Laura Agustín, the Naked Anthropologist, began publishing this blog in September 2008. Some posts were previously published in journals, newsletters and online and are so identified. Others are new writings and commentary. Some are reviews and interviews published by others about my book Sex at the Margins: Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry.
- 30: How to buy tickets for Laura’s London History Walks with Gender, Sex and Class
- 20: Open for Business: London Walks with Gender, Sex and Class
- 07: Who wants to go to Essex? A walk in Rochford town and by the River Roach
- 02: Scratching out a living: The Medieval Female Proletariat – A guided walk
- 24: Christmas in the Brothel
- 14: Snake Oil: A Memoir on the Rise of ‘Trafficking’
- 11: Sex workers working with police: Sue Davis, Vancouver BC
- 12: Sexworkers’ long history as political experts, English translation: Thierry Schaffauser
- 09: Sexworkers’ long history as political experts: Thierry Schaffauser
- 18: Migrant sex worker: a term that has arrived
- 04: Migrant Caravan in Tijuana: Report from a volunteer lawyer
- 12: Grid girls and the Presidents Club: Women and sexist jobs
- 02: Victimisation of Mary Prince: Early Rescue-Industry history
- 29: Sex at the Margins: Beyond Binaries in Trafficking & Sex Work
- 20: The New Abolitionist Model
- 13: International Day To End Violence against Sex Workers
- 11: Xiaojie: no sexworker identity
- 22: If you thought Trafficking was a bad term, try Modern Slavery
- 03: Sex work in fiction: Gorky Park, Moscow prostitution doesn’t exist
- 01: All that is trafficking is rape, and other emotional excesses
- 19: Paying for sex in Graham Greeneland: Sex work in fiction
- 05: Wearing slammerkins and dreaming: Sex work in fiction
- 29: Social-Problem novels and The Three-Headed Dog
- 25: Worker declines rescue in Magdalen Nabb: Sex work in fiction
- 22: Ellroy’s Black Dahlia as a B-girl: Sex work in fiction
- 19: The girlfriend experience in Lawrence Block: Sex work in fiction
- 17: Hustling and cruising with John Rechy: Sex work in fiction
- 15: James Lee Burke with French Quarter scam: Sex work in fiction
- 11: The postwar London of Doris Lessing: Sex work in fiction
- 08: The Rescue Industry has a song
- 04: More 5-star reviews for The Three-Headed Dog
- 02: Interviews by Johnny Lemuria and Maggie McNeill
- 29: Interview with Radio Ava, sexworker radio in London
- 20: Pimping as a job: Blood on Snow and The Three-Headed Dog
- 14: Reader reviews of The Three-Headed Dog
- 12: Thinking about sex work as work: Dublin Anarchist Book Fair
- 20: Sexwork and migration fiction (4): To go with sex tourists or smugglers?
- 15: Being and being reviewed: Books as pieces of self
- 10: Sexwork and migration fiction, part 3: Location and nation
- 31: Sexwork and migration fiction, part 2 : Jobs in the sex industry
- 27: Migrants in novels: James Ellroy, The Black Dahlia
- 23: Sexwork and migration fiction, part 1: Melodrama and archetypes
- 09: The Three-Headed Dog: Sexwork and Migration Mystery
- 05: Sexwork expressionism from Edvard Munch, or Everyday life in a brothel
- 12: Is Sex at the Margins (going to be) a classic?
- 07: Becoming aware of Awareness-Raising as anti-trafficking tactic
- 03: Fantasies that matter: Images of sex work in media and art
- 01: Somaly Mam, Nick Kristof and the Cult of Personality
- 13: Sweden and prostitution law: the conditions of possibility
- 06: Women doing things again, on their own
- 21: Sex at the Margins: holiday gift or way to escape the celebrations
- 04: What does the French prostitution law mean? Denial of consent
- 12: Contentious and contradictory: Prostitution-law campaigns in Europe
- 04: France anti-prostitution crusade succeeding, rights activists disqualified from debate
- 23: Social-work projects fail sex workers despite helping-hands image
- 16: Does banning prostitution make women safer? The perils of interviews
- 12: Segregation, colonialism and unfreedom at the border
- 09: Judge dismisses academic claim to sex-trafficking expertise
- 28: Stigma and disqualification not the same as hatred and fear
- 26: Prostitution Law & the Death of Whores in Jacobin Magazine
- 12: Fallen Women: persistence of an image
- 05: The irrationality of prostitution laws
- 01: Cry with trafficked women: Colonial prurience and 3-star hotels
- 19: Remembering Judge Himel: Bold assertions and inflammatory language not useful to the court
- 03: My Erotic Award as Campaigner: win for a reasonable point of view
- 23: Intellectual influence (or grooming, if you feel paranoid)
- 19: Video of Sex Work as Work: some ideas on labour policy and organising
- 16: Law against buying sex: Yawn, not even on the timeline
- 12: Naked musings on borders, illegality and personal identity
- 06: Good-time girls and other non-professionals taking money for sex
- 22: I am not Michael O’Leary, and other meditations on public performance
- 15: The prohibition of things: Deterrence, Punishment and Rescue
- 08: Sex at the Margins: The book that named the Rescue Industry
- 02: A Migrant World of Services: the emotional, sexual and caring services of women
- 31: Sex on Sunday: Beware of the Anarchist Bookfair & its devilish talk on sex work
- 25: Dear Students of Sex Work and Trafficking
- 07: The Em- of Empowerment: Neoliberal missionaries and maternalism
- 04: The Cultural Study of Commercial Sex: Needed more than ever
- 28: Sex at the Margins reviewed in Gender & Development
- 24: Sex on Sunday: Sleaze and survival, taxi-dancing in Times Square
- 15: Talking about sex work without isms: Dublin Anarchist Bookfair
- 14: Anarchists, activists, academics: April in Dublin
- 31: Chink in the Evangelical wall: Sex trafficking, colonialism and Christian ethics
- 18: HIV and Sex Work: The View from 2012
- 16: Listen to Sex at the Margins: It’s now an audiobook
- 14: UK survey on prostitution funded by Christian CARE
- 02: Sex-worker group in Sweden, Rose Alliance, in the news
- 21: Sex at the Margins now on Kindle: Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry
- 20: Does legalised prostitution increase trafficking? Who knows, without real data?
