Nassau County is the first county in NY state to disallow condoms as evidence in prostitution cases. The NY Times covered the continuing struggle to get the no-condoms-as-evidence bill passed in the state legislature since , quoting Sierra Baskin, co-director of the Sex Workers Project at the Urban Justice Center, extensively.
Similarly, the Australian media discovers camgirls. Alternative porn star Stoya gets a great profile in the Village Voice, in which she talks about her homeschooled childhood, loving New York, and speaking for herself in her Vice column and her tumblr rather than allowing journalists to distort her words. A Lowell, Massachusetts police officer has been sentenced to two years in jail for extortionβhe used his badge to coerce sex workers into having sex with him. How about a well deserved rape conviction instead?
The Scotland Herald warns that if the unofficial attitude of tolerance towards sex work in Scottish saunas were to be challenged, many sex workers would be forced into the street. A Baltimore cop and his 19 year old wife were arrested for advertising her services on an internet escort site. Make up your mind, Baltimore criminal justice systemβis it sex slavery or is it voluntary sex work?
If you juxtapose each of these photos against one of the sad feelings conveyed in the comments section, it transforms this banal project into a really biting survey of concern-trolling anti-sex work discourse. The children of four alleged victims of Robert Pickton, a Vancouver serial killer of street sex workers, have filed a civil suit in British Columbian Supreme Court against Pickton, his family members, the provincial government and the city of Vancouver.
The suit claims that police and the government failed to warn Downtown Eastside women that a serial killer was at large, and raises concerns about the way the cases were handled. A former New Zealand sex offender has been sent back to jail for watching cartoon pixie porn. Despite the objections of the porn industry and many porn performers themselves, legislation that would require condom use in all adult movie shoots passed a key committee in Sacramento recently.
