Showing posts with label prostitution. Show all posts
Showing posts with label prostitution. Show all posts
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...
Tuesday, January 5, 2021

New Israeli anti-prostitution law: the johns are now criminals

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With the new year, the Israeli law that makes it a crime to hire prostitutes goes into effect.  Haaretz has the story:  Israel's Anti-pr...
Thursday, September 24, 2020

Unintended Consequences of Criminalizing Sex Work in East Java Indonesia, by Cameron, Seager, and Shah

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  Crimes Against Morality: Unintended Consequences of Criminalizing Sex Work Lisa Cameron , Jennifer Seager , Manisha Shah NBER Working Pape...
Thursday, July 30, 2020

Surrogacy and global kidney exchange receive popular support even where banned, in PNAS by Roth and Wang

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Popular repugnance contrasts with legal bans on controversial markets Alvin E. Roth and  Stephanie W. Wang PNAS first published July 29,...
Wednesday, March 18, 2020

Essential and inessential services under corona virus lockdown (guess before reading--coffee, cannabis, etc?)

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We're under "shelter in place" orders in Santa Clara County, with everyone hunkering down, except for essential services: B...
Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Crime and punishment in the sex trade--an ongoing controversy in the U.S.

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Two stories in the NY Times speak of the difficulty of regulating the sex trade, which may consist of both voluntary sex workers and victim...
Thursday, October 24, 2019

Prostitution in Washington DC (sex, not politics)

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The NY Times has the story, on a bill being discussed that would legalize not only prostitution, but pimps and brothels. In Washington, a...