- 12: Nordic/Swedish models: laws criminalising the purchase of sex
- 02: Sex boxes are not boxes: Regulation of prostitution in Zurich
- 09: Border Crossing: Looking for sex-victims and sex workers
- 06: Research for Sex Work: Edition on HIV and Sex Work out soon
- 15: Rescuing a sex slave/worker in a novel: The Darkest Little Room
- 10: Annals of the Rescue Industry: Celebrities pose, feeling good
- 03: Kristof’s asinine smarm: the Soft Side of Imperialism redux
- 27: Did the Olympics affect London’s sex industry?
- 25: Trafficking gravytrain boarded by clueless men: Cupcakes ahoy!
- 04: Second-wave feminism: Revolution, not Rescue
- 20: Wannabe Special Agents act out fantasies about sex slaves
- 13: Summertime Imperialism: Meet sex-trafficking victims and other sad folk
- 20: Against sexual fundamentalism: harm reduction, condoms and sex work
- 12: The Age of Women Who Sell Sex: Does Kristof lie? What about the children?
- 03: Acting Up about sex work, and how middle-class norms rely on police enforcement
- 25: Satanic Sex on Sunday: Gunilla Ekberg, Sex War and Extremist Feminism
- 24: No crime associated with brothels in Sydney
- 18: Mayor Bloomberg, DSK, taxi drivers: Which women are sex workers? trafficking victims?
- 16: Journal specialises in sex workers’ ideas and research: call for papers
- 15: Stop the Arrests (of sex workers): Campaign launches in London 18 June
- 10: Thai government panders to US anti-trafficking policy, ignores changes in Entertainment Industry
- 06: European Women’s Lobby lies about sex trafficking, prostitution and sporting events
- 03: Sex as Work and Sex Work: a marxian take
- 29: Slick misleading infotainment on sex trafficking from the BBC: No one’s immune, then
- 25: Have you signed the letter to stop arrests of sex workers during the Olympics?
- 20: Callgirls are more honest than anti-male campaigners says Lambeth protester
- 16: Don’t Talk to Me About Sewing Machines (to rescue me from selling sex): Videos
- 12: Nordic Network: Sex workers and social workers meet
- 10: Getting money to prevent sex trafficking even if there isn’t any: London Olympics
- 05: One London borough wants to End Demand: Clients of sex workers beware
- 02: Girls who buy sex from beach boys: Sex tourism in Bali
- 28: Sex Panic and the Punitive State: Where’s prostitution? What happened to sex trafficking?
- 25: Sex workers at AWID reject feminist fundamentalism
- 21: The Sex Industry in Spain: Sex clubs, flats, agriculture, tourism
- 15: New York Times’s cheesy ersatz reporting on migrant women, sex work and trafficking
- 09: Anatomy of sex trafficking funding: How to get money for a Rescue project
- 06: Gloria Steinem calls prostitution Body Invasion, as feminists go on quarreling
- 05: Sex workers without sewing machines at AWID in Istanbul
- 01: The Canadian prostitution decision: Class, race, gender and the street
- 27: Sex Work, Trafficking and the Olympics: Call for a Moratorium on Arrests
- 25: Rescue as Scam: Australian charity lies about saving girls from sex slavery
- 22: The Sex Tourist: A prayer to End His Demand
- 19: Chinese sex workers, in and out of China
- 15: Thai sex workers: Anti-trafficking Rescues are Our Biggest Problem
- 09: Knights in Shining Armour: Men who Rescue Sex Workers and Slaves
- 08: Kolkata Sex Worker Collective DMSC Celebrates 20 Years
- 04: Sex on Sunday: Greatest Hits from BBC World Debate on Human Trafficking (for fans)
- 02: Sex Slavery Solved by Sleight of Hand: Siddharth Kara
- 29: Ashton Kutcher Voyeur at Police Raid for Child Pornography
- 23: Forget Victimisation: Granting Agency to Migrants
- 18: Vocational training as Rescue so far mostly useless: sex workers in India
- 14: Letter from the prostitute that didn’t want saving, 1858
- 11: Fallen women, including the one Charles Dickens didn’t save
- 08: Guess a way to guess numbers of trafficking victims and win a big prize!
- 06: Could abolitionists stop mixing up chattel slavery with sex slavery?
- 04: Sex at the Margins available as ebook
- 03: Kristof and the Rescue Industry: the Soft Side of Imperialism
- 01: Gold digging with gold miners: an old tradition
- 29: Changing the mentality of men who buy sex: here’s Madrid
- 25: US Trafficking Office wants your help with imperialist anti-trafficking operations
- 18: Clean-cut girls: Something must be wrong if they are selling sex
- 13: Sex workers and Violence against Women: Utopic Visions or Battle of the Sexes?
- 09: Sex at the Margins in Stockholm: Migration & Prevention
- 07: Sisters of the Night: why prostitution research is the way it is
- 04: Men who buy sex: a nasty group whose DNA should be on file (says Farley)
- 01: Sex on Sunday: Call Girls, good and bad
- 29: Women Doing Things: Not waiting to be saved
- 21: Rescue Industry rejected by trafficking victims, Google notwithstanding
- 18: Alternate Ethics: Why it is okay to lie to researchers, as a sex worker, drug user or anybody else
- 17: Ovanlig panel om prostitution i Stockholm
- 16: Sex work, danger and law in Canada: Xtra!
