Media Mentions

2010

NY Bill Allows Sex Trafficking Victims to Clear Prostitution Convictions

The Curvature -- 06.07.2010

Immigrant Sex Slavery Victims Would Get Help from NY Law

Feet in Two Worlds -- 06.07.2010

America vs. Sex Trafficking

Newsweek -- 18.06.2010

New York State Allows Trafficking Survivors to Vacate Prostitution Convictions

Bound, Not Gagged -- 17.06.2010

Albany Moves to Let Sex Trafficking Victims Clear Criminal Records

WNYC -- 17.06.2010

New York and San Francisco Use Condoms as Evidence of Prostitution

change.org -- 12.05.2010

Should Condoms Be Used as Evidence to Prosecute Prostitution?

Gothamist -- 12.05.2010

Sexuality and Gender Law Clinic Supports 'No-Condoms-as-Evidence-of–Prostitution' Bill

Gender and Sexuality Law Blog -- 12.05.2010

Sex workers arrested because they carry condoms: New York law

Nodo50 -- 12.05.2010

Condoms = Arrest?

Ms. Magazine -- 12.05.2010

Carrying Condoms Can Be Cause for Arrest

HousingWorks -- 04.05.2010

Red Light Rights: Integrating a “New” Community

Sex Week at Yale -- 16.02.2010

New York Exotic Dancer in Class Action Over Withheld Tips

FoxNY -- 12.02.2010

Exotic Dancer Alleges Penthouse Executive Club Violates Labor Laws, According to Worker's Legal Team

PRNewswire -- 12.02.2010

NYC Club Stiffed Exotic Dancers On Wages: Suit

Outten & Golden -- 12.02.2010

2009

Raids don't work

Gotham Gazette -- 09.11.2009

Does policing Craigslist actually threaten safety?

Bilerico Project Blog -- 28.09.2009

How Do Prostitutes Pay Their Taxes?

Slate -- 21.09.2009

The perv's guide to NYC

Time Out NY -- 17.09.2009

Criminalizing Sex Work to Combat Trafficking: Rhode Island Considers the Wrong Solution to the Wrong Problem

Alternet -- 04.09.2009

Women in sex-slave case could be eligible for visas

Newsday -- 10.08.2009

Groups oppose bill to criminalize prostitution in R.I.

The Providence Journal -- 27.06.2009

Lawmakers urged to block prostitution bill

The Providence Journal -- 27.06.2009

Advocates slam anti-prostitution bill

WPRI -- 27.06.2009

RI tries again to outlaw indoor prostitution

Seattle Post-Intelligencer -- 27.06.2009

2008

Letter to the editor re: A Better Law Against Trafficking

New York Times -- 01.09.2008

Probe: Diplomats abuse their workers, invoke immunity

Newsday -- 28.07.2008

Sex workers hold local conference

Windy City Times -- 23.07.2008

Letter to the Editor re: Bogus Charges

NY Daily News -- 17.07.2008

Feminist Divisions Cause Real-World Repercussions

On the Issues -- 01.07.2008

First prosecution under New York sex trafficking law

Newsday -- 18.06.2008

Why the Mann Act expansion is bad for women

Feministing.com -- 09.06.2008

Human Trafficking: The Modern Face of Slave Trade

MediaGlobal.org -- 09.06.2008

Prostitution Debate

The CQ Researcher -- 23.05.2008

Who's Trafficked?

RH Reality Check -- 19.05.2008

Sex Work, Trafficking, Understanding the Difference

RH Reality Check -- 06.05.2008

Behind Closed Doors: The Reality of Prostitution

Tell Me More/NPR -- 05.05.2008

Madams Fall While Their Johns Prosper

ABC News -- 02.05.2008

Panel Discusses Prostitution and the Sex Industry

The Record -- 24.04.2008

Task force targets trafficking, abuse in prostitution rings

The Boston Globe -- 18.03.2008

Sex workers need safety, not prosecutors

Women's eNews -- 16.03.2008

Sex trade sparks debate, concern

Schenectady Daily Gazette -- 16.03.2008

Letter to the Editor RE: The Spitzer Scandal, and the Fallout

The New York Times -- 14.03.2008

Human rights advocates shocked by Spitzer's double standard

NY1 News -- 12.03.2008

Prostitution and the Law

OnPoint/NPR -- 12.03.2008

As Spitzer prostitution scandal dominates headlines, a look at the plight of sex workers

