to support by doing this. I feel really yucky prancing around in a school uniform, because I feel I’m encouraging perverts who come to the club to abuse children”...

...This study has revealed the complex process and set of conditions in which dancers become more susceptible to requests or suggestions to sell sex. The lack of employment rights, for some women the experience of accumulating debt, expectations of the customers, fierce competition, and a link in public perceptions between lap dancer and stripper/prostitute, create an overall climate where the selling and buying of sex on the premises becomes more likely...

...club owners tend to absolve themselves of any responsibility if sexual services are found to be on occurring or being arranged on the premises, yet at the same time there is some indication that they encourage the dancers to project an air of sexual availability to customers. By making it difficult for the dancers to earn an adequate living legitimately, through requiring the payment of ‘rent’ for each shift worked in the clubs, and by hiring excess numbers of dancers at any one time, club owners and managers also create a series of structural conditions that can lead some dancers to offer sexual services in order to survive financially. This is not to say that there is evidence of significant numbers of dancers engaging in prostitution activities, but that the clubs are run in a way that both implicitly encourages the customers to seek sexual services from the dancers, and means that some dancers will offer them...

Strip Club Tips: How to Savor an Exquisite Blend of Fantasies, Lies, Exploitation and Despair (explicit language)



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Posted by NPNAdmin at 2/6/2010 4:54 PM

Bulletin from Stop Porn Culture: June 12-13 Conference in Boston

We are pleased to share this bulletin from Stop Porn Culture:
Hello everyone,

We have a lot of exciting news here at Stop Porn Culture.

Our new website is up and running. Take a look at www.stoppornculture.org. We have an "Anti-porn News" feature to keep everyone updated on pornography in the news. You can send us news articles for possible inclusion, including news about activism against pornography.

We had a wonderful slideshow training in Bellingham this month, with 30 committed and amazing participants. It looks like our first local chapter has formed--SPC Bellingham. We encourage you all to try something similar where you live. None of us can do this work alone. Guidelines for local chapters will be up on our website soon.

We are also planning our next conference, which will take place in June.

Stop Porn Culture: An International Feminist Anti-Pornography Conference
June 12-13, 2010
Wheelock College, Boston MA

Our second national conference will bring together activists, researchers, survivors, parents, and other concerned community members to continue developing our anti-pornography analysis and building our resistance movement. Come and join us for two days of keynotes, workshops, and discussion. Speakers include Wendy Maltz, Gail Dines, Chyng Sun, Rebecca Whisnant, Jane Caputi, Sharon Cooper, Robert Jensen, and Carolyn West.

Presentations and workshops include:
  • The pornification of our culture
  • Racism in pop culture and pornography
  • Local, national, and international organizing
  • Porn and capitalism
  • Legal strategies against porn
  • The sexualization of children
  • Compulsive pornography use
  • Hooking up: the porn culture on campus
For more information, or to register, go to http://stoppornculture.org/conference/. Feel free to post this announcement anywhere that you go on the web.

As ever, we're happy to bring the slideshow training to anyone who can host us. Drop me a line here and I'll tell you what's involved.

We hope to see you all in June!

Lierre for SPC

See also:

A Film by Chyng Sun - The Price of Pleasure

Chyng Sun: Rejecting Porn's Hatred of Women Does Not Mean Embracing Government Repression of "Obscenity"

Video Presentation: A Content Analysis of 50 of Today's Top Selling Porn Films (explicit language)

Gail Dines Presents: Pornography and Pop Culture (explicit)

Rebecca Whisnant: "Not Your Father’s Playboy, Not Your Mother’s Feminist Movement" (explicit language)

Robert Jensen: "Just a prude? Feminism, pornography, and men's responsibility"

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Posted by NPNAdmin at 1/28/2010 12:25 PM

The Case for Marriage, Gay and Straight

Reprinted by kind permission of JendiReiter.com:

