A reader sent me this story, which I might have missed because it actually doesn’t use any of the scary words we are getting used to: sex trafficking, exploitation, prostituted […]
How very interesting to read an anti-panicky editorial in the midwestern US state of Kansas. The common-sense argument here says no cases of sex slavery have been found in strip […]
How about an informative article on sex work illustrated by a clock rather than girls in high boots bathed in red light? Not the sex itself but the employment mechanisms […]
There must be a sociological principle to describe the tendency for a wide variety of phenomena to be subsumed into a single reductionist label. Start a conversation about trafficking nowadays […]
At an event at the British Academy in London the other day I used the term Extremist Feminism to describe the sort that convicted a man for buying sex in […]
I am asked – nay, challenged – to say what the issues I comment on here have in common. Not the obvious answer incapsulated in the blog’s title: migration, trafficking […]
At the End HumanTrafficking event in Luxor, several people attempted to shut me up by claiming that, in their trafficking discussions, they are only talking about the worst, the authentic […]
Back in December I wrote briefly about my dramatic – no, melodramatic – experience at a UN event called EndHumanTrafficking, held in the Temple of Luxor. I went at the […]
I continue to point out that all statistics for victims of trafficking are not only estimates but often irresponsible guesses. Workers in informal-sector jobs, whether they are migrants or not, […]
The question of statistics on trafficking continues knotty. Earlier this year various news services reported that the German chief of police had announced sex trafficking had increased 11% over last […]
Given the considerable confusion about Julian Assange’s sex with a couple of women in Sweden, perhaps what I wrote last year about Swedish rape law can be clarifying. As regular […]
Could a visible police presence help to prevent trafficking? Some people say that every bit helps, but it’s hard to believe that handing out leaflets and stickers will discourage any […]
I found myself looking up an old quarrel at Slate, between Jack Shafer and Peter Landesman. Landesman had written a trafficking story for the New York Times Magazine, and Shafer […]
I accepted an invitation to talk about the much-publicised US child-trafficking sweep last week that resulted in lots of arrests of adults and rescues of a small number of people […]
On 31 October I’ll be participating in the Battle of Ideas, an annual event in London. The panel is called Trafficking: new slave trade or moral panic? and takes place […]
I am in Switzerland for three months, where prostitution is legal at the national level. At the same time, Switzerland is a (con)federation of 26 states, which means that each […]
The city of Prague is once again talking about legalising brothels and requiring prostitutes to register if they want to work independently I gave an interview to The Prague Post […]
Sweden’s The Local invited me to write on the government’s evaluation of the sex-buying law (sexköpslagen). I’m reproducing the article here minus stereotyped photo of woman’s high-booted legs in street […]
It takes all kinds in the gravy train of trafficking research, so I shouldn’t be surprised that newcomers to prostitution and sex-industry issues jump on with a statistical model attempting […]
Here’s the English translation of Tvivelaktig rapport om sexköp published 15 July 2010 in a major Swedish newspaper (not only online – this piece occupies half a page in the […]