- 10: Commissario Brunetti’s world-weariness with prostitution, migration and other crimes
- 06: Sex slavery, the eros, ignorance
- 04: Kristof’s seventh-grade sex slave, censorship and colonialism
- 01: Devious smuggling routes for undocumented workers or trafficking victims
- 25: Real media coverage for critique of anti-trafficking Rescue Industry
- 22: The Conceit of Nicholas Kristof: Rescuing sex slaves as saintliness
- 19: Laura in Toronto: VENUE CHANGE for sex trafficking, sex work and rescue talk
- 17: Sex at the Margins in Vancouver: sex trafficking, migrant sex work and rescue
- 16: The Thrill of Rescue: trafficking, slavery and prestige
- 12: Lost Boys and the disclaimer about sex-trafficked ‘foreigners’
- 09: If this were about men, they would be seen as empowered: sex selection, sex trafficking and girls
- 05: Note to researchers: Forget trips to view no sex trafficking in Sweden
- 04: Sex work, migration and the Rescue Industry in Ottawa
- 02: Sex Work Café in Montréal with Stella, Laura and Carol Leigh
- 31: Irresponsible talk on sex work, gender equality, sex tourism and state feminism
- 30: Lancement de Luttes XXX, Montréal: Travailleuses du sexe
- 27: Irish government uses my writing on Swedish anti-prostitution law without mentioning my name: theft or taboo?
- 26: Good intentions: what religions have, right? Nonsense on sex trafficking
- 25: Sex offenders and clients of sex workers: creating monsters
- 24: Sex scandals: Mrs Robinson, the Pope and Julian Assange
- 20: Teen prostitutes don’t want to be saved so they must be brainwashed, right?
- 19: Decriminalise sex work says Society for the Study of Social Problems
- 08: Sex work organising at the Sex Worker Open University: workshop
- 03: Civilised loans versus debt bondage and slavery
- 29: Have fun, take a tour to meet victims of sex trafficking, learn to be a saviour
- 25: Leaving Home for Sex: Cosmopolitanism or sex trafficking or both?
- 22: African women in Europe willing to play the trump card God has wedged between their legs – or sex trafficking, if you prefer
- 18: Sex on Sunday: Sex work and sex workers in new film on Mexico, Bangladesh, Thailand
- 13: Women as second-rate citizens of globalisation, 6 October, Brighton, talk by Laura Agustín
- 13: Migranten som resenär: Laura Agustín i Arena
- 10: BBC Human Trafficking Debate now in UK: Mira Sorvino’s Moral Outrage
- 06: Sex at the Margins in a Pleasantly Surprising African Europe
- 03: Migrants in the Mistress’s House: Other Voices in the Trafficking Debate
- 28: Do you know whether or not you are a prostitute? asks a Shanghai sign
- 24: Sex worker activism around the world: a Rights argument
- 21: Even sex-trafficked brothel workers reject raids and rescues
- 17: Man-eating women from the not-so-distant past
- 14: Sunday Shock! There are proud sex workers in Sweden (which some have known all along)
- 12: Youth on the street, selling sex and End Demand
- 08: Disappearing of a Migration Category: Migrants Who Sell Sex
- 03: Sex Industry Pictures: Sex work, sex tourism, brothels, history
- 31: Prostitutes sex-traffick selves to work at Amsterdam airport
- 29: Marriages called human trafficking whether women want them or not: Egypt and the Gulf
- 26: Borrowing money to migrate can go wrong but all is not abusive ‘debt bondage’
- 22: Melissa Farley and the US government Want You to Stop Buying Sex: End Demand
- 22: Melissa Farley and Laura Agustín on Prostitution, with Skeletons
- 17: US spends $109 million to fight human trafficking in 2010
- 15: Trafficking convictions in Sweden: tortuous laws about sex
- 12: Women resist rescue by anti-trafficking police, who admit it
- 09: Child sex trafficking: why statistics should matter to the Rescue Industry
- 05: Only playing stupid about sex trafficking? Pull the other one, Ashton
- 03: Funding for EWL anti-prostitution campaign challenged in parliament
- 29: Institutionalised arrogance: once again, the Trafficking in Persons report
- 26: The (Crying) Need for Different Kinds of Research: Not all is trafficking and AIDS
- 22: Bedford v Canada: Report from the courtroom on prostitution law and sex work
- 19: Man licking women will make men stop buying sex? Anti-prostitution feminism goes wacky
- 18: Not sex trafficking: False Papers as a means to migrate
- 16: The Sex in ‘Sex Trafficking’: about sex acts and nationality
- 16: Le sexe dans «la traite sexuelle»
- 15: Trabalho sexual é trabalho: Porto, Portugal
- 12: Staying calm about trafficking and the Olympics: reasonable testimony in a London council meeting
- 10: Sex at the Margins a Trieste: Casa Internazionale delle Donne
- 08: New Zealand fails to exclude migrants from its sex industry
- 05: The Bad Vibrations of Anatomical Fundamentalism: World Gender War
- 01: Conviction and punishment in Sweden for buying sex, 1999-2009
- 30: Le monde mystérieux du sexe à travers les frontières: migration et traite
- 27: Ambassador CdeBaca’s incoherent ideas on trafficking and slavery
- 24: Sex at the Margins a Roma e Messina: Laura Agustín on migration and the sex industry
- 22: Sweatshop jobs or sex work in Cambodia: Rescue Industry fails to understand
- 21: Migrant maid unlikely to risk all for sex, even if guest is DSK
- 14: On the road in Andalucía
- 09: Pickups, loose women, good-time girls, prostitutes: enemies who carried disease
- 05: Rescue Industry history: Magdalene laundries in Ireland, sex workers enslaved
- 30: Rapport douteux sur la loi d’achat de sexe, Svenska Dagbladet
- 30: Quitter son pays pour le sexe
- 30: La loi suédoise contre l’achat de sexe la prostitution, la traite: efficacité pas prouvée
- 30: L’utilisation irresponsable des données relatives à la traite: Loi suédoise contre l’achat de sexe
- 30: Derrière le visage heureux de la loi suédoise anti-prostitution
- 30: La fumée dans les yeux: l’évaluation de la loi anti-prostitution suédoise offre de l’idéologie, pas de la méthodologie
- 30: Rapport suédois basé sur de mauvais chiffres danois de la prostitution de rue
- 30: Pas de méthode dans l’évaluation de la loi Suédoise contre l’achat de sexe
- 30: Grandes prétentions, peu de preuves: la loi de la Suède contre l’achat de sexe
- 26: Denmark’s Grosse Freiheit: Red-light name for anti-prostitution Rescue Industry event
- 21: London Olympics and the spectre of trafficking: police already repressing sex work
- 19: Migranten som resenär (sexindustrin inkluderade) : Lauras artikel i Arena
- 17: Sex Workers on Sunday: what people say themselves about exchanging money for sex
- 15: Europe’s anti-prostitution initiatives multiply: EU itself and now France
- 14: Women who sell sex do not fall into two neat categories, the Strong and the Weak
- 11: Truckers, truck stops, lot lizards and sex trafficking victims: what confusion
- 09: Moving to Africa to save trafficking victims?
