This newspaper has never found it plausible that all prostitutes are victims. That fiction is becoming harder to sustain as much of the buying and selling of sex moves online. Personal websites mean prostitutes can market themselves and build their brands.
Read whole article: A personal choice | The Economist
Coca-Cola and Pepsi. McDonald’s and Burger King. Spouses and streetwalkers.
Wife or whore?
The choice is that simple. At least according to economists Lena Edlund and Evelyn Korn, it is.
The two well-respected economists created a minor stir in academic circles a few years back when they published “A Theory of Prostitution” in the Journal of Political Economy. […]
Terms like prostitution, forced, human trafficking, illegal in different combinations are being exploited as headlines in today’s media. Even in coverage of negative news one thing still counts: Sex sells!
It is of great annoyance to me that sex workers are continuously portrayed as a group of helpless souls too damaged to have a mind of […]
In an ideal world we’d probably pay attention to the testimony of actual sex workers before boxing their profession into a web of laws.
Read article: How Prudish Laws From the 1950s Make Sex Work Dangerous Today | VICE | United Kingdom
When it comes to prostitutes, people tend to have several ideas about them. Some will express sounds of disapproval of sex work all together. But still there are some who respect sex workers and admire them for their emotional capabilities because they acknowledge the fact that it is not that easy a job as it […]
This afternoon I was reading an article on coming out as a sex worker and all the consequences that derive from that decision. In many countries prostitution has not yet been legalized. Apart from all the stigma sex workers are at risk of being arrested on the job. Girls who have been confronted with violence […]
Sex work is deviant
In the old days travelers were explorers. Returning from their voyages they were highly admired when sharing their stories about discoveries and experiences in worlds far away, unreachable for most. Still today, many people stay safely in the environment of their home-town. Never expanding their horizon or changing point-of-views to see […]
NEW Zealand. Home of the long white cloud, the Lord of the Rings and, apparently, the best working conditions for prostitutes on the planet.
Sex workers across the ditch sign contracts, get paid weekly, work for bosses who keep their best interests at heart and have a relationship with police […]
A paydate is like a time machine. Or better yet, a zone constructed to escape a definition of time and place.
Our policy makers have been attaching irrelevant data to the sex work industry for a while […]
There are times where things just commence. Relative control. Escaping eases or destroys challenges creating a smaller virtual safety. Again life has brought me to cross my relativity and stumble upon opportunities. Chances where differences between failure and succes are deep. Emotions, feelings, sensitivity and more lethal variables are resident at this moment. Questions which […]
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