A recently released study of 2000 UK university students reveals that 4% of female and 3% of male students admit engaging in some form of sex work. However, the real figure might be even higher, as about a quarter of students said they knew a fellow student who did so, suggesting that the practice is […]
Chef Paris Rosina hosts in her West London home a glitzy supper club every month, reserved for sex workers, both male and female. Called “Let Me Fill You Up,” they feature stuffed food as a key element of her menu: “I like food inside of food, basically.” The extravagant dinners usually come with a show. […]
Investigative reporter Michael Tracey looks at the anti-trafficking industry. In the wake of the moral panic and conspiracy theories surrounding the late financier Jeffrey Epstein, about whom much still remains unknown, politicians on both the right and left as well as NGOs have exploited the ever-expanding concept of “sex trafficking” to characterize virtually all commercial […]
When originally erected on a street corner in Sydney’s red-light district of Darlinghurst in 1995, the statue of “Joy” provoked local controversy and was subject to vandalism, including a hammer attack by an outraged mother who thought it looked like her daughter. It was removed two years later, but has now been reproduced in more […]
With support from Irish sex worker organizations, parliamentarian Ruth Coppinger has introduced a bill to repeal key provisions of Ireland’s Sexual Offenses Act 2017, which decriminalized the selling of sex, but outlawed its purchase or the keeping of brothels. Sex workers have argued that the bill has failed in its intent to reduce the prevalence […]
Finnish MP, Anna Kontula, who has served as a leftist deputy in Finland’s parliament since 2011 and has championed sex worker rights consistently, revealed in an interview with a Finnish newspaper that she had herself been a sex worker since the age of 16. “I wanted to make a living and this was a pretty […]
