Ars Technica reports today: Ex-child prostitute sues Village Voice over sex ads A teenage child trafficking victim has filed a lawsuit against Village Voice Media, for knowingly allowing her pimp to post ads for her “services” on the popular backpage.com. The pimp, Latasha Jewell McFarland, has already pleaded guilty to prostitution charges, but the victim […]
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Pro-Porn Activists Misuse the Law in Fresh Attempt to Suppress Anti-Porn Political Speech
Porn defenders are usually staunch advocates of the First Amendment, but when the issue is speech they don’t like, many can’t resist groping around in the legal code to find a way to shut down analysis and criticism. We encountered this last summer, when the owner of the website Cruising for Sex wrongly claimed that […]
News Roundup: Age of Entry into Prostitution Declining
Ads from the June 12 Valley Advocate: “Consenting Adults” proclaims one of the ads above. An odd phrase to apply to a legitimate massage service, but perfectly understandable for a commercial sex business. Smokescreen phrases like these are often employed by defenders of prostitution in attempts to stifle debate. They are not convincing. Studies that […]
Hartford Pedophile: “Reardon has the potential to go down in the history of the United States of America as one of the biggest monsters in this genre” (explicit)
Porn merchants like Amazing.net/Goflix.com, and their business partners, find that it’s stimulating, entertaining, and/or profitable to sell images of the abuse of the young and the weak. Movies sold at Goflix.com include: Abuse of PowerA young athlete is taken advantage of by his own doctor! A perverted policeman… An innocent cop is bullied by a […]
The Werribee DVD: Group of Boys Sexually Assault Girl; Video Sold in Schools (explicit)
In Australia, a group of teenage boys recently made a DVD of their encounter with a 17-year-old girl by the Werribee River. As you read these excerpts from articles in The Age, ask yourself, where would teenagers get the idea to… Assault a girl sexually as a group, demanding oral sex Exploit a girl they […]
Top 100 Anti-Porn Videos as Compiled by Anti-Pornography Activist Blog
Anti-Pornography Activist Blog has brought together 100 anti-porn videos and more for your convenient reference.“Playlist categories include documentaries, porn star interviews, anti-pornography conference videos, porn addiction/obsession videos, CP80 Internet porn solution videos, anti-porn book author interviews, videos of criminals influenced by porn, debates and panel discussions about pornography, anti-pornography activist videos, Girls Gone Wild and […]
Ricky Martin Campaigns Against Child Sex Trafficking
The Ricky Martin Foundation has targeted the sexual exploitation of children since 2004. Over the next six months, Martin will appear on Dominican television and radio to warn about human trafficking and sexual exploitation. “According to some reports, more women are trafficked from the Dominican Republic than from any other country in the Western Hemisphere,” […]
New York Times: “The Girls Next Door”; Worldwide Sex Trafficking; Role of Porn
Our opponents like to focus on the handful of women who have become relatively rich selling sex, women who have achieved a measure of choice and control in their lives (example). The reality for vast numbers of other participants in the sex trade is far less appealing, as The New York Times makes clear in […]
Testimony from Northampton: “The murder of real women is being sold as sexual entertainment” (explicit language)
Massachusetts legislators heard testimony about peoples’ encounters with porn at a hearing on March 16, 1992. This account appears in In Harm’s Way: The Pornography Civil Rights Hearings (p.399-401). Testimony from Northampton Resident I live in Northampton and I do educational slide shows about pornography and violence against women. I want to talk first about […]
Dartmouth Law Journal Article: It Should be Legal to Possess Child Porn; Our Rebuttal
Even the ACLU opposes child pornography, at least when real children are depicted. Nevertheless, some people appear to remain irresistibly attracted to the challenge of arguing that possession of child porn should be legal. Cortelyou Kenney graduated summa cum laude with High Honors in Comparative Literature from Dartmouth College in 2005. Her thesis on political […]