The 4/16/09 Springfield Republican reports: Woman’s murder in Boston hotel linked to Craigslist advertising of massage services …the killing this week opened a window on a vast and elusive underworld of prostitutes who advertise online and do business at high-end hotels… Tuesday’s victim, a slight 26-year-old who one witness initially believed was a child, had […]
Month: April 2009
Polaris Project: “The Washington Post: A Paper Pimp? (Part Two)”
The Polaris Project has kindly given us permission to reprint this April 10 article from their blog, The North Star. The Polaris Project combats slavery and human trafficking. Author Katherine Chon is the president of Polaris Project. The Washington Post: A Paper Pimp? (Part Two) [Click for Part One] by Katherine Chon The Washington Post […]
Activist Strategies: Cross Country Pimpin’ Tour Protested in Minneapolis
Breaking Free has kindly given us permission to publish their Protest Summary issued on April 7. “Breaking Free, Inc., was established in October 1996, by Vednita Carter, Executive Director, as a non-profit organization serving women and girls involved in systems of prostitution/sex trafficking and other battered women who have been involved in the criminal justice […]
Porn and Escort Ads: An Exploitation Team (explicit language)
Porn and prostitution have long teamed up to exploit women. Porn tells men what to fantasize about. Some then go to prostituted women to act it out. For example, you can buy the following film today (number 3 in the top 100) from Amazing.net/GoFlix.com: Also on sale today is “Fuck My Mom & Me #6” […]
Polaris Project: “The Washington Post: A Paper Pimp?”
The Polaris Project has kindly given us permission to reprint this April 3 article from their blog, The North Star. The Polaris Project combats slavery and human trafficking. Author Katherine Chon is the president of Polaris Project. The Washington Post: A Paper Pimp? (Part One) by Katherine Chon Last year, I spoke with Nomi Levenkron, […]
Case Study: How Michelangelo Signorile Put a Dent in Hollywood’s Homophobia
Michelangelo Signorile (Wikipedia, website) is the author of Queer in America: Sex, the Media, and the Closets of Power. In this passage, he describes how activists cut through the fog of irrelevant First Amendment arguments to get Hollywood moguls to take responsibility for their messages: We were under siege at the time, and I was […]