Sex Work

Civil Liberties

Occupational Licensing of Strippers Isn't Just Unnecessary, It's Dangerous

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 10.17.2014 9:15 AM

Policy

Coercion Dressed Up As Compassion for L.A.'s Teen 'Sex Trafficking' Victims

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 10.10.2014 3:33 PM

Civil Liberties

How Internet Activism Helps Sex Workers

Marginalized groups seek justice, community, and self-help online.

Noah Berlatsky | 10.5.2014 12:00 PM

Civil Liberties

Black Women Profiled as Prostitutes in NYC

A new report from the Red Umbrella Project makes clear that NYPD profiling isn't only focused on men.

Noah Berlatsky | 10.1.2014 8:30 AM

Culture

Belle Knox Docu-Series: 'Porn Is Like Any Other Job, It's Labor'

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 9.24.2014 2:25 PM

Civil Liberties

Daniele Watts and a Tale of Two Acts of Non-Prostitution

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 9.14.2014 4:10 PM

Culture

Raise Your Own Damn Children, Porn Edition

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 8.25.2014 4:10 PM

Nanny State

No, Rhode Island Didn't 'Accidentally' Decriminalize Prostitution

Decriminalization was the direct result of a lawsuit filed by sex workers in 1976.

Maggie McNeill | 8.24.2014 12:00 PM

Civil Liberties

Monica Jones Takes 'Manifesting Prostitution' Challenge to Arizona Supreme Court

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 8.6.2014 2:45 PM

Politics

Tonight on The Independents: The Road to Hell

Matt Welch | 7.25.2014 11:43 AM

Politics

Tonight on The Independents: Red Meat Wednesday With Ron Paul, Peter Suderman, Maggie McNeill and More, Talking About War, Obamacare, the V.A., Prostitution, and Pot

Matt Welch | 7.23.2014 6:17 PM

Politics

Why We Should Decriminalize Prostitution

Alexis Garcia | 7.20.2014 5:00 PM

Civil Liberties

Punishing Prostitution Clients Is Not a Feminist Solution

Conceptually the "Nordic Model"-which criminalizes the buying rather than the selling of sexual services-strips women of agency and autonomy.

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 7.20.2014 10:30 AM

Policy

Study: To Lower Rape and STD Rates, Decriminalize Prostitution

A loophole in Rhode Island decriminalized prostitution between 2004-2009. During this time the state saw significant decreases in rape and gonorrhea.

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 7.15.2014 4:50 PM

Civil Liberties

How the FBI Is Enabling Violence Against Women While Silencing Speech

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 7.14.2014 4:20 PM

Policy

Senate Sex Trafficking Bill Criminalizes Online Publishers and Creates State-Accessible Sex Worker Registries

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 7.1.2014 11:50 AM

Culture

'Innocence Stolen?' Maybe Not. Suspicion Cast on Sex-Trafficking Tale at Heart of Eden

Another high-profile sex trafficking yarn is coming unraveled.

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 6.12.2014 2:22 PM

World

Canada's Disappointing New Prostitution Plan Would Make Selling Sex There Illegal for the First Time

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 6.5.2014 10:30 AM

Nanny State

Criminalizing Sex Work Clients: the Hot New Anti-Prostitution Strategy That Works About as Well as the Old Strategy

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 6.4.2014 4:45 PM

Culture

Why Did Nicholas Kristof Believe Somaly Mam's Lies?

The roots and consequences of a deception.

Jesse Walker | 6.3.2014 3:55 PM

Culture

Happy International Whores' Day! Celebrating the Birth of the Sex Worker Rights Movement

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 6.2.2014 4:20 PM

Policy

'Prostitution Diversion' at Church

Sex worker stings

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 5.31.2014 7:00 AM

Nanny State

Texas Upholds $5-Per-Patron Strip Club Tax to Combat 'Social Ills Associated With This Type of Business'

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 5.12.2014 3:35 PM

Civil Liberties

How Maryland Cops' Plan to Live-Tweet a Prostitution Sting Backfired

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 5.7.2014 11:43 AM

Culture

Cincinnati Literally Barricading Roads in Effort to Stop Prostitutes

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 5.1.2014 3:40 PM

Policy

An End to New York's War on Condoms?

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 4.28.2014 10:53 AM

Politics

The Wrong Cure for Sex Trafficking

Prohibition of prostitution does not make it safer

Zach Weissmueller | 4.23.2014 1:30 PM

Politics

Promise and Peril in Tech Approaches To Stopping Child Sex Trafficking

From surveying to surveilling to spreading information, one organization is showing promise and raising concern.

Zenon Evans | 4.22.2014 4:30 PM

Politics

Sex Slaves and the Surveillance State

Why 'human trafficking' is a dangerous term

Thaddeus Russell | 4.22.2014 10:00 AM

Culture

Seattle Sheriff's Deputy Under Investigation for Using County Computers to Help Wife Sell Sex

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 4.21.2014 11:01 AM

Policy

A Distinct Lack of Passion

Charles Oliver | 4.18.2014 6:00 AM

Policy

Brickbat: A Distinct Lack of Passion

Charles Oliver | 4.18.2014 6:00 AM

Civil Liberties

Prostitution Precrime? Monica Jones and 'Manifesting an Intent' to Prostitute in America

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 4.16.2014 4:31 PM

Economics

French Sugar Daddy Site Gets Caught In Anti-Prostitution Net

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 4.7.2014 3:18 PM

Civil Liberties

Feminist Author Katha Pollitt Advocates Banning Sex Work Because PATRIARCHY

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 4.3.2014 5:05 PM

Civil Liberties

Northern Comfort

Habitats for Freedom

Scott Shackford | 3.31.2014 7:00 AM

Policy

Now Airport Employees Are Being Trained To Spot Sex Traffickers

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 3.28.2014 3:14 PM

Policy

Hawaii Cops Give Up on Sex With Hookers, Settle for Handjobs and Blowjobs

Jacob Sullum | 3.26.2014 6:30 PM

Policy

How to Tell if You're Being Sex Trafficked

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 3.26.2014 2:59 PM

Culture

Say Cheese

Charles Oliver | 3.24.2014 6:00 AM

Culture

Brickbat: Say Cheese

Charles Oliver | 3.24.2014 6:00 AM

Policy

Hawaii Cops Demand the Right to Have Sex With Hookers

Jacob Sullum | 3.21.2014 12:38 PM

Economics

15 Facts About the Underground Sex Economy in America

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 3.14.2014 3:40 PM

Policy

Nicholas Kristof Says Busting Johns Is the Key to Shutting Down the World's Oldest Profession

Jacob Sullum | 2.27.2014 1:21 PM

World

French Soccer Players Acquitted of Sleeping With Underage Prostitute

Alleged prostitute now kind of a big deal in France

Reason Staff | 1.31.2014 6:30 PM