In Scotland it is currently legal to pay for sex, although related activities like running a brothel and loitering in public are in fact illegal. The Nordic model, as enacted in countries such as Sweden, Norway, and Iceland, aims to criminalize the purchasing of sex and decriminalizing the selling of it. A member of the […]
What does it mean for users if OnlyFans is sold?
OnlyFans is owned by American internet entrepreneur Leonid Radvinsky and could soon be sold in a deal worth a whopping 8 billion dollars. While the company is quite young, having been founded in Britain in 2016, it has significantly altered the nature of sex work around the world. By making sex work a more accessible […]
Major advances at the state level for sex workers’ rights and protections
A fear of legal trouble deters many sex workers from coming forward to report violence and other crimes that they suffer or witness in their trade. The Nevada Legislature has recently proposed a bill that if passed would help to safeguard sex workers against prosecution for substance, vagrancy, and selling-sex offenses. Presently there is a […]
Are “breastaurants” not as titillating as they used to be?
The US-based restaurant Hooters filed for bankruptcy protection about a month ago. Known for both its chicken wings and sexualized waitresses, it was founded in Clearwater, Florida in 1983. Given some recent tectonic shifts in the state of sexual politics, thanks in large part due to the #MeToo movement, Hooters closing over 40 of its […]