New Canadian prostitution bill expected ‘well before’ deadline: MacKay says
Justice Minister Peter MacKay says the government will introduce its new prostitution legislation well ahead of the December deadline. Speaking in Halifax, MacKay said Ottawa has already started to...
View ArticleThe Business of Pleasure; Men for Hire
Women want more than just sex from a male escort – and the successful ones know how to deliver. Benjamin Law reports Some jobs you never see advertised. Think Hollywood actor, astronaut, adventurer....
View ArticleAmnesty International: Global policy consultation on sex work
Amnesty International is currently in the process of considering a global policy on sex work. We have been aware of the need to develop our thinking on this issue for a while, informed by work on our...
View ArticleSex worker hotline could close unless urgent funding found
A confidential hotline for prostitutes to report dangerous punters faces closure unless it can find funding in a few weeks’ time. The Ugly Mugs Scheme, based in north Manchester , allows escorts and...
View ArticleBritish Columbia will not prosecute most prostitution cases
VANCOUVER – British Columbia has become the latest province to announce it will not prosecute most prostitution-related offenses now that Canada’s highest court has ruled the laws are unconstitutional....
View ArticleGovt of Canada Begins On-Line Consultations re: Criminal Code...
The Government of Canada today launched a public on-line consultation with Canadians to seek their views and input, to help inform the Government’s response to the Supreme Court of Canada decision in...
View ArticleSex work, job creation and the latest moral panic
The headline from the International Business Times was a moral panic classic: “UK Government Pays Sex Clubs To Employ Teenage Girls.” But it is a headline that is misleading and it misses the point. It...
View ArticleMore than 540 NGOs + 45 researchers demand Members of EU Parliament reject MS...
More than 540 civil society organisations and 45 researchers tell the European Parliament to reject a report on prostitution by Mary Honeyball, MEP for London, which promotes the criminalisation of...
View ArticleVictory — Closure order on sex workers’ Soho flat defeated; the flat re-opens!
Victory — closure order on sex workers’ Soho flat defeated; the flat re-opens! Two sex workers’ flats in Soho, central London were yesterday re-opened by a judge at Isleworth Crown Court. Judge JW...
View ArticleBanning prostitution is the greater evil
The greater evil: In Europe, 560 social enterprises, including 70 academics and researchers, have signed a petition against the criminalization of prostitutes’ clients, which has been sent to the...
View ArticleIn response to MEP Honeyball’s suggestion that 560 NGOs are ‘pimps’
On 24 of February, MEP Honeyball emailed MEPs suggesting “that these (450 organisations at the time) are in fact organisations comprised of pimps etc” Mary Honeyball MEP Here is ICRSE’s answer:...
View ArticleStudents Who Do Sex Work
A freshman at Duke University was outed as a porn performer by a fellow classmate earlier this year. The story was quickly picked up by national outlets. When the student revealed her porn alias, Belle...
View ArticleLord Morrow quizzed over (non-) consultation of sex workers
Sinn Fein MLA Rosie McCorley asked him about “which sex worker groups you have spoken to” regarding his bill, which could criminalise men who buy sex. The DUP peer responded that he had “appeared on...
View ArticleHonolulu police: Outlaw sex with prostitutes
HONOLULU (AP) – Honolulu police told a key Hawaii lawmaker on Tuesday that they’re OK with making it expressly illegal for officers to have sex with prostitutes, as long as undercover officers can...
View ArticleACLU Looking Into Phoenix’s ‘Project ROSE’ Prostitution Busts
The American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona is looking into the program known as “Project ROSE,” which involves sending suspected prostitutes to a church-based diversion program as an option to avoid...
View ArticleMy Work Should Not Cost Me My Life
On December 20, 2013, the Supreme Court of Canada rendered a landmark decision that substantially reshaped Canada’s legal framework regarding adult prostitution. The case of Bedford v. Canada resulted...
View ArticleSex worker rights: why Peter MacKay won’t get a date this Friday night
“Just be yourself,” Mark tells me, “and if all else fails, pretend you’re talking to me.” Words of advice from a favourite client resonate in my head as I prepare for my first-ever radio interview...
View ArticleProstitution in the Ottoman Empire
Prostitution, they claim, is the oldest profession in the world, but when it comes to Ottoman times very little is known – not just because little research has been done on it. While marriage, divorce,...
View ArticleMontreal Gazette: Prostitution is a legitimate form of work
Bill C-36, the federal government’s response to the Supreme Court ruling last December striking down Canada’s prostitution laws, has rekindled the debate over prostitution in Canada, and once again,...
View ArticleEmailing porn to your workmates is OK, Aussie court rules (just don’t watch it)
Voyeurs rejoice! The Federal Court of Australia has ruled Aussies cannot be easily sacked for emailing porn to work colleagues. The ruling upheld a decision last year by Fair Work Australia which found...
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