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General Information
- Model Legislation for Decriminalization of Prostitution (South Australia)
- Compiled Statistics
- World Charter For Prostitutes' Rights
- Decriminalization and Legalization: Defining Terms
- Law Enforcement and Police Abuse
- Diversity/Community: Racism and Discrimination; Homelessness; Immigrant, Transgender, Male and Youth Issues
- North American Task Force on Prostitution- Bibliography
- Papers on Trafficking, Prostitution, Sex Panic and more from Commercial Sex Information Services
- Resources on Male Prostitution
Featured Pages
- Angela Davis Supports Decriminalization of Prostitution
- Professor Ronald Weitzer: Growing Moral Panic Over Prostitution and Sex Trafficking
- Professor Ronald Weitzer: Anti-Prostitution: Flawed and Skewed Research
- Bad Trick List: Sex Professionals of Canada
- 'Be a Good Date' by Sex Professionals of Canada
- Working In The Nevada Brothels
- Police Abuse and Prostitutes: On the Streets
- Police Release Torture-Rapist Because Victim is a Prostitute
- Prostitution and the Internet: Interview with Mike Godwin of The Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Emi Koyama's site with sex worker, intersex, anti-racist politics and buttons
- School For Johns also Professor John Lowman on John's Schools
- Police Abuse Website-Report Police Abuse (Penet recommends anonymous reports only-email penet@bayswan.org for info)
- Don't Slouch. Don't Swear. When in Doubt, Smile.
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- Thoroughly Modern Madam
- Margo St. James: 1998 Campaign for San Francisco Supervisor
- Art and Activism: Scarlot Harlot
International Prostitution Issues, World Conference on Women
- Swedish Prostitution Laws: Effects on Sex Workers
- Trafficking Policy Research Project
- Legal Agenda for Migrant Prostitutes and Trafficked Women on the Internet
- Network of Sex Work Projects
- Redefining Prostitution as Sex Work on the International Agenda
- Sex Workers at the United Nations World Conference on Women, Beijing '95
- The
Trafficking Debate:
Does Anti-Trafficking = Anti-Prostitute? - Migration,
Trafficking and Sex Work: Links and Papers from Laura Agustin
Bilingual: Espanol - English - Laura Agustin: Challenging Place: Leaving Home for Sex
- Laura Agustin: Cuestionar el concepto del lugar
- Indian Prostitutes Organize For Their Rights
- Speech by Dina Chan - Sex Workers Union of Toul Kork, Cambodia
- Sex
Workers Struggle and Success: Taiwan Association of Licensed Prostitues
(TALP)& Collective of Sex Workers and Supporters (COSWAS), Taiwan - Sex
Industry - A Guide to Occupational Health and Safety in the New Zealand
Sex Worker Blogs
- Whore Madonna-Juliana Piccillo
- Bound Not Gagged: Sex Worker Blog
- Kama: Devadasi Escort
- Libertarias
- This Monsters Teeth
- Renegade Evolution
- Mariko Passion, Educated Whore, Urban Geisha
- Serpent
Libertine, Sly Sex Pro
Sex Workers' Rights Organizations and Websites
(Below is a partial list. Click here for roster of sex workers groups around the world)
International- Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee (DMSC), India
- Dr, Jana of Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee (DMSC), India
- Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers
- Manifesto: Mahila Samanwaya Committee, Calcutta
- The International Seminar of Sex Workers in Asia and Pacific
- Network of Sex Work Projects
- Stella (Montreal, Canada)-Bilingual
- Stepping Stone, Halifax, Canada
- The Naked Truth (strippers organization, Canada)
- Maggies of Toronto, Canada
- Cabiria: France
- Crossroads Women's Centre
- Madonna eV:Germany
- Hydra:Germany
- Maiz:Austria
- Zi Teng: Sex workers in Hong Kong
- Commentary on Swedish Laws by Swedish Sex Worker Activist
- Womyn's Agenda For Change, Cambodia
- The Red Thread, Netherlands
- Asosida-La Fuerza de la Sociedad Civil-Chile
- SWOP: Sex Worker's Outreach Project (NSW, Australia)
- Sex Workers' International Media Watch
- Scarlet Alliance: Australia
- Sex Worker Assistance Guide: Australia
- Red Light Radio Collective: A Project of SIN and PASA
- W.I.S.E- Workers In Sex Emplyment- ACT, Australia
- Streetwalking The World: News Magazine for Internet Escorts
- Prostitution Information Centre: Amsterdam
- Sex Worker's Alliance of Vancouver
- New Zealand Prostitutes Collective
- Davida,
Brazil
- Sex Workers Rights Advocacy Network in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia
- Sex
Workers Association in Lima, Peru
United States
- COYOTE, San Francisco
- ISWFACE: International Sex Worker Foundation for Art, Culture and Education
- Sex Workers Outreach Project (SF Bay Area)
- Hook Online: Non-Profit Project For Men in the Sex Industry
- Exotic Dancer's Alliance
- Danzine
- North American Task Force on Prostitution
- COYOTE, Los Angeles and ISWFACE
- PONY-Prostitutes of New York
- PENet-Prostitutes' Education Network
- USPROStitutes
Collective
U.S. Sex Workers' Service Organizations and Websites
- Coalition on Prostitution, San Francisco
- Stepping Stone, Halifax, Canada
- St. James Infirmary, San Francisco
- Project SAFE (Philadelphia)
- Different Avenues, Washington D.C.
- HIPS, Washington D.C.
- AIM Health Care: Sex Workers in The Adult Film Industry, Los Angeles
- STORM:
Sex Trade Opportunities for Risk Minimization
International Sex Workers' Service Organizations and Websites
- Europap: Sex Worker Health in Europe
- TAMPEP (Transnational AIDS/STD Prevention Among Migrant Prostitutes in Europe Project)
- International: Medical Advocates for Social Justice: Sex Worker Health
- Research for Sex Work: HIV Prevention, Health Promotion and Prostitution
- Research for Sex Work: The Journal
- City
of Port Phillip: Prostitution & Sex Work
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- Best Practices Policy Project
- Sex Work and HIV: Links and Articles
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- John Lowman, SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY (John's School Research)
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