Male Violence, Prostitution, Rape Culture

Disproportionate and Unique Health Risks for Women in Prostitution

This blog post is available in video form. You’ve probably seen a lot of people write or say things like the quote above. It’s usually well-intentioned: we don’t want to other women in the sex trade, by suggesting that what they do for a living is “dirty” or “disgusting”. We don’t want a future potential employer to think that they’re interviewing someone who is physically … Continue reading Disproportionate and Unique Health Risks for Women in Prostitution

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Male Violence, Prostitution, Rape Culture

Who is killing whom, where, how and why in German prostitution?

Warning: Disturbing content! The state fully sanctioning the sex trade does not prevent lethal violence against people in it – it may even provide its own justifications for violence. So indicates the first-ever study into murders in the German sex trade written by Manuela Schon and Anna Hoheide, as well as my own assessment of 40 years of cases from the wiki project “Sex Industry … Continue reading Who is killing whom, where, how and why in German prostitution?

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How To Argue For Prostitution Abolition, Male Violence, Prostitution, Rape Culture

Consent Culture and Sex-Buying Cannot Co-Exist

This piece was in part inspired by Jonah Mix’s “Enthusiastic Consent and Prostitution are Incompatible.” Read it for a fuller picture. We could give as many lessons on sexual consent as we like but as long as it remained legal for anyone to go online or drive down a street and buy a woman and very often a girl, the confusion would remain.  Mia De … Continue reading Consent Culture and Sex-Buying Cannot Co-Exist

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How To Argue For Prostitution Abolition, Male Violence, Pornography, Prostitution

The Fight for the Nordic Model in Israel with Luba Fein

On Nov 1st, feminist activist Luba Fein joined me on my YouTube channel to discuss the abolitionist movement in Israel, the successes and ongoing struggels, various sex trade myths especially around female poverty and much more: Here are is a slightly abbreviated version of the interview, for those who prefer reading to listening: Elly Arrow: Israel is the most recent country to adopt the Nordic … Continue reading The Fight for the Nordic Model in Israel with Luba Fein

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Male Violence, Prostitution, Women in History

The myth of the safe and privileged “high class hooker”

This blogpost is available in audio form. I have a bone to pick both with the crowd that advocates for the normalization of prostitution – specifically the many casual supporters of a normalized sex trade, who like to trot out cases of women making four digit sums a night as proof that the sex industry is a safe, freely chosen and fantastic deal for women. … Continue reading The myth of the safe and privileged “high class hooker”

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Male Violence, Prostitution, Rape Culture

Final Thoughts on Prostitution Law Affecting Children

Law and the media create the environment in which children grow up and pimps and paying pedocriminals seek out targets. Permissive attitudes towards men buying access to and profiting off the prostitution of adults impacts on children despite attempts at differentiating the two in law. On this matter it is irrelevant whether a country legalizes prostitution and attempts regulating or whether it takes the laissez-faire … Continue reading Final Thoughts on Prostitution Law Affecting Children

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Male Violence, Prostitution, Rape Culture

What Does a “Harm Reduction” Approach Mean for Exploited Minors?

The NSWP brief contains reasonable suggestions and demands – such as the full decriminalization of young adults and children in prostitution, easier access to health care and a non-judgmental approach by law enforcement and support services. Nonetheless applying the “harm reduction approach” to child sexual exploitation leaves society and children with the impression that there isn’t necessarily something harmful about being sexually accessed by adult … Continue reading What Does a “Harm Reduction” Approach Mean for Exploited Minors?

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Male Violence, Prostitution, Rape Culture

More Pedocriminal Apologetics from the Pro Prostitution Lobby

Because the term “pedophilic” means “child loving” I have decided to use the word “pedocriminal” instead to highlight that an adult sexually abusing a child is comitting a crime – never an act of love or affection. I’m not going to make a pronouncement as to whether anyone is born attracted to children – since that isn’t my area of expertise – but let me … Continue reading More Pedocriminal Apologetics from the Pro Prostitution Lobby

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Male Violence, Pop Culture, Prostitution

Exited women on the Impact of Prostitution Normalization on Youth

“Media coverage of those within the sex industry seems to be quite polarising. At one extreme there is the sad, human face of the street walker, who is using it to pay the rent, feed a child or possibly save up for their next drug hit. Then the other extreme, the ‘high end’ escort. The reader is opened up to a world of high fashion, … Continue reading Exited women on the Impact of Prostitution Normalization on Youth

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Male Violence, Prostitution, Rape Culture

Child Trafficking under New Zealand’s Decriminalization

Heralded as an approach with revolutionary difference to German and Swiss style legalization, decriminalization as pioneered in 2003 in New Zealand has long been held up as a viable alternative, but what does it mean in regards to the paid rape of children? The 2008 New Zealand government review of the Prostitution Reform Act (PRA) is often cited as evidence that fears about increased trafficking … Continue reading Child Trafficking under New Zealand’s Decriminalization

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Male Violence, Pornography, Prostitution, Rape Culture

(Pseudo) Child Prostitution Under Legalization

“Teenyland” is a brothel in Cologne, a major German city. It’s selling point? All women on offer are aged 18-19, some of them still finishing high school, some of them “only a few days legal” – collectively nicknamed “lolitas”. This of course is not the only brothel where women are asked to playact pedocriminal scenarios, but it is the most blatant example of men seeking … Continue reading (Pseudo) Child Prostitution Under Legalization

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Male Violence, Prostitution, Rape Culture

How Normalizing Prostitution Protects Child Abusers

Finding yourself irritated or angered by Teen Vogue advertising prostitution to teenage girls? The issue is much bigger than that: Advocates in favor of legalizing or decriminalizing prostitution frequently claim that a change of law on adult prostitution won’t affect any legislation or approaches to the sexual exploitation of children and that child safe guarding concerns are misplaced in the debate on adult prostitution laws … Continue reading How Normalizing Prostitution Protects Child Abusers

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