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abc does prostitution

ABC had the special “Prostitution in America” on Friday night. It followed a young woman on the streets of Reno, visited the legal brothel the Bunny Ranch, rode around the hard streets of Philly in a medical trailer that gives HIV tests and condoms and spoke (anonymously in shadow) to a [...]

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Feministe has a great interview today with an attorney from the Sex Workers Project:
“As the Spitzer scandal burns down into its coal-like embers, there’s been a lot of discussion about the nature of sex work as well as what society’s response to it should be. Legalization? The Swedish model? Or something else? Should we be [...]

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more on client 9

I wasn’t really going to go there with the Spitzer thing, but it does bring up the whole “worlds oldest profession” debate.
Salon’s Broadsheet had a good post today “New Debates About the Oldest Profession” in response to a NYT article “The Myth of the Victimless Crime”.
I consider myself a sex positive feminist and tend [...]

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soft on spitzer

I haven’t really been following this Gov. Spitzer situation with the prostitution ring, blah blah. I get so tired of these stories so fast because I’m not really appalled. I don’t know why I can’t muster the energy to care - I guess this stuff happens every day and really the story is that he [...]

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