Ted Olson Makes the Conservative Case for Gay Marriage

Prominent trial lawyers David Boies and Theodore Olson are arguing the unconstitutionality of Proposition 8 in California federal court this week, in the case of Perry v. Schwarzenegger. Day-by-day trial coverage is available on the Firedoglake blog and the Courage Campaign website. Meanwhile, Newsweek recently interviewed both the liberal Boies and the conservative Olson to explain why their support for gays' civil rights transcends left-right politics. Olson's comments represent the best of that libertarian tradition that has sadly been drowned out by theocratic social conservatives during the past decade of GOP ascendancy. An excerpt:

...The United States Supreme Court has repeatedly held that marriage is one of the most fundamental rights that we have as Americans under our Constitution. It is an expression of our desire to create a social partnership, to live and share life's joys and burdens with the person we love, and to form a lasting bond and a social identity. The Supreme Court has said that marriage is a part of the Constitution's protections of liberty, privacy, freedom of association, and spiritual identification. In short, the right to marry helps us to define ourselves and our place in a community. Without it, there can be no true equality under the law.

It is true that marriage in this nation traditionally has been regarded as a relationship exclusively between a man and a woman, and many of our nation's multiple religions define marriage in precisely those terms. But while the Supreme Court has always previously considered marriage in that context, the underlying rights and liberties that marriage embodies are not in any way confined to heterosexuals.

Marriage is a civil bond in this country as well as, in some (but hardly all) cases, a religious sacrament. It is a relationship recognized by governments as providing a privileged and respected status, entitled to the state's support and benefits. The California Supreme Court described marriage as a "union unreservedly approved and favored by the community." Where the state has accorded official sanction to a relationship and provided special benefits to those who enter into that relationship, our courts have insisted that withholding that status requires powerful justifications and may not be arbitrarily denied.

What, then, are the justifications for California's decision in Proposition 8 to withdraw access to the institution of marriage for some of its citizens on the basis of their sexual orientation? The reasons I have heard are not very persuasive.

The explanation mentioned most often is tradition. But simply because something has always been done a certain way does not mean that it must always remain that way. Otherwise we would still have segregated schools and debtors' prisons. Gays and lesbians have always been among us, forming a part of our society, and they have lived as couples in our neighborhoods and communities. For a long time, they have experienced discrimination and even persecution; but we, as a society, are starting to become more tolerant, accepting, and understanding. California and many other states have allowed gays and lesbians to form domestic partnerships (or civil unions) with most of the rights of married heterosexuals. Thus, gay and lesbian individuals are now permitted to live together in state-sanctioned relationships. It therefore seems anomalous to cite "tradition" as a justification for withholding the status of marriage and thus to continue to label those relationships as less worthy, less sanctioned, or less legitimate.

The second argument I often hear is that traditional marriage furthers the state's interest in procreation—and that opening marriage to same-sex couples would dilute, diminish, and devalue this goal. But that is plainly not the case. Preventing lesbians and gays from marrying does not cause more heterosexuals to marry and conceive more children. Likewise, allowing gays and lesbians to marry someone of the same sex will not discourage heterosexuals from marrying a person of the opposite sex. How, then, would allowing same-sex marriages reduce the number of children that heterosexual couples conceive?

This procreation argument cannot be taken seriously. We do not inquire whether heterosexual couples intend to bear children, or have the capacity to have children, before we allow them to marry. We permit marriage by the elderly, by prison inmates, and by persons who have no intention of having children. What's more, it is pernicious to think marriage should be limited to heterosexuals because of the state's desire to promote procreation. We would surely not accept as constitutional a ban on marriage if a state were to decide, as China has done, to discourage procreation.

Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples? Tellingly, when the judge in our case asked our opponent to identify the ways in which same-sex marriage would harm heterosexual marriage, to his credit he answered honestly: he could not think of any.

The simple fact is that there is no good reason why we should deny marriage to same-sex partners. On the other hand, there are many reasons why we should formally recognize these relationships and embrace the rights of gays and lesbians to marry and become full and equal members of our society.

No matter what you think of homosexuality, it is a fact that gays and lesbians are members of our families, clubs, and workplaces. They are our doctors, our teachers, our soldiers (whether we admit it or not), and our friends. They yearn for acceptance, stable relationships, and success in their lives, just like the rest of us.

