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• Trafficked men forced to take viagra and sell sex 24 hours a day: Hang on

  7 September 2010 in trafficking

  All week people have been sending me a news story whose source is a press release from the Spanish National Police claiming another triumph in the crusade against sex trafficking. In the years I lived in Spain such stories of breaking up gangster networks were published continuously - so often that I wondered why police [...]

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• Sex Shops on Sunday

  5 September 2010 in sundaysex

  All sex shops are alike. True? Most of these pictures show the licensed, legal kind, which means there are rules about what they can and cannot put in the windows as well as sell inside. Those who work in this segment of the sex industry occupy an ambiguous status: are they sex workers? Some say [...]

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• From Postmodern Nadir to Feminist Maverick: Sex at the Margins rides again

  3 September 2010 in migration

  If you didn’t read the comments on my recent post about Important Enemies you really should. Nearly every one is interesting, thoughtful or nutty-entertaining, far from the tedious comments often heard at places like the Guardian. No, this was an authentic conversation with drama. My original idea was to have a section on my cv [...]

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• Polémica sobre trabajo sexual, anuncios de contacto, mafias, trata y periodismo

  1 September 2010 in sex work

  En España están hablando de nuevo de prohibir los anuncios de contacto con trabajadores sexuales - o prostitutas/os (y a veces conocidos como avisos de putas). Un artículo desde Tenerife expone los diversos argumentos pro y contra. El 20 Minutos acusa a los demás periódicos del proxenetismo. Malaprensa deconstuye cuidadosamente las cifras enormes siempre citadas [...]

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• Can advertising be trafficking? Is Craigslist like Wal-Mart? Is freedom involved?

  31 August 2010 in trafficking

  Running a website with erotic advertisements as sex trafficking: the mind boggles at how anything connected to the sex industry can now be given the scary label trafficking.
  In the USA, where Craigslist is headquartered, the website’s advertisements for paid sex are causing a furore amongst moral entrepreneurs who want the ads stopped on the grounds [...]

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