- 07: Good news: Strangers Seldom Kidnap Children in New York (a non-trafficking story)
- 05: Psy theories come to trafficking: first brainwashing, now Stockholm Syndrome
- 02: Sex slavery scare called a waste of time in Kansas
- 31: Social movement mainstreaming: Anti-trafficking by DJs, by country musicians and at film festival
- 29: Bangalore sex workers reject rescue by Supreme Court judge
- 27: Sex on Sunday: What’s a nice girl like you doing doing sex work?
- 25: Prohibir anuncios de contactos no combate la trata ni en Mexico ni en ninguna parte
- 23: New Sexuality Studies: including sex work, migration and trafficking
- 20: Sex on Sunday: Are clubs sexier? what is a sex club?
- 17: Profiling of trafficking victims: Women migrants who ‘look like prostitutes’ or ‘act out’
- 15: Review of Sex at the Margins in American Ethnologist
- 13: Sex on Sunday: Games, porn, sexism, gender and more games
- 11: Surrogate mothers now said to be victims of trafficking
- 08: Precarious, flexible labour and the sex work connexion
- 06: Sex on Sunday: Sex::Tech, Porn Research and a Long Kiss
- 04: Technology as a check on migration (I mean trafficking): good luck, Nigeria
- 02: Sex tourism at guesthouses by older lgbt people? Bring in the anti-trafficking police immediately
- 28: International marriage broking called trafficking, of course
- 25: Hating sex workers, and parodies thereof, and a Copenhagen event
- 22: Trafficking estimates/guesses/fantasies, with and without sex and slavery
- 20: Sex on Sunday: Foreign brides in Taiwan, Celebrity (not Julian Assange) accused of rape in Mexico, Asexuality and romance
- 17: They Speak, But Who Listens to (Migrant) Sex Workers?
- 14: Extremist Feminism in Swedish government: Something Dark
- 12: Mrs Mubarak’s Anti-Trafficking Project Endangered: Imelda Marcos, anyone?
- 08: The right to have rights: Undocumented migration and health care in Germany
- 06: Sex on Sunday Special: What do we have in common? What would a counter-campaign look like?
- 04: Naked Anthropologist emailings and facebook: how to get Laura Agustín’s news
- 03: Desiring different others, different colours, and even paying them
- 01: Texas prostitution policy sends sex workers to jail, costs taxpayers a fortune
- 30: Sex on Sunday: Girls in Berlin, Morocco, Algeria and Bangladesh
- 29: Prostitute, Amanti, Protette: Berlusconi’s world and stigma against sex workers
- 27: People-smuggling from Turkey: the sheep trade
- 25: How the terms trafficking, smuggling and migration are mixed and muddled
- 23: Sex on Sunday: Sexy hanging out
- 22: BBC World Debate on Trafficking Online: Sex, lies and videotaping
- 21: Super Bowl fans greeted with End Demand (for paid sex) billboards in Texas
- 19: Skarhed admits scientific method was lacking in evaluation of Swedish law against buying sex
- 17: Breakthrough: anti-trafficking activist says I have the right to speak
- 16: Sex on Sunday: Chicago’s Leather Museum, Portland’s trafficking myth and Barcelona escort interviewed
- 13: Naked Anthropologist interviewed about sex trafficking, the BBC and run-in with movie star
- 11: Becoming Miss America by rescuing trafficking victims on the India-Nepal border?
- 09: Sex on Sunday: Porn, horror, brutishness, sex and law, damned law
- 07: Counting undocumented migrants, trafficking victims or not, involves statistical acrobatics
- 06: Regulating Sex: Seminar in London
- 04: Chinese trafficked sex workers refuse rescue from Congo
- 02: Sex on Sunday: Taxi queens, English teachers in Korea and Picasso’s soliciting prostitute
- 01: Campaigns against kerb-crawling are part of End Demand, an anti-prostitution strategy that does not support sex workers!
- 30: People-smuggling a plot detail in John Le Carré
- 28: 19th-century techniques for counting prostitutes: same problem as today
- 25: Sex on Sunday: Christmas in the Brothel, Christmas card from a hooker in Minneapolis and Hard Candy Christmas
- 21: Young people who sell sexiness or sex and resist victimisation, in the UK
- 19: Sex on Sunday: 17th-century Japanese prostitute wear, red-light fight in Taiwan and Saudis ban Moroccan women from pilgrimage
- 17: BBC World Debate on Trafficking televised this weekend, with the Naked Anthropologist
- 16: Helping Women Who Sell Sex: The Construction of Benevolent Identities
- 14: Numbers of trafficking victims fall in Germany
- 12: Sex on Sunday: Shoes
- 10: The Naked Anthropologist attends a UN event to end human trafficking
- 08: Is rape rampant in gender-equal Sweden? Re Assange and Wikileaks
- 07: Police streetwalking in Pattaya: Will it prevent human trafficking?
