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• Australia bans A-cups in adult films

  
  feminist blogs — Authority: 164
  Or, so it seems. Its kind of hard to get the story straight,and I dont entirely understand Australias classification system for porn, so please correct me if Im wrong. However, it would appear, from everything Ive read on the subject ( here , here and here ), if youre a young-ish looking woman who has small boobs, ...
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• Sex Workers Charged As Sex Offenders

  
  Radical Vixen — Authority: 422
  From SWOP, LV : Her crime? Sex work in New Orleans “Tabitha has been working as a prostitute in New Orleans since she was 13. Now 30 years old, she can often be found working on a corner just outside of the French Quarter. A small and slight white woman, she has battled both drug addiction and illness and ...
  5 days ago

• The Poker Bride: A Story of Escape from Sexual Slavery

  
  Chess, Goddess and Everything — Authority: 139
  A book review, from The Wall Street Journal online:From Far East to American West Thanks to a poker game, she escaped the grim fate of so many Chinese women in 19th-century America. By MELANIE KIRKPATRICK In 1923, an old woman arrived on horseback in the central Idaho town of Grangeville. She rode down from the remote ...
  6 days ago

• LET’S DO IT! – a night of sex worker made media

  
  Good Vibrations Magazine — Authority: 430
  This showed up in my in-box and sounded interested, so I thought I’d pass it along. I’m told that they’re looking for a few more short films, preferably narrative/experimental that have been made by sex workers about sex work. Feel free to get in touch with them directly at birdcagecollective@gmail.com . ...
  1 week ago

• Sex News Round Up

  
  Radical Vixen — Authority: 422
  From CBC News : Former sex worker challenges prostitution laws “A former Vancouver sex-trade worker was at the B.C. Court of Appeal Thursday fighting for the right to challenge the constitutionality of Canada’s prostitution laws. Sheri Kiselbach was seeking to overturn a December 2008 B.C. Supreme Court ...
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• Manhattan Prosecutors Plan To Argue Away Bisexuality [Logic Fail]

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 819
  Manhattan prosecutors plan to call to the stand the supposed fiancé of one of two strippers charged with prostitution in order to refute any defense that involves lesbianism. Because you could never want to screw men and women, right? [ UPI ] Photo via Capn Monky
  2 weeks ago

• What I’ve Noticed

  
  Gravity's Rainbow — Authority: 119
  Most people who want to help in a disaster actually make things worse . The United States just legalized corruption .  Really government, corporations AREN’T PEOPLE . If a person was knowingly endangering the water supply of so many people , he/she would get more than a slap on the wrist fine. Interestingly, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Dallas Prostitution DNA Collection

  
  Radical Vixen — Authority: 422
  From 33 TV : Prostitute DNA Collection to Start Soon “Prostitutes in Dallas can soon submit their DNA to a database in case they become victims of violent crime. Dallas police Lt. Christina Smith said the collection could start soon after the next roundup of area prostitutes area in three weeks. Dallas police ...
  2 weeks ago

• And THIS is why sex offender needs to be redefined

  
  La Libertine's Salon — Authority: 412
  From TruthOut.org: Her Crime? Sex Work in New Orleans: New Orleans city police and the district attorneys office are using a state law written for child molesters to charge hundreds of sex workers like Tabitha as sex offenders. The law, which dates back to 1805, declares it a crime against nature to engage in ...
  3 weeks ago

• Sex News Update: US Male Legal Prostitutes

  
  Radical Vixen — Authority: 422
  From Details Magazine : Exclusive: Meet America’s First Legal Male Prostitute “Today, a 25 year old from Los Angeles (by way of Alabama) will become the first legal male prostitute in this country’s history. “Markus” (his working name) was fresh off the Greyhound bus yesterday when he granted Details an ...
  3 weeks ago

