Woodhull Freedom Foundation Files Lawsuit Challenging FOSTA
Today, lawyers representing Woodhull Freedom Foundation along with Human Rights Watch, The Internet Archive, and two individuals filed a federal lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia challenging the constitutionality of the Allow States and Victims…
What About SESTA?
Thank you for being patient with us as we continue to consider our options around the onerous, vague, and punitive restrictions in SESTA, a bill recently passed with bipartisan support. The bill was framed as an anti-trafficking measure when, in…
Centering Sexual Freedom on Human Rights Day
Happy Human Rights Day! Today marks the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights , a document that identified the inalienable rights to which everyone is inherently entitled as a human being -- regardless of race, religion, sex, language,…
5 Ways to Advocate for Human Rights
As sexual freedom activists, there is never a question of the amount of work to be done. Two weeks ago we learned of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s raid on Rentboy.com (which some are calling the “Stonewall of Sex…
Rentboy.com Latest Victim in the Ongoing War Against Sex
Woodhull opposes recent arrests This morning, federal and state law enforcement officials conducted a raid against Rentboy.com and arrested seven people associated with the website, charging them with prostitution and money laundering. In June, 2014, Woodhull made the following…
The War on Porn Rebranded as the War on Sex Trafficking
On October 8, 2014, ThinkProgress.com declared the end to the War on Porn. The censors had lost and erotic media would live on. One sign that the war had been lost was the fact that annual contributions to the well-known anti-erotica…
Communities of Privilege, Ethics Of Pleasure, Economies of Pain
The recent hospitalizations and arrests at Wesleyan University, initiated by the indulgence in a club drug called Molly, is prompting a lot of self-examination on the campus, and I can imagine that much of that self-examination is at risk of…
Washington, DC Passes Bill to Repeal Discredited “Prostitution Free Zones”
Woodhull testified against Prostitution Free Zones. See our testimony here. On October 7, 2014, the District of Columbia Council voted on a bill to repeal the District’s“Prostitution Free Zones” law as well as the “Drug Free Zones” law that it…
Still Harmful to Minors
In 2002, Judith Levine wrote a prize-winning critique of sex-related laws called Harmful To Minors (Thunders Mouth Press). It provides a very carefully researched, clearly written argument that the laws we make in the name of protecting kids often does more damage…