Sady Doyle, Comment Is Free AlterNet: Sex and Relationships. October 26, 2009. The men behind "Freakonomics" offer a stunningly shallow and flawed view of sex work as a career option for women.
Noy Thrupkaew, The Nation. October 13, 2009. The Philippines suffers from a significant problem with child sex exploitation, but it also provides more fertile ground for US work on anti-trafficking.
David Henry Sterry, R.J. Martin Jr., Soft Skull Press. September 26, 2009. This excerpt from "Hos, Hookers, Call Girls, and Rent Boys: Professionals Writing on Life, Love, Money, and Sex" details what a 17-year-old in 1974 decided to do for money.
Andrea Ritchie, RH Reality Check. September 4, 2009. The State of Rhode Island seems poised to take a significant step backwards on its legal treatment of both sex work and trafficking.
Ester Amy Fischer, Huffington Post. June 5, 2009. It seems strange to eulogize an online red light district, but Craigslist Erotic Services transformed the meaning of being a sex worker.
Susannah Breslin, The Daily Beast. April 25, 2009. When Lily Burana married an Army officer, she left behind her life in strip clubs and became a cake-baking military wife. Then came the bombshells.
Tracy Quan, The Daily Beast. March 11, 2009. On the anniversary of Eliot Spitzer's exposed liaison, a madam is considering releasing the names in her little black book. Is she justified?
Cara, Feministe AlterNet: Sex and Relationships. March 3, 2009. "The day originated in 2001 when over 25,000 sex workers gathered in India for a sex worker festival."
Monica Shores, The Rumpus Sex Section. February 17, 2009. Here's a handy guide to help navigate the wealth of sex work-centric films Hollywood has to offer.
Tracy Quan, The Daily Beast. February 5, 2009. As the economy takes a spanking, many women are doing freelance fetish work to supplement their incomes.
Marcy Marzuki, Spread Magazine. December 30, 2008. Prostitutes, strippers and porn stars are now as ubiquitous on cable as cops are on network TV. Is that good or bad for sex workers?
Jill Filipovic, Feministe AlterNet: PEEK. December 21, 2008. The girl was innocent and did not even fit the description of the alleged criminal the police were looking for.
Annie Sprinkle, On The Issues Magazine. December 11, 2008. We must push to get sex workers the same police protection other citizens get without recrimination.
Sienna Baskin, Melissa Ditmore, RH Reality Check. October 29, 2008. The passage of San Francisco's Proposition K would be a critical first step toward reducing sex workers' vulnerability to violence.
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.
Andi Zeilser, Seal Press. October 16, 2008. Promoting pleasure for women has been difficult, thanks to a pop culture view of female sexuality riddled with moralism and classic double standards.
Juhu Thukral, On The Issues Magazine. August 28, 2008. It cannot be said enough: sex workers are people -- friends, wage earners, parents -- and they deserve the same human rights as everyone else.
Bernadette Barton, On The Issues Magazine. August 20, 2008. Our culture and media are obsessed with strippers. But in real life women who dance for a living inspire rabid sexism.
Ren, Feministe AlterNet: Sex and Relationships. August 20, 2008. I don't think the sex industry is going anywhere anytime soon, so thusly, I think that focus should be placed on the people in it.
Feministe AlterNet: Reproductive Justice and GenderAugust 5, 2008. A woman who stripped in Vegas writes about what working in a strip-club taught her about feminism in the work place.
