The first of its kind in the world, Belgium has passed into law a bill that allows sex workers to be seen, treated, and privileged like every other worker on a job. According to a BBC report, the new law, which took effect on Sunday (1 December), gives them full access to every opportunity, including sick … Read more
Every Friday, Lada leaves her small apartment to take tourists around Prague’s underworld. “I pass on my cautionary tale,” says the 54-year-old sex worker as she chain-smokes her way through Wenceslas Square in the Czech capital. “At least my ruined life can be useful. I can make a clean breast of it. It’s a relief.” … Read more
WARNING: This story contains details of intimate partner violence. A second judge refused to grant bail to Sean (Diddy) Combs on Wednesday, saying the government had proved “by clear and convincing evidence” that no amount of bail could guarantee the hip-hop mogul won’t tamper with witnesses. U.S. District Judge Andrew L. Carter handed down the ruling … Read more
Charlotte Shane was twenty-one and a graduate student when she started selling private sex shows on a Web site called Flirt4Free, in the early two-thousands. “I was a disaster on-screen: green, graceless, with a body too long and too soft,” Shane writes in “An Honest Woman,” in which she chronicles the nearly two decades she … Read more
Commercial sex workers in Kano State have appealed to organisers of the nationwide hunger protests to engage the Federal Government in dialogue. They told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday that the protests had crippled social-economic activities, leaving them without customers and struggling to survive. Monica James, who operates on France Road, said … Read more
Legislation in Washington state known as the strippers’ bill of rights, which advocates say includes the most comprehensive statewide protections in the nation, was signed into law on Monday. Gov. Jay Inslee signed the measure, which creates safer working conditions for people in the adult entertainment industry and makes it possible for the clubs to … Read more
PORN star Sophie Anderson lived a life of harrowing abuse and sex trafficking at the hands of ex-Crystal Palace footballer Oliver Spedding in the months before her tragic death – and was badly let down by police, friends have said. Sophie, 36, died on November 18 from unconfirmed causes – two weeks after her partner … Read more
