On AlterNet: prostitution
Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "prostitution"
JoAnn Wypijewski, The Nation. October 17, 2008.
Lesson from the crash: for the rich, happiness used to be an expensive erection away. Now, everybody's fucked.
Rita Nakashima Brock, On The Issues Magazine. October 3, 2008.
The decriminalization of prostitution is one feminist strategy for helping women lead better lives.
Mark Benjamin, Ms. Magazine. September 29, 2008.
The "D.C. Madam" took a prostitution rap, then took her own life. But her alleged johns walked away uncensured and unscathed.
Carol Leigh, On The Issues Magazine. September 12, 2008.
The issue of prostitution reveals deep rifts within feminism.
Ariel Dougherty, On The Issues Magazine. September 5, 2008.
Is a film about prostitution made in 1986 relevant to the realities of sex work today?
Amelia, The Frisky AlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. August 2, 2008.
The pros and cons of decriminalization and legalization.
Amelia, The Frisky. July 30, 2008.
The pros and cons of decriminalization and legalization.
Danielle Toppin, RH Reality Check. July 9, 2008.
Decriminalizing and regulating prostitution will help protect the lives and liberties of sex workers.
Melissa Ditmore, RH Reality Check. May 10, 2008.
There are big differences between women trafficked into sexual slavery and voluntary sex workers. So why are we treating them the same?
Kari Lydersen, AlterNet. May 8, 2008.
New legislation could expand the definition of trafficking to treat many sex workers as crime victims instead of criminals.
Carolina Austria, RH Reality Check. April 10, 2008.
HIV prevention programs must be based on more expansive views of sexuality -- particularly when it comes to sex work.
ZP Heller, AlterNet AlterNet: Video. April 8, 2008.
Things just keep on getting stickier and stickier for Senator David Vitter.
Jill Filipovic, Feministe AlterNet: PEEK. April 3, 2008.
And here I thought we couldn’t do any better than "Evangelical mega-church preacher does crystal meth with male prostitutes."
Richard Blair, The All Spin Zone AlterNet: PEEK. April 2, 2008.
Hooker. Big Beaver Road. Exit 69. Could a Sen. Debbie Stabenow's husband have possibly been caught in a worse place during a prostitution sting?
Adam Howard, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. March 27, 2008.
Wicked Models promised clients Ivy-league educated women and employed dozens of prostitutes.
Lindsay Beyerstein, AlterNet. March 26, 2008.
As people stop asking "Why did he do it?", now is a good time to ask: Why was the Department of Justice really investigating Eliot Spitzer?
Trish, Pensito Review AlterNet: PEEK. March 23, 2008.
The entire Spitzer scandal is one big exercise in demoralization, but this is just sad.
Annalee Newitz, AlterNet. March 19, 2008.
Eliot Spitzer's decision to pay money for sex was personal. It's not like he issued a policy of mandatory hookers for everybody.
Lindsay Beyerstein, Majikthise AlterNet: PEEK. March 18, 2008.
Spitzer needed to go, but it wasn't the federal government's place to force him out.
Howie Klein, Down With Tyranny! AlterNet: PEEK. March 17, 2008.
Spitzer was tarred, feathered, driven out of office, and now nearly forgotten. Yet Louisiana's, Senatorial Pimp, David Vitter, is still in office
Michael Bader, AlterNet. March 14, 2008.
A psychotherapist explains what might go on in the deeper recesses of the minds of men like Eliot Spitzer.
Audacia Ray, Waking Vixen AlterNet: Sex and Relationships. March 13, 2008.
Sex workers are being abused and manhandled by a media that has no interest in our well being, only in the details of how we got to be so bad.
Amanda Marcotte, Pandagon AlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. March 12, 2008.
I’m not suggesting that the cheated-upon wives should leave their husbands—but this politically calculated cliché needs to be abandoned.
Adam Howard, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. March 12, 2008.
And what about Larry Craig, Dick Morris, John McCain and for the matter, George Bush and Dick Cheney?
Lindsay Beyerstein, Majikthise AlterNet: PEEK. March 12, 2008.
Spitzer has absolutely no excuse. In the current political climate, selective prosecution is a fact of life.
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