- 05: Sex on Sunday: Historians study prostitutes in 19th-century Victoria, New Orleans and New York
- 02: Once again garbage in, garbage out as a method for counting sex-trafficking victims, from the New York Times
- 28: Sex on Sunday: Dinner dates, money dating, shopping money and sex
- 24: All the scary things a little decriminalisation of prostitution might cause in Canada
- 22: Last stop Zurich, 24 November: Taking the morality out of conversations about commercial sex
- 21: Sex on Sunday: sworn virgins, passionate nunneries and slutty women
- 19: Child trafficking, or kids who leave home, and their pimps and their friends, in Las Vegas
- 17: Me and Catharine MacKinnon on prostitution, gender, patriarchy and sex: not two minds with but a single thought
- 15: Children and sex: prostitution, rescues, statistics, money and the FBI
- 14: Sex on Sunday: sugar daddies, acrobatic vaginas, geishas and sex education
- 12: Kajsa Ekis Ekmans okunnighet om sexarbetare är skrämmande
- 10: Inexperienced sex workers, unscrupulous agents: recipe for trafficking
- 08: Note to anti-prostitutionists: Sex worker movements are nothing to sneer at
- 07: Sex on Sunday: External signs of sex, kiss-in for the pope and army pin-ups
- 05: If this is Tuesday, it must be Fribourg: back-to-back gigs to talk about sex and migration
- 04: Elizabeth Bernstein’s review of Sex at the Margins
- 02: This reporting is better: human smuggling and exploitation of migrants
- 31: Sex on Sunday: megabrothel in Spain, hopeless nannying, family-friendly sex resort
- 28: Sex trafficking: the Next Generation in Odessa
- 25: Saved at last? or Sex Workers Don’t Want Rescue? Stories from India
- 24: Sex on Sunday: gay-4-pay and trans brothel work
- 21: Migrant sex workers in China: massage parlours, hair salons, hotel rooms
- 19: Saving prostitutes or chasing out sex workers: Don Benzi, Abruzzo and deforestation
- 18: Laura Agustín’s calendar in Switzerland: Migration, trafficking and commercial sex
- 17: Sex on Sunday: dancer solidarity, urban strip clubs, judge patronises strippers
- 15: Sexo y marginalidad en América Latina
- 14: Change the world by getting men to stop buying sex: Spain
- 12: Turf wars associated with lap dancing: It’s all about men
- 10: Sex on Sunday: Male chastity belts, demimonde cocottes and sex-lexis
- 08: Battle of Ideas on human trafficking: London, 31 October 2010
- 07: Business strategies brought to campaign to ‘End Demand’ for commercial sex
- 05: Soldiers in a War: Anti-trafficking as Abolitionism
- 03: Sex on Sunday: Non-monogamy explained, if men could menstruate and a schoolteacher who sold sex
- 30: US anti-traffickers think they have a ‘global responsibility’: just more imperialism
- 29: Anyone in or near Geneva 5 October? Sex trafficking and Rescue Industry on the agenda
- 28: Migrant Burmese women forced to marry Chinese men
- 26: Sex on Sunday: A Map of the Lands of Human Sexuality
- 23: Magical thinking of Swedish-law evaluation refuted by new Swedish research
- 21: Prostitution is legal in Switzerland: what’s the catch?
- 20: Prague proposes to ‘legalise prostitution’ – again
- 19: Sex on Sunday: Las Vegas 1941, loveless marriages, sex as work (again)
- 16: Loverboys, trafficked women, job offers, sex work: migration
- 14: Laura Agustín, the Naked Anthropologist, to talk in six Swiss cities on migration, trafficking and sex. Video of Laura!
- 12: Sex on Sunday: escort advertising, sex as work and some people prefer the street
- 09: Sex trafficking victims help themselves to escape: Thais in Spain
- 07: Trafficked men forced to take viagra and sell sex 24 hours a day: Hang on
- 05: Sex Shops on Sunday
- 03: From Postmodern Nadir to Feminist Maverick: Sex at the Margins rides again
- 01: Polémica sobre trabajo sexual, anuncios de contacto, mafias, trata y periodismo
- 31: Can advertising be trafficking? Is Craigslist like Wal-Mart? Is freedom involved?
- 29: Sex on Sunday: Regulated prostitution in Georgia and casual sex is not harmful and may lead to rewarding relationships
- 27: Buying sex abroad causes trafficking at home? Flawed reasoning about the sex industry from Scotland
- 25: Sting operations: clients charged US$1000-2000 for making deals with cop-prostitutes
- 22: Sex on Sunday: Dancing (erotic, exotic, artistic, talented)
- 19: State Feminist shaming keeps Swedish politicians quiet about sex-purchase law
- 17: Police quarrel about which bad method to use to estimate trafficking victims, UK
- 15: Sex on Sunday: ladyboys, lousy jobs besides sex work and Woman as Cello
- 14: Garbage in, garbage out: Irresponsible use of trafficking data
- 13: Important Enemies: Hating sex-work academics or hating research?
- 10: Middlemen: between truck-driving clients and women who sell sex, Uganda
- 08: Sex on Sunday: peep shows, hustlers, nautch girls, men of steel
- 05: It’s never too early to begin panicking about sex trafficking: London Olympics 2012
- 03: What do sex-buying statistics mean? More anti-trafficking efforts, that’s what
- 02: South African trafficking report with no methodology: is this an epidemic?
- 01: Sex on Sunday: gold diggers, hookers and hot dancing in Seattle
- 30: Yokohama red-light district: sex work cubicles
- 27: Anti-trafficking poster objectifies victims: Sheepshead Bay, New York
- 25: Sex on Sunday: non-monogamy, sexless feminists, warped women
- 22: Anti-trafficking campaign with movie star: Emma Thompson doing good
- 20: How ‘Rescue’ from trafficking yet again means police detention and rehabilitation: this time in the Philippines
- 18: Sex on Sunday: shoppers, sirens, maids, marriage y la iglesia católica
- 17: Doubtful report on sex-purchase law, Laura’s article from a Swedish newspaper
- 15: Smoke gets in your eyes: Evaluation of Swedish anti-prostitution law offers ideology, not methodology
- 13: Are brothels bad? When are they good? Why do sex workers oppose obligatory health checks?
- 11: Sex on Sunday: strippers, Paris sewing cafe, spies as femmes fatales
- 09: Serbian sex work: Doprinos „Razvoju“: Novac zarađen prodajom seksualnih usluga
- 07: Swedish report based on wrong Danish numbers for street prostitution
- 04: Behind the happy face of the Swedish anti-prostitution law
- 04: Sex on Sunday: Erotic fiction, NIMBY feminism, porn and Old West madams
- 02: Swedish evaluation of law banning purchase of sex: unsupported claims
- 01: Baby seats in the cars of clients of sex workers: betrayal of Family?