Conservatives and liberals alike need to come together on principles that surely unite us. Certainly, we can agree on the value of strong families, lasting domestic relationships, and communities populated by persons with recognized and sanctioned bonds to one another. Confining some of our neighbors and friends who share these same values to an outlaw or second-class status undermines their sense of belonging and weakens their ties with the rest of us and what should be our common aspirations. Even those whose religious convictions preclude endorsement of what they may perceive as an unacceptable "lifestyle" should recognize that disapproval should not warrant stigmatization and unequal treatment.

When we refuse to accord this status to gays and lesbians, we discourage them from forming the same relationships we encourage for others. And we are also telling them, those who love them, and society as a whole that their relationships are less worthy, less legitimate, less permanent, and less valued. We demean their relationships and we demean them as individuals. I cannot imagine how we benefit as a society by doing so.

I understand, but reject, certain religious teachings that denounce homosexuality as morally wrong, illegitimate, or unnatural; and I take strong exception to those who argue that same-sex relationships should be discouraged by society and law. Science has taught us, even if history has not, that gays and lesbians do not choose to be homosexual any more than the rest of us choose to be heterosexual. To a very large extent, these characteristics are immutable, like being left-handed. And, while our Constitution guarantees the freedom to exercise our individual religious convictions, it equally prohibits us from forcing our beliefs on others. I do not believe that our society can ever live up to the promise of equality, and the fundamental rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, until we stop invidious discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.

If we are born heterosexual, it is not unusual for us to perceive those who are born homosexual as aberrational and threatening. Many religions and much of our social culture have reinforced those impulses. Too often, that has led to prejudice, hostility, and discrimination. The antidote is understanding, and reason. We once tolerated laws throughout this nation that prohibited marriage between persons of different races. California's Supreme Court was the first to find that discrimination unconstitutional. The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously agreed 20 years later, in 1967, in a case called Loving v. Virginia. It seems inconceivable today that only 40 years ago there were places in this country where a black woman could not legally marry a white man. And it was only 50 years ago that 17 states mandated segregated public education—until the Supreme Court unanimously struck down that practice in Brown v. Board of Education. Most Americans are proud of these decisions and the fact that the discriminatory state laws that spawned them have been discredited. I am convinced that Americans will be equally proud when we no longer discriminate against gays and lesbians and welcome them into our society....

I can almost forgive the guy for helping George W. Bush get elected...

Read more of Newsweek's trial coverage here. Offering another good sign that the Right is splintering on this issue, Cindy and Meghan McCain, the wife and daughter of 2008 Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain (R, Ariz.), posed for promotional photos for the NO H8 website--despite the fact that the senator himself opposes gay marriage. Score one for feminism.


See also:

MSNBC's Keith Olbermann Speaks Out Against Prop 8
You want to sanctify marriage? You want to honor your God and the universal love you believe he represents? Then Spread happiness--this tiny, symbolic, semantical grain of happiness--share it with all those who seek it.

Press Release: "NoPornNorthampton Offers 500,000+ Words of Innovative Porn-Fighting Power" (11/25/07)
NoPornNorthampton does not support increased government censorship of media. It promotes the concept of "green sexuality". This sustainable sexuality is characterized by durable, mutually respectful relationships that enhance the lives of the lovers and the wider world. Green sexuality is a union between two equals, embracing both heterosexual and homosexual bonds but excluding polygamy, adult-child sexual relations and bestiality.

Steve and Cokie Roberts Report on Marriage: A Good Idea that Refuses to Die

Wall Street Journal: "What's at the Heart of Happiness?"
"Marriage provides two sources of happiness," says Andrew Oswald, an economics professor at England's Warwick University. "One is sex and the other is friendship. Marriage has one of the largest impacts on human well-being..."

Marriage is Undersold in America

A Response to "marriage is an outdated practice"

The Impact of Internet Pornography on Marriage and the Family: A Review of the Research
...according to data from the General Social Survey in 2000 (N = 531), people who report being happily married are 61 percent less likely to report using Internet pornography compared to those who also used the Internet and who had completed the General Social Survey in 2000...

