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• All-Asian brothels with no trafficking, Queensland

  18 November 2009 in sex work, trafficking

  Not much comment needed. An impromptu government inspection in Queensland, Australia, found no problems with brothels employing sex workers of a single ethnicity/regional group or type: exactly what people are most afraid will attract traffickers and cause most exploitation of prostitutes.
  Asian brothels cleared of sex trafficking
  Christine Kellett, 16 November 2009
  Queensland’s sex industry regulator says it has [...]

• Sexo y marginalidad: Sex at the Margins translated to Spanish

  16 November 2009 in migration, sex work, trafficking

  Sexo y marginalidad: Emigración, mercado de trabajo e industria de rescate es la traducción (no mía) al castellano de Sex at the Margins: Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry. 
  Sexo y marginalidad demuestra con elegancia que lo que les sucede a las inmigrantes trabajadoras pobres del Sur Global cuando abandonan su hogar para trabajar en la industria [...]

• Violence Against Women: Too much of a bad thing

  11 November 2009 in sex work

  This is one of the images some feminists objected to in an H&M advertising campaign a year ago. The object to be sold is underwear, so there’s no way to advertise it without showing flesh. I’m thinking about this in relation to the idea of Gender Equality, taking the case of Sweden, where H&M has [...]

• Sex workers choose Pune over Mumbai’s rising rental prices

  9 November 2009 in migration, sex work

  This story shows how sex worker migration can be a result of rising property prices in major urban centres - not trafficking. Women in Mumbai are moving to Pune, about 100 km away, because rents are cheaper. The ‘better police cooperation’ referred to in Pune seems to mean less police interference and harassment. Comments toward the end [...]

• Policing sex trafficking in Rio, with farcical elements

  4 November 2009 in sex work, trafficking

  Sometimes the Rescue Industry reverts to farce. Take the recent history of Brazil with its efforts to appear ‘modern’ and world-powerful through militaristic social-control operations. Before I even got to the part of this article that mentions carnaval, I had thought ‘circus’ to describe what I was reading. These are excerpts from Operation Princess in Rio [...]