By Carol Stuart The St.James Infirmary is one of the first of its kind — an occupational health clinic for sex industry workers. What makes
By Melynda H. Barnhart Feminist debates about sex work, prostitution, and sex trafficking raged long before the debate was enshrined in federal law through the
By Mary Lou Greenberg During the recent Beijing Olympics, the Washington Post reported that up to 10 million women in China earn income from prostitution,
By Penelope Saunders In late 2004 and early 2005, the Mayor of Washington, D.C. proposed several new laws to augment the city’s already stringent anti-prostitution
By Nicole Witte Solomon In 2004, Rachel Aimee, Rebecca Lynn and Raven Strega hit upon a radical notion. The media sensationalizes sex work — services
By Jaye Austin Williams It was a peculiar Christmas the year my Aunt Mickey told me of my unsavory beginnings. My birth father was a
By Lakshmi Anantnarayan The great divide in the women’s movement on the subject of prostitution has been well-documented and even sensationalized by the media. What
By Jane Roberts I look at the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle and cringe. I don’t give a damn about those protruding heads, those slightly
By Mahin Hassibi I have come to the conclusion — albeit reluctantly — that selling sex for money or a dollar-substitute, cannot be posed as
By Christine Stark I can’t write nothingBeautiful. I am expected to be that way because I am a girl writer and we are supposed to
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