- 29: Japanese sex-industry advertising: hostess business cards, sex information centre, brothel magazine
- 27: Sex on Sunday: outdoor sex work, police entrapment and cheating as good fun
- 25: Racolage ou non? Is sitting by the road ‘soliciting’? When does prostitution begin?
- 24: Agency and prostitution: Sex workers target rich male victims
- 22: Women are not children – remember? Flawed ideas about improving Sweden’s sex-purchase law
- 20: Sex on Sunday: tits sell, hating marriage, loving paternity
- 19: Prohibidas 150 cosas más en las calles de Granada: el trabajo sexual un detalle
- 17: Debunking the 40 000 prostitutes story again: South Africa World Cup
- 15: Mafia bars, hot hustling, Bruce Benderson
- 13: Sex on Sunday: man-hungry hussies, multicolour marriages, taxes and two interviews with smart women
- 11: Decriminalisation of sex work/prostitution: argument from SWEAT
- 10: Sex workers travel on their own to the World Cup, and elsewhere
- 08: Men and football: a recipe for sexual violence?
- 06: Sex on Sunday: chorus boy talk, practically-trafficked nannies and sex offenders as queers
- 01: Piggies and Mall Girls: teens who sell sex in Poland, and their sponsors
- 30: Sex on Sunday: kinky feminism, sex research and ‘hooker’ as an insult
- 27: If you don’t want the porn work, you don’t answer the advert: another aspect of the Rescue Industry
- 25: Rehabilitation: such an old-fashioned concept. If you want out, that’s different
- 23: Sex on Sunday: cougars threaten google, cctv rules the UK, and why Europe needs migration
- 21: Sex at the Margins goes to Poland
- 20: Sex industry safer in New Zealand since decriminalisation
- 18: A post-trafficking view of Sex at the Margins
- 16: Sex on Sunday: queer, jewish, white, secular, latino….
- 13: Prostitutes and clients carouse: Pictures of inequality?
- 11: Anti-demand prostitution law called achievement of ‘gender equality’: Fiji
- 09: Sex on Sunday: nannies, ‘splainers, taxi drivers and sex workers
- 06: Bilbao prohibe ‘prácticas sexuales incívicas’, trabajo sexual incluido
- 04: Bisexual men have wives, tourist boyfriends and also sell sex in Kenya
- 02: Sex on Sunday: bites from elsewhere
- 29: Everyday street prostitution with mobile phones in prohibitionist Pakistan
- 26: Rescues that punish those they’re meant to save: Cambodia again
- 23: ‘With two of us you had backup’: Prostitute on trial because she didn’t work alone, Britain
- 22: Redadas contra el trabajo sexual, México DF: una excusa para limpiar las calles
- 15: Transactional sex and bartered sex: Is there a good reason to distinguish from commercial sex?
- 12: Laura to give classes on migration, gender, the sex industry: Switzerland
- 08: Lap dancing as sexual entertainment: Britain
- 06: This won’t stop trafficking: UK law on exploitation and gain
- 02: Easy to travel? Think again: Surveillance and policing at European borders
- 31: Témoinage de Karen, une prostituée lyonnaise
- 29: World Cups, the sex industry and panics about trafficking: health, not morals, can be basis for policy
- 26: Copenhagen seminar: Rescue industry and migrant struggles
- 25: Mujeres migrantes empleadas domésticas y su trabajo feudal: Migrants demonstrate in Spain over feudal conditions of domestic work
- 22: Fish for money, not for sex: opportunistic sex work
- 18: Otaku sex, virtual girlfriends, cosplay: is paid sex with real people best?
- 15: Women must be allowed to massage soldiers of all sexes: Swedish gender-equality policy on the ground
- 11: Migrant sex workers, medieval Japanese
- 10: Trafficking: Framing the questions, Providing the proofs
- 08: Kamathipura red lights give way to skyscrapers: Mumbai
- 04: Sex worker union raises prices in Ghana
- 01: Mayor asserts his personal morality is above the law: New South Wales
- 26: ‘Sex-hungry’ babes lure and trick client-victims: a change from the usual
- 24: Male prostitutes, Russia
- 18: Egypt: ‘Prostitutes’ are not whores, and vice-versa
- 15: UNAIDS People on the Move, including mobile sex workers and their clients
- 11: Eating sandwiches and selling sex in the street: Offending whose sensibilities?
- 08: Prohibido: Sexo y otras actividades callejeras | Prohibited: Sex and other street activities
- 04: ‘Economic’ an insult only when applied to migrants: Israel builds fences to keep them out
- 01: Swedish film about German brothel: Why do men buy sex?
- 28: Red-light raids said to promote ‘online brothels’, Singapore
- 25: Sex industry diversifies, Pakistan
- 22: Stop moralising about our sex lives: Laura’s debate article in Swedish newspaper
- 21: Migrant farm workers in Italy: Any identity but victims?
- 18: Good sex, equal sex: Do feminists have better sex?
