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• Migrant sex workers, medieval Japanese

  11 March 2010 in migration, sex work

  A scholar of medieval Japan, Janet Goodwin, reveals how sexual mores changed from liberal and accepting to disapproving a thousand years ago. The above picture depicts sexual entertainers in a small boat - nomadic sex workers - soliciting passengers in a larger boat. Note how positive perceptions changed to negative, and how the disapproving attitude towards [...]

• Trafficking: Framing the questions, Providing the proofs

  10 March 2010 in migration, sex work, trafficking

  If you’re in New York, try to come to tonight’s event at 66th Street and York Avenue - a lot of fantastic people will be in attendance.
  I’m giving a talk at a good evening hour on 10 March, on the East Side in the 60s, and welcome anyone interested to come along. The lecture is [...]

• Kamathipura red lights give way to skyscrapers: Mumbai

  8 March 2010 in sex work

  Gentrification always tries to make street life more orderly, less messy, more suited to middle-class tastes. Recently I published stories about city ordinances in Spain and Italy that name specific activities to be banned in public places: bathing in fountains, eating sandwiches, selling sex. This story about Mumbai describes how a traditional red-light (and slum) [...]

• Sex worker union raises prices in Ghana

  4 March 2010 in sex work

  Again a different sort of tone from an African country. Here, the raising of prices by sex workers is reported as a conventional and rational action. Not much comment is needed from me; the news speaks for itself. Note: 1 GH=.52 Euros
  Prostitutes Increase Rates Per Sexual Round
  18 February 2010, Accra Times
  Commercial sex workers at Ashaiman, in the [...]

• Mayor asserts his personal morality is above the law: New South Wales

  1 March 2010 in sex work

  Large club, Spain

  How many laws would most mayors feel free to defy on the grounds that they personally don’t agree with them? What’s striking in this Australian story is the politician’s ease in announcing his defiance as a virtuous, moral stand. Apparently he does not fear any authority might insist that he respect the law. His [...]