Democracy Now! -- 12.03.2008

Letter to the Editor RE: Decriminalize Sex Workers

The New York Times -- 24.02.2008

Letter to the editor re: Don't call it slavery

SFGate -- 20.01.2008

2007

A Modern Slavery

Gotham Gazette -- 01.10.2007

Letter to the Editor RE Data and Anti-Trafficking Policy

The Washington Post -- 26.09.2007

Advocates Criticize Moralistic Policy That Randall Tobias Enforced

Ascribe, The Public Interest Newswire -- 07.09.2007

Melissa Ditmore Interview (MP3)

WBAI -- 07.09.2007

Target of Federal task force

Newsday -- 16.05.2007

Advocates Criticize Moralistic Policy that Randall Tobias Enforced

Feisty Aphrodite -- 06.05.2007

Astronauts Honored; Tobias Gone

Womensenews -- 05.05.2007

Sex Isn't the Only Thing for Sale in Washington

Bloomberg.com -- 03.05.2007

Erotic Services 101

Slate -- 03.05.2007

Washington Sex Scandal: Couldn't Happen to Nicer People

The Nation -- 02.05.2007

The Anti-Prostitution Pledge

Salon -- 02.05.2007

Implementer of Anti-Prostitution Pledge Caught in Call Girl Scandal

Planetwire.org -- 30.04.2007

Juhu Thukral Interview (video)

Good Morning America -- 30.04.2007

PostGlobal: Debating Legalized Prostitution

Washington Post/PostGlobal -- 28.02.2007

Cops should ease up on sex workers to combat violence, advocate says

Metro -- 08.02.2007

Indian-Americans Study, Empower, America

Indolink -- 30.01.2007

2006

To Catch a Serial Killer, Two Different Investigative Paths

New York Times -- 31.12.2006

Letter to the Editor RE Modern-Day Slavery

New York Times -- 17.12.2006

Many Make Safety Pledge; AIDS, Violence Unchecked

Women's eNews -- 02.12.2006

A Night in the Life/Hard Times

West Side Spirit -- 16.11.2006

Three-Year Protest Against Publishing Arrestee Names Continues

Pittsburgh City Paper -- 09.11.2006

Underground Sex Scene in NY boosted by Internet

WCBS -- 04.11.2006

Underground Sex Ring in NYC Boosted By Internet

WCBS -- 03.11.2006

Council would criminalize human trafficking

Queens Courier -- 12.10.2006

Old profession, new tricks.

Time Out New York -- 05.10.2006

Is US AIDS Policy Undermining the HIV Response?

Time To Deliver -- 13.08.2006

Women Aloud (Los Angeles radio show)

28.07.2006

Authorities focus on sex trafficking

Newsday -- 24.04.2006

The Electronic Pillory

Chicago Reader -- 07.04.2006

An interview with Juhu Thukral

Word Riot -- 01.01.2006

2005

Authorities Target Customers to Curb Prostitution

NPR - Talk of the Nation -- 21.12.2005

In a Shift, Anti-Prostitution Effort Targets Pimps and Johns

Washington Post -- 15.12.2005

Group Has Plan to Help Victims of Trafficking

New York Metro -- 01.12.2005

Kidnapping suspects arraigned in Port Chester

The Journal News -- 27.09.2005

Oversexed: Anti-Trafficking Efforts Too Often Neglect Other Forms of Forced Labor

The Nation -- 29.08.2005

Cities turn to humiliation to fight prostitution

Christian Science Monitor -- 21.07.2005

She's the oldest suspect in the oldest profession

New Jersey Star-Ledger -- 05.06.2005

School for Johns: Arrested for soliciting sex, men wind up in a Brooklyn classroom

Village Voice -- 10.05.2005

Infoshop.org -- 09.05.2005

Cityscape

(Topic: Behind Closed Doors)
WFUV -- 16.04.2005

Evening News

(Topic: Behind Closed Doors)
WBAI -- 31.03.2005

Perils of city sex trade cited

Newsday -- 30.03.2005

Morning Edition

(Topic: Behind Closed Doors)
WNYC -- 30.03.2005

New Study Shows Sex Work Dangerous

South Florida Sun-Sentinel -- 30.03.2005

Violence, isolation in lives of indoor sex workers

Associated Press -- 30.03.2005

Sex Workers Scraping By

UPI -- 30.03.2005

UN Debate on Trafficking Continues

DC Indymedia -- 08.03.2005

Fending for Themselves

Chronicle of Philanthropy -- 03.03.2005

BBC News

(Topic: $pread magazine and the sex workers
BBC -- 31.01.2005

2004

Long Silent, Oldest Profession Gets Vocal and Organized

The New York Times -- 18.12.2004

Free Speech Radio News

(Topic: Republican Convention and sex workers)
Free Speech Radio News -- 03.09.2004

Does GOP = sex? Not to those in the business

NY Newsday -- 24.08.2004

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