Letter to the Editor of the NY Times re: “What It Means to Call Prostitution Sex Work” by Pamela Paul
To the Editor: Paul vehemently opposes the term “sex worker,” yet does not provide a formal definition of it. Per the sex worker-led Global Network of Sex Work Projects, World Health Organization, UNAIDS, UNDP, and World Bank, “sex worker” refers…
Criminalizing Sex Work in Maine
Last month, Maine Gov. Janet Mills signed into law a bill adopting the so-called “Nordic model” for sex work. The Nordic model eliminates criminal penalties for the sale of sex, but continues the criminalization of the purchase. For this reason,…
Sex & Censorship
Sex is inextricable from a true understanding of the digital age. Or, as Camille Sojit Pejcha puts it, the “internet as we know it wouldn’t exist without sex.” This dialogue between the internet and sex is the very focus of…