- 14: Sex-work money contributes to ‘Development’
- 11: Police to demolish sex businesses in Jakarta
- 09: Sex on Sunday: Saving sex tourists
- 07: Moral duty to raid brothels, Edinburgh: Ian Rankin and Inspector Rebus
- 04: Mobile sex workers spend holidays working in Sonagachi
- 02: Dans la camionnette: Money-sex exchange inside vans: Italy, France
- 28: Soho, Times Square, Hamburg, New Orleans: Sex industry in black and white
- 23: Ordenanza anti-prostitución enfrentada en Granada: Civil society confronts Granada’s attempt to control street prostitution
- 21: MSM, some sex workers, want services without being counted and outed, Kenya
- 17: Student sex workers: ‘It’s not only about the money. I love to have a lot of attention’
- 14: 扫黄 Sweeping the yellow in China’s sex-industry-standardised capital
- 09: What does sex work have to do with climate change? Anti-prostitution campaign at Climate Conference, Copenhagen
- 07: Studentesse e precarie in solidarietà con le sex workers: Women are not victims or social problems, Rome
- 02: Sex workers and researchers defend clients in Vancouver
- 30: Undocumented migrants, inflexible employment systems
- 26: Sex workers arrested because they carry condoms: New York law
- 23: Rhode Island sex workers out of business
- 18: All-Asian brothels with no trafficking, Queensland
- 16: Sexo y marginalidad: Sex at the Margins translated to Spanish
- 11: Violence Against Women: Too much of a bad thing
- 09: Sex workers choose Pune over Mumbai’s rising rental prices
- 04: Policing sex trafficking in Rio, with farcical elements
- 02: Red lights, sexual warmth, paid sex
- 30: The Other Swedish Model
- 26: Trafficking as White Slavery, Chicago, 100 years ago
- 21: Hay que tener una visión de las cosas: Mujeres brasileiras en la industria del sexo en España
- 19: Myanmar migrants in factories and brothels, Thailand
- 15: Exiting in the opposite direction: from maids to sex workers in Ethiopia
- 12: The antithesis of love? Dan Allman reviews Sex at the Margins
- 09: Migrants, favours, protection, sex: examples from Embracing the Infidel
- 05: What Vice Squads do to stop street prostitution, Cape Town
- 01: Jesus loves strippers: Christian outreach
- 28: Migrant sex workers in hair salons and saunas, Wuhan, China
- 23: La Calle: Prostitución y por qué trabajar allí | Prostitution: Why sex work in the street
- 17: English teacher meets hostess, South Korea standbar
- 14: Massage Parlours and Saunas in the daylight
- 08: Naked ladies dance for men: Stripping and sex in New York
- 03: Is swinging (not) part of the sex industry?
- 31: Phuket’s Sex Tourism, Wife Seeking, Thai/tourist Marriages and a husband’s voice?
- 27: Beirut’s sex tourism, sex industry, sex work – and a pimp’s voice
- 25: Por qué no se puede sacar a las prostitutas migrantes: Why migrant sex workers cannot be got rid of easily
- 24: Irregular migration, Informal economies, Sex work: Metropolis Conference
- 20: Kissing rooms in Korea: new sex-industry wrinkle
- 18: Stripper class-action suit challenges independent-contractor status, Boston
- 17: Ships, shipping, seamen and sex work
- 14: Diese Frauen sind nicht naiv: Interview with Laura Agustín by Neue Zürcher Zeitung
- 12: Spanish bars, Sicilian flats, UK terrace houses: discreet sites of the sex industry
- 11: Ghana Sex Workers Hold Elections
- 10: Bank of Japan counts brothels to gauge demand for sex entertainment
- 07: Taxi-drivers protest police discrimination against migrant sex workers, Mallorca: Taxistas denuncian discriminación policial contra prostitutas migrantes
- 06: Adult entertainment, Licensing, Dance, Burlesque, Sex, Camden
- 05: Love Hotels, No-Tell Motels: Discretion desired, sex work allowed
- 03: Goa’s sex industry: research on how and where and who’s involved
- 02: Trabajadoras sexuales peruanas en el Congreso Nacional: Sex worker testimony in Perú’s Congress
- 30: Tax on sex work where prostitution is illegal? Uganda
- 29: Cross-dressing, Cosplay and the Sex Industry
- 27: Cambodian report damns law for confusing trafficking with sex work
- 24: Case history, transgender migrant sexworker, Kyrgyz Republic
- 23: How to move street prostitution indoors and across borders: Italy and Switzerland
- 21: Controlar el espacio urbano como política de la prostitución: Improving urban space by cleaning out prostitutes, Spain
- 20: Brothel discounts in Germany for green and unemployed customers
- 16: Burlesque in New York and the Exotic World
- 14: European brothels in the daylight
- 13: Changing prices for sex work in Sonagachi, a Kolkata red-light district (from the Naked Anthropologist)
- 11: Taiwan: decriminalization of prostitution and the classic debate
- 09: Prevention of trafficking? Keeping women at home, more like
- 06: West Africa’s children: are they trafficked? What are child rights?
- 03: New Statesman: The Myth of Trafficking
- 01: Is Decriminalization of Prostitution Harm Reduction?
- 29: Marcha de trabajador@s sexuales en Perú: un bochinche/Sex workers march in Lima
- 26: TIP: Trafficking in Persons, the No-Methodology Report
- 24: What Not to Wear if you want to be French, and other tales of sex and women
- 22: What’s Wrong with the Trafficking Crusade? TIP Report Revisited
- 19: Migrant clients, table and taxi dances and sex work in New York
- 17: Red-light district razed in Goa, sex industry and trafficking take new forms
- 14: Decriminalising sex work only half the battle: South Africa
- 11: Making money on sex in Malaysia: massage or ‘Rent a Wife?’
- 08: Childhood, trafficking research, agency and cultural contradictions
- 04: Enjo kosai: compensated dating (or child prostitution) in Japan
- 01: Laws to control prostitution ineffective and irrational
- 28: Signs with SEX on a New Zealand street: escorts and schools
- 25: Gay tourism, ‘lewd adverts’ and the sex industry in Tel Aviv
- 21: 1 de Maio em Lisboa: Sex workers march in Lisbon on May Day
- 18: Albertine (Oslo’s honoured prostitute) and her lovers, clients, pimps
- 13: Learning English to Become a Sex Worker: Benin
- 11: Exotic sex: diversity, ethnicity, whiteness and local prices
- 09: Sex Work: A Review of Recent Literature
- 04: Good Sex, Bad Sex: Sex Law, Crime and Ethics
- 02: How self-smuggling looks: Calais
- 30: How people-smuggling looks: Gambia to the Canaries
- 27: Whiteness, diversity, multiculturalism and New Zealand’s PRA
- 24: Sex Trafficking Fantasies in New Zealand
- 22: Street walkers and vigilantes in a New Zealand community
- 20: New Zealand prostitution law, sex work, anti-migration and anti-trafficking
- 15: Webcam girls, virtual sex, sex tourism and the tax man
- 13: Bollywood’s melodramatic portrayal of prostitutes, sex workers, call girls
- 10: Sayad’s The Suffering of the Immigrant: book review by Laura Agustín
- 08: Chicha Mariani busca a su nieta: another kind of human trafficking
- 06: Male and trans sex workers, travel, organised crime: But sex trafficking from Korea?
