NPN's Jendi Reiter reviews Hos, Hookers, Call Girls, and Rent Boys: Professionals Writing on Life, Love, Money, and Sex by David Henry Sterry and R.J. Martin, Jr. (Brooklyn: Soft Skull Press, 2009).
Please circulate this flyer widely. Download the full-size PDF (95KB). Register here for the symposium.1. Don't Silence Yourself.
Even the staunchest advocates for ignoring harassment support this stance, because they want women to keep writing online. Do whatever you need to do to feel safe, but don’t' [...]
Capital Video's Amazing.net store in Northampton portrays itself as gay-friendly, but this is just a fig leaf over the true nature of the bulk of today's porn industry:
We are pleased to share this May 22 press release from the Polaris Project:
Porn and prostitution have long teamed up to exploit women. Porn tells men what to fantasize about. Some then go to prostituted women to act it out. For example, you can buy the following film today (number 3 in the top 100) from Amazing.net/GoFlix.com:
The Polaris Project has kindly given us permission to reprint this April 3 article from their blog, The North Star. The Polaris Project combats slavery and human trafficking. Author Katherine Chon is the president of Polaris Project.by Katherine Chon
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Ware selectmen OK written refusal to deny permit to Robbie's Place for nude dancing
The selectmen have approved a document defining their board's opposition to a downtown bar's request for a 2009 entertainment permit including nude dancing...
The document says granting the permit "would adversely affect the public [...]
Year later, porn store brings scant change to neighborhood
[Douglas A.] Kohl [a co-owner of commercial property at 139 King St.] has been trying [...]
The Norwegian Parliament has voted in favour of making payment for sexual acts a criminal offence in order to protect vulnerable women and children. The law passed with 44 votes in favour and 28 against and will come into effect on January 1, 2009.
The legislation -- inspired by [...]
Prostitution: To Legalize Or Not
About the Author: Ambassador Mark P. Lagon is Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State and Director of the U.S. Department of State’s Office to [...]
Craigslist Inc. agreed to crack down on ads posted by prostitutes, responding to government complaints that the classified-ad Web site has become a free clearinghouse for illegal sexual services.
In an agreement with attorneys general from 40 [...]
AntiPornActivist.com
We are proud to (finally) announce the launch of AntiPornActivist.com, our gateway to antiporn activism worldwide.
AntiPornActivist.com is designed to be a one-stop resource for any newly minted activist seeking to answer that depressing question, "What can one lonely person do about the [...]
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