Trump is back in office (which perhaps bears no reminding) – and with that come his draconian policies, both old and new, including the anti-abortion policy known as the global gag rule. The global gag rule itself is some 40…
Criminalization of sex work is often falsely believed to improve societal health, minimize sex trafficking, and keep sex workers safe. However, criminalization worsens these outcomes by driving both sex workers and trafficking victims underground, where they experience more violence, fewer social services, and less access to adequate healthcare. Decriminalization would be far more effective at ensuring sex workers' physical safety, economic stability, and physical and mental health.
Want to hear an outright lie told often around this time of year? Here’s one: the Super Bowl is “the single largest human-trafficking incident in the United States.” This 100% false statement, lacking any evidence, was made in 2011 by…
In 2010, by presidential proclamation, President Obama declared January National Human Trafficking Prevention Month. For the past 15 years, every presidential administration has continued this tradition, which seeks to raise awareness of the issue and highlight domestic and international efforts…
At the start of the new year, Meta made waves when CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced they would be changing their content moderation policies to eliminate censorship on their platforms, Threads, Instagram, and Facebook. Zuckerberg claimed it was time to “get…
It’s nonsensical and draconian, and now, it’s reality: Pornhub is inaccessible in 16 U.S. states due to age-verification laws. Generally, as James Factora writes, such laws “force sites containing ‘material harmful to minors’” to “utilize age verification” and limit users’…
December 17th is the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. For over 20 years, memorials and vigils have been held on this day to honor the sex workers lost to physical and systemic violence. While this day initially…
Texas’s new bill H.B. 991, known as the Women and Child Safety Act, has little to do with protecting women or children. Rather, under the guise of concern for people’s wellbeing, H.B. 911 attacks Texans’ most fundamental human rights to…