...the following observations were made by [the 350 attendees of the November 2002 meeting of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers] polled with regard to why the Internet had played a role in divorces that year...56 percent of the divorce cases involved one party having an obsessive interest in pornographic websites...

Whitty (2003) also found that both men and women perceive online sexual activity as an act of betrayal that is as authentic and real as offline acts and that Internet pornography use correlated significantly with emotional infidelity (N = 1,117; 468 males and 649 females)...

A New Category Debuts: Love and Beauty
Our new category, Love and Beauty, will show how sex, love, relationships and people can be so much more than the narrow, blinkered version that porn offers. Watching porn instead of seeking a loving relationship with a real person is like being given a gorgeous race car that can go 200 miles per hour, only to drive it backwards down the highway at a crawl and scrape it against railings and bridge abutments.

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Guardian: "Why men use prostitutes"

From the January 15 Guardian, Julie Bindel continues her outstanding coverage of this subject. This article is based on an international study of 700 men who buy sex:
Why men use prostitutes

Research published in 2005 found that the numbers of men who pay for sex had doubled in a decade...

... most of them told the researchers that they would be ­easily deterred if the current laws were implemented. Fines, public ­exposure, employers being informed, being issued with an Asbo [Anti-Social Behaviour Order] or the risk of a criminal record would stop most of the men from continuing to pay for sex. Discovering the women were ­trafficked, pimped or otherwise coerced would appear not to be so ­effective. Almost half said they ­believed that most women in prostitution are victims of pimps ("the pimp does the ­psychological raping of the woman," explained one). But they still continued to visit them...

Half of the interviewees had bought sex outside of the UK, mostly in Amsterdam, and visiting an area where prostitution is legal or openly advertised had given them a renewed dedication to buying sex when they returned to the UK...

Only 6% of the men we spoke to had been arrested for soliciting ­prostitutes.

See also:

Sweden's Prostitution Solution: Why Hasn't Anyone Tried This Before?
In the fog of clichés despairing that "prostitution will always be with us", one country's success stands out as a beacon lighting the way. In just five years Sweden has dramatically reduced the number of women in prostitution. In the capital city of Stockholm, the number of women in street prostitution has been reduced by two thirds, and the number of "johns" has been reduced by 80%...

In 1999, after years of research and study, Sweden passed legislation that a) criminalizes the buying of sex, and b) decriminalizes the selling of sex...

In the state of Victoria, Australia, where a system of legalized, regulated brothels was established, there was such an explosion in the number of brothels that it immediately overwhelmed the system's ability to regulate them, and just as quickly these brothels became mired in organized crime, corruption, and related crimes. In addition, surveys of the prostitutes working under systems of legalization and regulation find that the prostitutes themselves continue to feel coerced, forced, and unsafe in the business.

A survey of legal prostitutes working under the conditions of the Netherlands legalization policy finds that 79% say they want to get out of the sex business. And though each of the legalization/regulation programs promised help for prostitutes who want to leave prostitution, that help never materialized to any meaningful degree. In contrast, in Sweden, the government followed through with ample social service funds to help those prostitutes who wanted to get out. Sixty percent of the prostitutes in Sweden took advantage of the well-funded programs and succeeded in exiting prostitution.

Abolishing Prostitution: The Swedish Solution - An Interview with Gunilla Ekberg by the Rain and Thunder Collective

Hunt Alternatives Fund: Demand Abolition

Not For Sale Media Project; Downloadable Posters



Why Do Johns Buy Sex?

Dorchen Leidholdt, "Demand and the Debate"
Unlike prostituted women and girls, prostitution customers do have choices to make. And when they see that choosing to buy women devastates lives and threatens their own freedom and social standing, they make different choices...

CNN.com: "'John schools' try to change attitudes about paid sex"
Some evidence suggests that John Schools are working. A study released in 2008 by Abt Associates Inc. for the federal government looked at the John School program in San Francisco, California. It's one of the largest programs in the country; more than 7,000 johns have attended since 1995.

According to the study, the re-arrest rate fell sharply after the school was launched, and stayed more than 30 percent lower for 10 years afterward...

