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Of Victims And Vixens--The Feminist Clash Over Prostitution - by Angela Bonavoglia
In the wake of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer’s stunning fall from grace in March 2008 for spending some $80,000 on call girls, prostitution has come way out of the closet.
•With Video
• Art by Tiana Markova-Gold
Feminist Divisions Cause Real-World Repercussions - by Juhu Thukral
The idea of sex workers fighting for their human rights is a foreign concept to most people, even those who identify politically as progressives or feminists. •With Video
Stop the Traffick: Stiffening State Laws Helps Trapped Women - by Sonia Ossorio
I know a woman from South America who spent her first night in the Big Apple in a brothel overlooking Roosevelt Avenue in Queens.
©Audrey AnastasiReligious Repugnance Obscures Need for Sex Work Decriminalization - by Rita Nakashima Brock
In the mid-1990s, Asian feminists concerned about the sexual exploitation of children and women and the growing epidemic of HIV/AIDS urged Susan Thistlethwaite and me to write a book about the sex industry.
“It’s Not TV, Its Sexploitation”
Protest Against Home Box Office
- by Norma Ramos
HBO advertises the Cathouse DVD this way: If you've got a credit card, it's all there for the asking at Nevada's Moonlite Bunny Ranch.
Nothing About Us, Without Us - by Ann Jordan
Scores of women in Cambodia were rounded up and held in detention where they report being robbed, beaten and gang raped. •With Video
Does Working Girls Still Work? - by Ariel Dougherty
Working Girls is a classic film on sex work, which many professors report using in college courses for discussion purposes. •With Video
From the Publisher: Divide, Conquer and Sell - by Merle Hoffman
I learned very early about the use of my sexuality and the power it had...
Shere Hite
Female Orgasm Today: The Hite Report's Research Then and Now - by Shere Hite
"I always wanted to have orgasm during intercourse with him -- seems like the impossible dream."
On the Frontline of Sex Wars - by Carol Leigh
Prostitutes are "the only street fighters we've got," wrote radical feminist Ti-Grace Atkinson in her 1974 book, Amazon Odyssey. •With Video
Naked Truth: Reality and Fantasy Are (Stripper) Poles Apart - by Bernadette Barton
Every semester I assign my undergraduate students in my gender and sexuality courses a class project on the media.
The Art Perspective- by Linda Stein
Suzanne Lacy's 1974 Project on Prostitution
The Poet's Eye - Poems by Minnie Bruce Pratt and Erin Whitfield
Two Views - The lingering aftereffects of prostitution
• Art by Audrey Anastasi
Theater Arts - by Alexis Greene
“RUINED” by Lynn Nottage Links War, Horror and Prostitution, a Preview
©Lynn Nottage: "Ruined"
From the On The Issues Print Archive
On The Issues: Summer 1995Pimping: The World's Oldest Profession
by Kathleen Barry
On The Issues Magazine
Summer 1995
Across nation-states, pimping, "living off the earnings of a prostitute," is illegal. But proprostitution movements in the West now propose to decriminalize pimping so that pimps can be treated as lovers or husbands, not enslavers of prostitute women. But it is a fact of prostitution that once a woman "tricks" for a man, she is never again not his "whore." He thinks of her as such, whether or not he is otherwise known to her as husband, lover, brother or father. -READ FULL STORY-
Sex Work and Prostitution -- Beholders See Different Issues In Past Stories
by Mary Lou Greenberg
Women and sex -- for pleasure, for money, as an oppression, as a profession -- is a theme found throughout the print life (1983-1999) of On The Issues Magazine.
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