In this episode, Meghan Murphy speaks with Michelle Mara about the effect of decriminalizing prostitution in New Zealand.
Tag: prostitution
Last week, 22-year-old Marylène Lévesque was murdered by a 51-year-old man named Eustachio Gallese. Lévesque was in prostitution, employed by a Quebec “massage parlour,” where men paid her for sex. The Montreal Gazette…
Media, the police, and social workers knew girls were being exploited by Pakistani grooming gangs in Northern England, given drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, and food, then sold to grown men. Authorities ignored the story, but Julie Bindel reported on it.
Women’s motivations for paying for sex are notably different than men’s, and demonstrate we are a long way from female sexual liberation.
Elite South Korean men have been outed as violent sexual exploiters, but regular men need to be accountable for their role in rape culture too.
Raquel Rosario Sanchez speaks with four women who participated in a recent event looking at the experiences of women of colour in the sex trade, and the connection between racism and prostitution.
Not only does pornography impact women in the sex trade, but it harms society at large. And we are seeing the results on a widespread basis.
Thousands of migrant women and girls are being silently smuggled into the UK for sex trafficking every year — the UK government needs to ensure its immigration laws aren’t making it harder for those women to escape their abusers.
Another research paper promoting the legalization of prostitution as beneficial has been released. Titled, “Associations between sex work laws and sex workers’ health: A systematic review and meta-analysis of quantitative and qualitative…
I am never relieved when evil men die. Rather, I feel angry — ripped off. Those men never got their comeuppance. Today, a king among evil men died too soon. Just 24…
Meghan Murphy interviews Renee Gerlich about her ongoing activism in New Zealand and the struggles she’s faced in doing this work.
When feminists are attacked, liberals and the left either support these attacks or remain silent. Indeed, we are treated as though the attacks are all our fault.
The sex trade lobby disrupted a recent conference on sexual exploitation — Caitlin Roper and Sabrinna Valisce recount what happened.
There is an unresolvable contradiction when a rape crisis centre supports “sex work.”
Women in impoverished countries are exploited by Western men who publicly declare solidarity with women but behave differently in private.