A recent study by the Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation conducted among johns in Chicago, Illinois, found that 41 percent of them said John School would deter them from buying sex, compared with 92 percent who said being placed on a sex offender registry would scare them from re-offending...

Newsweek: "A School for Johns"

PBS: "John Schools" (5/30/08)

Media Watch: "Censored Truth"

How to Deter Johns from Buying Sex
...some 89% would stop using prostitutes if "named and shamed" on the sex offenders' register.

The Guardian, "Ending a trade in misery"

The Guardian, "Eradicate the oldest profession"

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National Human Trafficking Awareness Day

January 11 is National Human Trafficking Awareness Day. 80% of transnational victims of human trafficking are women and girls. Visit the Polaris Project's page on Change.org to get informed and help pass anti-trafficking legislation.

The Reverend Elizabeth Kaeton, an Episcopal priest in New Jersey, blogs at Telling Secrets about social justice and feminist issues in the church. Her Jan. 8 post, "The Unholy War Against Women", calls on religious leaders to devote more resources to protecting women's human rights:
The stories are horrific. Difficult to imagine. Impossible to understand.

Consider: A report from Amnesty International finds that rape and other forms of sexual violence in Darfur are being used as a weapon of war in order to humiliate, punish, control, inflict fear and displace women and their communities.

These rapes and other acts of sexual violence constitute grave violations of international human rights and humanitarian law, including war crimes and crimes against humanity. The report also examines the consequences of rape which have immediate and long-term effects on women beyond the actual physical violence.

The weapons of sexual violence are, by no means, limited to use in Darfur. You'll find reports of "rape camps" in Bosnia. Congo. Sierra Leon. Iraq. Afghanistan. China. Japan. Cambodia.

Name a war-torn country and you will find places where rape is the norm and its victims - some as young as 3 years old - are dying a slow death of the physical, psychological and social effects of the aftermath of this violence.

Some of them have been genitally mutilated. Some raped with broken bottles or sticks or guns. Some now have permanent colostomies.

Others have permanent fistulas which seep fecal matter through their torn vaginal vaults, causing a stench that isolates them socially. They await a doctor's surgical repair - which may take years for one to come near her village - or for the woman to find the strength to walk the many, many miles to the clinic to see a doctor.

They eke out a living after their husbands leave them. They try to love the child who came into being as a result of the rape. There are other "gifts" left by their rapists: STDs and TB, HIV infection and AIDS.

Some of them simply "stop living" and walk as "the living dead."

On June 20, 2008 the UN Security Council unanimously approved a resolution classifying rape as a weapon of war. Human rights groups hailed the vote as historic, but it is no legal remedy. Tens of thousands of victims of sexual violence still do not have the status of victims of the war.

Consider: Hundreds of girls, some as young as nine, and young women in the UK are forced into marriage each year, according to the report published by the Ministry of Justice into the first year of the Forced Marriage (Civil Protection) Act of 2007.

The report says the women and girls come under physical, psychological, sexual, financial and emotional pressure.

“A woman who is forced into marriage is likely to be raped and may be raped repeatedly until she becomes pregnant,” the report says.

Consider: The New Canaan camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Kenya is named to sound like a promised land, but for many of the women living inside, it is anything but paradise.

That's because increasingly, women living in this and other refugee camps in Kenya and throughout Africa are faced with a terrible choice: feed themselves and their families via prostitution or risk starvation and death.

Consider: While South Africa invests billions to prepare its infrastructure for the half-million visitors expected to attend the World Cup games, tens of thousands of children have become ensnared in sexual slavery, and those who profit from their abuse are also preparing for the tournament.

During a three-week investigation by a Times reporter into human-trafficking syndicates operating near two stadiums, a lucrative trade in child sex was easily discovered. The children, sold for as little as $45, can earn more than $600 per night for their captors. "I'm really looking forward to doing more business during the World Cup," said a trafficker.

I'm willing to bet that this man, like the other pimps and soldiers and rapists, has a mother. He may have sisters. He may even have a wife.

What happened to the boy who was nursed by his mother? The brother who played with his siblings? The husband and father of his family?

