Category Archives: Prostitution, Porn and Sex Work

Texas Jury Acquits Man For Killing Escort Who Wouldn’t Have Sex With Him

Posted on June 8, 2013 by Ampersand

(UPDATE: Make sure to read the update at the end of the post, which puts a very different spin on the jury’s decision.) From Vanity Fair: Frago went outside where her driver, Christopher Perkins, was waiting. Gilbert came out and … Continue reading →

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Non-Consensual Sex Is Evil, Not Non-Conventional Sex

Posted on May 20, 2013 by Ampersand

Public Disgrace is an online pornography series that advertises itself as “women bound, stripped, and punished in public.” It is the creation of a 30-year-old San Francisco–based porn director and dominatrix named Princess Donna Dolore. Princess Donna conceived of the … Continue reading →

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The Snuggery: Cuddles As Sex Work

Posted on March 18, 2013 by Ampersand

I was annoyed by this New York Magazine article about a business called The Snuggery, both by the writer’s snideness (“It almost seems like men are paying to get blue balls”) and by the choice to illustrate with a nude … Continue reading →

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The War On Sex Workers

Posted on February 14, 2013 by Ampersand

I wanted to recommend this excellent article in Reason Magazine, about how laws against prostitution and sex trafficking hurt sex workers. (This subject, like the war on drugs, is one that libertarians seem to do a better job of covering … Continue reading →

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Prostitutes in the US are 42 times as likely to be murdered as the average American (Not an accurate statistic – see update)

Posted on May 12, 2012 by Ampersand

UPDATE: I definitely can’t stand by the statistic I quoted in this post; it’s way too high, it seems. See the discussion in the comments for details. Original post follows. From an article about serial killers who work as truck … Continue reading →

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From an article in the New York Times on sex trafficking in Spain

Posted on April 6, 2012 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

The whole article is really disturbing, but this in particular made me have to stop reading and take a deep breath. I don’t want to judge the family without knowing the situation–who knows whether the traffickers gave them little or … Continue reading →

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Men pose to show women’s hidden wounds – Photo Galleries Hürriyet Daily News (Turkish Daily News)

Posted on August 23, 2011 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

This is a great photo gallery of Turkish men–all of them, as far as I can tell, public figures in one way or another–protesting the treatment of women in their country. Below is the first image in the series, of … Continue reading →

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Fragments of Evolving Manhood: Korea 3

Posted on October 30, 2010 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

“Just meet me downstairs in 30 minutes” was all my friend Mr. Park would say when I asked what he had in mind. It was Friday night and I had, actually, been planning to spend it alone, but I was … Continue reading →

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Fragments of Evolving Manhood: Korea 2

Posted on October 29, 2010 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

Since Alas has been away for a while, here is a link to Part 1 for those who’d like to read it. I’d been in Korea for two weeks when I decided it was time to venture on my own … Continue reading →

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Fragments of Evolving Manhood: Korea 1

Posted on October 15, 2010 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

This post is an edited excerpt from an essay called “Relishing My Solitude” that I published in The American Voice in 1997. With a half-finished bottle of soju sitting on the floor between us, and another two waiting to be … Continue reading →

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