Reported yesterday on ABC Nightline: A porn actor’s positive HIV test, which prompted a temporary shutdown of Los Angeles’ billion-dollar adult film industry Monday night, has reignited the debate over mandatory condom use in X-rated productions…“Testing is not a substitute for condom use, and it never will be,” said Michael Weinstein, president of the AIDS […]
Month: August 2011
The F Word: “The Myths of Bedford v. Canada: Why decriminalizing prostitution won’t help”
Laura Johnston provides an excellent rebuttal of pro-prostitution arguments in The F Word: The argument that decriminalizing prostitution will improve conditions for prostituted women sounds appealing on its surface. The first time I heard it I thought it made sense. But when I began volunteering in a rape crisis centre and shelter and met women […]
Demand Abolition: “Boston Sex Buyers Report”
Last month we noted noted Newsweek’s article on “The John Next Door”. Here is more detail on the underlying report, published in July with support from Demand Abolition and the Hunt Alternatives Fund: Why do some men buy sex while others abstain or even decry such damaging and degrading acts? If we are to eliminate demand […]