A 'trafficker' sounds like a blue collar job. A 'soldier' has always meant a person of honor. A rapist? Well, the name has always carried its own dishonor.

How did the transformation from human being to monster begin?

We have new, political terms for what is happening to women, world-wide:

Human Trafficking.

The New Slave Trade.

New Weapons of War.

I call it The Unholy War Against Women.

Nothing new about it.

It's as old as sin.

And, becoming a world-wide pandemic, infecting the soul of the cosmos.

This quote from the Times article illustrates that this war is a multinational business operation:
Although its 1996 constitution expressly forbids slavery, South Africa has no stand-alone law against human trafficking in all its forms.

Aid groups estimate that some 38,000 children are trapped in the sex trade there. More than 500 mostly small-scale trafficking syndicates — Nigerian, Chinese, Indian and Russian, among others — collude with South African partners, including recruiters and corrupt police officials, to enslave local victims.

The country's estimated 1.4 million AIDS orphans are especially vulnerable. South Africa has more HIV cases than any other nation, and a child sold into its sex industry will often face an early grave.


On a related note, in January 9's New York Times, Nicholas Kristof wrote about The Elders, a council of retired leaders headed by Nelson Mandela, who are targeting the ways in which religion is used to bolster discrimination against women:
Religions derive their power and popularity in part from the ethical compass they offer. So why do so many faiths help perpetuate something that most of us regard as profoundly unethical: the oppression of women?

It is not that warlords in Congo cite Scripture to justify their mass rapes (although the last warlord I met there called himself a pastor and wore a button reading “rebels for Christ”). It’s not that brides are burned in India as part of a Hindu ritual. And there’s no verse in the Koran that instructs Afghan thugs to throw acid in the faces of girls who dare to go to school.

Yet these kinds of abuses — along with more banal injustices, like slapping a girlfriend or paying women less for their work — arise out of a social context in which women are, often, second-class citizens. That’s a context that religions have helped shape, and not pushed hard to change.

“Women are prevented from playing a full and equal role in many faiths, creating an environment in which violations against women are justified,” former President Jimmy Carter noted in a speech last month to the Parliament of the World’s Religions in Australia.

“The belief that women are inferior human beings in the eyes of God,” Mr. Carter continued, “gives excuses to the brutal husband who beats his wife, the soldier who rapes a woman, the employer who has a lower pay scale for women employees, or parents who decide to abort a female embryo.”

Mr. Carter, who sees religion as one of the “basic causes of the violation of women’s rights,” is a member of The Elders, a small council of retired leaders brought together by Nelson Mandela. The Elders are focusing on the role of religion in oppressing women, and they have issued a joint statement calling on religious leaders to “change all discriminatory practices within their own religions and traditions.”

The Elders are neither irreligious nor rabble-rousers. They include Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and they begin their meetings with a moment for silent prayer.

“The Elders are not attacking religion as such,” noted Mary Robinson, the former president of Ireland and United Nations high commissioner for human rights. But she added, “We all recognized that if there’s one overarching issue for women it’s the way that religion can be manipulated to subjugate women.”


Read the whole article here.


See also:

Breaking Free Press Release: National Human Trafficking Awareness Day (1/11/10)
  • The UN estimates that at least 27 million poeple are enslaved in the world today. This is more than at ANY other time in history.
  • 80% of humans sold as slaves today are women and girls
  • 50% are children
  • Human Trafficking is the fastest growing black market trade on the planet.
National Human Trafficking Resource Center

Columbus Dispatch: "Horror of Teen Sex Slavery Not Foreign Woe; It's Here" (1/25/09)
"I can't describe to you the feeling of terror. No child should ever have to know that kind of fear. I didn't know what I was going to have to endure that night, for how long, or if I was going to come back home."

What started innocently with Flores' infatuation with an older male classmate turned to date rape caught on film by some of the rapist's friends. They used the photos to blackmail the girl into sexual slavery that lasted two years and involved hundreds of men.

