Showing posts with label prostitution. Show all posts
Showing posts with label prostitution. Show all posts
Friday, August 14, 2026

True Crime: Illegal markets have great variety (PNAS)

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  The forthcoming issue of PNAS (August 18, 2026 | vol. 123 | no. 33 ) has a big set of papers on illegal markets, with the goal of searchin...
Sunday, August 2, 2026

The New Bazaar on Moral Economics

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 Cardiff Garcia interviewed me about Moral Economics , and we began by talking about medical aid in dying, and moved briskly on to other co...
Monday, June 15, 2026

Horsemeat, Prostitution and Kidney Sales, interview by Peter Coy

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 Peter Coy interviewed me about Moral Economics for his substack Economics for Everyone. You can find the video and the transcript at this ...
Sunday, December 1, 2024

Workers' rights for sex workers in Belgium

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  Sex work isn't merely legal in Belgium, it's now recognized as work. The BBC has the story:   Belgium's sex workers get matern...
Monday, November 27, 2023

Banks boycott sex workers even for legal kinds of sex work

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 Repugnance isn't erased by legality. Workers in morally contested, repugnant markets may be boycotted by banks even when their work is ...
Sunday, July 9, 2023

Sex work contracts are enforceable in small claims court, in Canada

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 In Nova Scotia (where selling sex is legal but buying it is not), a sex worker sued a delinquent client for her fee and won (despite his ar...
Friday, July 7, 2023

Regulating legal prostitution isn't easy, even in Amsterdam

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 The NYT has the story: Amsterdam Tries to Dim the Glare on Its Red-Light District . The mayor wants to improve the neighborhood for residen...
Sunday, February 12, 2023

Super (bowl) markets

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 There's also a football game, but here are some other, related markets (gambling, advertising, deal making...). Gambling: WSJ: Watching...
Friday, January 20, 2023

Repugnant and deleted blog posts: AI and the Justice Stewart test

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  As someone who sometimes writes and speaks about repugnant transactions and controversial markets , I'm aware that people may object n...
Tuesday, December 20, 2022

Brothels reduce neighboring house prices in Amsterdam

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 There are many reasons why communities object to prostitution, and it will not surprise you to learn that it reduces house prices in its im...
Monday, March 7, 2022

Sex Work: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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Laughing through the tears about the plight of sex workers, and the complicated and often ridiculous legal environment. (He notes that there...
Saturday, January 29, 2022

Erotic movies versus porn -- times and terms are changing

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In a 1964 case, Jacobellis v. Ohio , Supreme Court Justice  Potter Stewart famously declared that it was difficult to define pornography, b...
Friday, August 27, 2021

OnlyFans announces then reverses a ban on explicit sexual content

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  Here's a story from the Guardian, following the reported decision of the website OnlyFans to ban certain sexually explicit content, a...
Monday, August 9, 2021

Criminalizing the clients of sex work makes the client population riskier to sex workers (study in the UK)

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 Here's a  recent study that suggests that criminalizing the clients of prostitutes results in the client population becoming more risky...
Wednesday, May 26, 2021

The internet hybrid of pornography and sex work on OnlyFans

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 Sex work is mostly  about in-person, one-on-one, personal encounters.  Pornography is mostly about publishing, whether in print or other me...
Thursday, April 29, 2021

NYC to stop prosecuting prostitutes (but will continue to prosecute their customers)

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 NYC will stop prosecuting prostitution, but will continue to prosecute the customers of prostitutes, and pimps. The NY Times has the story:...
Sunday, February 14, 2021

Margo St. James, (1937-2021) fought to make sex work safer, and legal

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  The NY Times has the story Margo St. James, Advocate for Sex Workers, Dies at 83.  She founded a group called COYOTE (Call Off Your Old Ti...