- 03: Sex industry adapts to anti-trafficking laws, Korea
- 01: Sex worker rally in London against Policing and Crime Bill
- 30: No more sex-industry jobs via UK Jobcentres?
- 27: Karaoke: Developments in entertainment, associations with the sex industry
- 23: Ni victimes ni coupables: Syndicat | New sex worker union announced in Paris
- 20: Bad reporting: prostitution law, nationalism and the BBC
- 18: UK police raids to find undocumented workers: expensive overkill
- 16: Casa de citas, America Latina: La normalidad del trabajo sexual en un sitio pobre
- 13: Don Kulick’s review of Sex at the Margins
- 11: Trafficking, smuggling, chaos: Undocumenteds aiming at UK
- 07: Paying to watch brothel sex: voyeurs, exhibitionists and reality sex tv
- 04: Brothel photos from World War II France
- 02: Sex Traffic at London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts
- 27: Border Thinking
- 25: Women as people-smugglers and traffickers
- 23: Libro Trabajar en la industria del sexo/Book called Working in the Sex Industry
- 20: Host bars and Gender Equality: Men who serve women
- 18: Can national sexual conversations change? sex and money in the USA
- 16: How does the sex industry look? a facebook album
- 13: Chinese women, Australian brothel: money and murder but no trafficking
- 11: Male sex worker in Kenya with ‘important’ clients
- 08: Smuggled people get help from border police themselves
- 02: Will a famous prostitute be allowed to rest alongside Calvin in Geneva?
- 30: Subtleties within the trafficking idea: Non-reductionism in news from Moldova
- 28: Academic reviews of Sex at the Margins as of December 2008
- 26: Only 10% of alleged trafficking cases in the US confirmed
- 22: UK unemployment offices carry adverts for jobs in the sex industry: Wrong or Right?
- 19: I’m a girlfriend, they’re my friends: GFE is nothing new
- 16: What’s happening in Amsterdam? An overview of changing prostitution law
- 14: Trabajo sexual y derecho al trabajo: Sex work and the right to work
- 12: Prostituting Women’s Solidarity: Another voice questions the extent of sex trafficking
- 09: Sometimes satire is the best revenge: Anti-trafficking news from Norway
- 07: Strippers spoof Sarah Palin at a Vegas strip club
- 05: False papers and ‘illegal migrants’: Faujis in London
- 02: ‘We live in an age of helping victims’: new review of Sex at the Margins
- 29: Anti-sex-trafficking Law Causes Police Violence in Cambodia
- 26: Why ‘My Family Came Legally’ Probably Isn’t True
- 19: 對 「 發 展 」 的 貢 獻 : 金 錢 促 使 性 交 易 / Contributing to ‘Development’: Money Made Selling Sex
- 17: More cultural study of commercial sex, including sex tourism, stripping, rentboys, brothels, courtesans, pornography
- 08: Glidecreme og gode intentioner: Lubricant and good intentions
- 03: The Shadowy World of Sex Across Borders: Anti-sex trafficking proposal in the UK
- 01: Growing demand for sex shops, lapdancing, poledancing and escort agencies
- 26: Sex with animals – another Swedish Model?
- 24: The Femina, a 1930s Berlin club where money and sex met
- 22: Fotos de trabajador@s sexuales en la conferencia de SIDA, DF, Mexico
- 17: Prostituées d’Europe – Prostitute Women and Sex Workers in Europe
- 11: Hustling and Cruising with John Rechy
- 07: Cambodia Ladyboy Rescue Goes Wrong
- 03: Talents Needed for Sex Work – a partial list from the year 2000
- 29: Sex Workers Parade Themselves
- 27: Working in the European Sex Industry
- 21: Prostitute, poveri e irregolari – Controlling migrant women, not helping prostitutes (or sex workers)
- 14: Anti-trafficking: Sexy Sex Work Images on Banknotes
- 08: What’s Wrong with Helping? Another example from the world of sex work
- 05: Knowing Best, Doing Good
- 01: Europe: Grin and bare it, German naturists tell Poles
- 26: Green-card spam resembles smuggling opportunity
- 24: European Conference on Sex Work, Human Rights, Labour and Migration
- 19: Ethnicity and satire
- 15: Unwanted Rescues: A poster from Thailand
- 12: Working on ships, travelling by ship
- 09: Migrant workers wait around for work: a description by Ana Castillo
- 08: Migrants paid to leave Spain
- 05: Ambiguous refugees: Blackbirding in 1943
- 04: Performance de sexoservicio revolucionario
- 03: Plus ça change: Smuggling migrants in 1949
- 03: Interview with Suzi Weissman of KPFK Los Angeles
- 30: Manifesto against new EU migration law
- 17: The Zed Book’s cover
- 17: BBC Radio 4 Thinking Allowed interview with Laura Agustin
- 17: Susie Bright interview with Laura Agustin
- 17: Erotic Award Finalist
- 17: Mas allá de la victimización
- 17: Australian National Radio: Counterpoint interview
- 17: Spiked Review of Sex at the Margins
- 17: Reason: The Myth of the Migrant
- 17: Doug Henwood’s Interview with Laura Agustin
- 17: Le Immigrate Che Vendono Sesso Non Sono Vittime Ne Schiave
- 17: Die Weltwoche Review
- 16: BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour World Cup Prostitutes
- 15: Nicht alle empfinden das Gleiche über Sex
- 15: Atreverse a cruzar fronteras: migrantes que venden sexo
- 15: Trabajar en la industria del sexo
- 15: Le migrazioni delle donne
- 15: Trafficking: return of the ‘white slavery’ scare?
- 15: Bloggingheads Sex Slaves
- 14: Erotic Review’s Review of Sex at the Margins
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