Testimony in Minneapolis: Prostitutes Blackmailed with Porn

Escort Prostitution: A Response to Tom Vannah, Editor of the Valley Advocate
Mr. Vannah concedes that "there is some percentage of people who are not willing participants in the sex industry", but believes that if the Advocate refuses to accept Massage/Escort ads, this will unacceptably crimp "artistic freedom". He mentions Mapplethorpe pictures as an example. How dropping ads for commercial sex enterprises will compel the Advocate to turn away Mapplethorpe pictures is not clear to us...

Letter to Gazette: "Urges Valley Advocate to stop running escort ads"
In an interview on WHMP radio in March 2008, Valley Advocate editor Tom Vannah argued that most prostituted women freely choose their "job," but the reality is that most feel trapped by poverty, abuse, addiction and coercion. The harm, trauma and despair are all too evident. It's time for the Advocate to exit the escort business.

Our Poster to the Valley Advocate: "Stand up for women! Drop your Massage/Escort ads"

MSNBC Investigates Human Trafficking and Prostitution in the US; Valley Advocate Advertises "Foreign Fantasies" Where "Everything Goes"

Not For Sale Media Project; Downloadable Posters

Polaris Project: "The Washington Post: A Paper Pimp?" (Part One)
The women are often offered legitimate jobs, but then forced into prostitution. Many are unable to leave the location and moved between brothels by transporters within the trafficking network. There have several who were threatened with gang violence, harm to family members at home, and abduction of children if they tried to leave. Some women were in debt bondage. Most had experienced some type of sexual violence or coercion from customers frequenting the brothels. All desired to escape their circumstances if they had adequate opportunities.

Polaris Project: "The Washington Post: A Paper Pim? (Part Two)"

Prostitution: Factsheet on Human Rights Violations (explicit language)
In one study, 75% of women in escort prostitution had attempted suicide. Prostituted women comprised 15% of all completed suicides reported by hospitals...

Pornography Trains and Indoctrinates Prostitutes
In a study of 475 people in prostitution (including women, men, and the transgendered) from five countries (South Africa, Thailand, Turkey, USA, and Zambia)...92% stated that they wanted to escape prostitution immediately...

S.M. Berg: Hey, progressives! Cathouse got your tongue?

"Trade - A Film Brings Sex Trafficking Home"
Trade makes it clear that traffickers do not operate in a vacuum. Theirs is a complex and determined industry, enslaving both women and children through coercion, violence, and drugs. It is painfully apparent in the film that there are often moments when everyday people could intervene - but choose not to...

New York Times: "The Girls Next Door"; Worldwide Sex Trafficking; Role of Porn
Kevin Bales of Free the Slaves says: ''The physical path of a person being trafficked includes stages of degradation of a person's mental state. A victim gets deprived of food, gets hungry, a little dizzy and sleep-deprived. She begins to break down; she can't think for herself. Then take away her travel documents, and you've made her stateless. Then layer on physical violence, and she begins to follow orders. Then add a foreign culture and language, and she's trapped...''

New York Times: "For Runaways, Sex Buys Survival" (10/27/09)

Gloria Steinem at Smith: Cooperation, Not Domination
...there are more slaves in proportion to the world’s population--more people held by force or coercion without benefit from their work--more now than there were in the 1800s. Sex trafficking, labor trafficking, children and adults forced into armies: they all add up to a global human-trafficking industry that is more profitable than the arms trade, and second only to the drug trade. The big difference now from the 1800s is that the United Nations estimates that 80% of those who are enslaved are women and children...

Hunt Alternatives Fund: Demand Abolition
Demand Abolition supports the modern-day slavery movement by combating the demand for sex trafficking. By conducting and disseminating research, convening key stakeholders to share best practices, and educating policymakers, Demand Abolition catalyzes systemic social change to reflect the dignity of all people.

Polaris Project Launches TraffickingResourceCenter.org

Press Release: Action Network to use RNC and Minnesota State Fair to Bring Attention to Problem of Sex Trafficking

Sweden's Prostitution Solution: Why Hasn't Anyone Tried This Before?

Abolishing Prostitution: The Swedish Solution - An Interview with Gunilla Ekberg by the Rain and Thunder Collective

Partners In Health Helps Give Prostituted Women Real Choices in Malawi

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