• Solemates – Humanity’s Fascination for Shoes

  
  Original Wavelength — Authority: 92
  Photo source: Shoes fascinate us. In every culture, shoes are more than utility items. We design, display and buy shoes we like. The desire to express our uniqueness through shoes is an ancient urge. Shoes also play an important role in determining social status or telling about our professions and ...
  3 weeks ago

• Weekly News Round-Up, 1/17

  
  Women's Health News — Authority: 547
  First things first: fellow librarian Cliff Landis is matching donations to Partners in Health toward Haiti relief , up to $10,000 (matched to be up to $20,000), through February 28. Via Ms. Magazine, Ultrasound Requirement Approved by KY Senate Committee . It would require women to have and view (with physician ...
  3 weeks ago

• This week in sex worker rights news...

  
  La Libertine's Salon — Authority: 412
  Jezebel.com highlights the "disturbing findings" about why men visit prostitutes . Indeed, the men in this international survey sound like right gits. For example theres this jewel of a human being: Said one man, "I dont want them to get any pleasure. I am paying for it and it is her job to give me pleasure. If she ...
  3 weeks ago

• Curb sex tourism, book flesh traders for rape: apex court

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 690
  New Delhi, Jan 15 (IANS) The Supreme Court Friday asked the government to curb sex tourism and deal firmly with criminals driving children into flesh trade by booking them for rape.“Obviously, it is a case of rape if the girls are less than 18 years. If you register 376 IPC (rape) cases, they (accused) will [...]
  3 weeks ago

• "It Is Her Job To Give Me Pleasure:" The Disturbing Beliefs Of Men Who Visit Prostitutes [Sex Work]

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 819
  An international study on why men visit prostitutes revealed some disturbing attitudes about sex trafficking , rape, and the difference between prostitutes and "real women." The researchers interviewed 700 men worldwide, including 103 in London. Julie Bindel of The Guardian spoke to 12, and their responses ...
  3 weeks ago

• Condom maker HLL setting up vaccine project

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 690
  By T.G. BijuNew Delhi, Jan 15 (IANS) HLL Lifecare, one of the world’s largest condom manufacturers that exports to 33 countries, including Britain and Gulf nations, is setting up a Rs.600-crore “integrated vaccine” project near Chennai, a top official said. “The Rs.600-crore integrated vaccine project will be ...
  3 weeks ago

• Police Arresting People Carrying Three or More Condoms

  
  F-Listed — Authority: 598
  Our nation’s capital has decided that there is a much simpler way to sift out who is turning tricks on the city’s streets. D.C. police working the beat in one of the city’s “Prostitution Free Zones” are now allowed to arrest anyone who is carrying three or more condoms around as a potential sex worker. Now ...
  3 weeks ago

• Criminalizing Condoms in the Nations Capitol

  
  The Pittsburgh Women's Blogging Society — Authority: 415
  Watch out, ladies! Carrying three condoms in D.C. makes you a prostitute : Police in D.C. are setting up “Prostitution Free Zones,” in which officers can arrest anyone they suspect of being a sex worker. And the police have been accused of using the number of condoms a person has in their possession as an ...
  3 weeks ago

• HEADLINES FROM THE WORLD PRESS

  
  The Impudent Observer - Global Liberal Issues — Authority: 148
  Each day we offer a sample of headlines which appeared in the world press along with our comments. Australia, Brisbane Times: “Dumb And Dumber” Rumsfeld and Cheney? Japan, Japan Times: “Japan Must Change How It Handles Low Birth Rate” Fornication camps? Russia, St. Petersburg Times: ...
  4 weeks ago

• Carry More Than 3 Condoms On You? Then You’re A Hooker! Sponsor: http://www.luktagott.nu

  
  Tvbot.se — Authority: 171
  Damn, Washington D.C.! This is pretty fucked up!! Apparently if a woman is stopped by police in a D.C. “Prostitution Free Zone” and is carrying three or more condoms on her, she could be arrested for prostitution!!!! Both New York City and San Francisco have followed suit with the ‘three condoms and you’re ...
  4 weeks ago

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