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• New Statesman: The Myth of Trafficking

  3 July 2009 in migration, sex work, trafficking

  For those who never saw this review of my book, a reprise, with the original picture. The use of ‘myth’ here is not my choice, by the way. That would imply that no abuses or problems exist in migration, which is a far cry from the truth.
  The New Statesman       27 March 2008
  The Myth of Trafficking 
  Brendan [...]

• Is Decriminalization of Prostitution Harm Reduction?

  1 July 2009 in sex work

  I am in Porto, Portugal’s second-largest city, to give a plenary talk at the opening of a conference on harm reduction called CLAT (Conferência Latina sobre Redução de Riscos in Portugese). I had rather sketchy notions of how harm reduction could be used as a framework for talking about sex work/prostitution, which is most often understood in [...]

• Marcha de trabajador@s sexuales en Perú: un bochinche/Sex workers march in Lima

  29 June 2009 in sex work

  Mira este video de una marcha en Lima llevada a cabo el 2 de junio, Día Internacional de los/as Trabajadores Sexuales. Here’s a great, colourful video of a pro-rights march held in Lima on 2 June on International Sex Workers Day.

  La marcha forma parta de un proyecto de CiudadaniaSx: activismo cultural y derechos humanos, que enfrenta [...]

• TIP: Trafficking in Persons, the No-Methodology Report

  26 June 2009 in trafficking

  What I hate most about the annual Trafficking in Persons Report (TIP) is the very idea: that one country should presume to judge all others vis-a-vis some topic and then publish a report card with simplistic, childish rankings (all the world fits into 4 classes). Then, not content with simply judging Rest-of-World, the USA threatens to [...]

• What Not to Wear if you want to be French, and other tales of sex and women

  24 June 2009 in migration

  On Monday Sarkozy threatened to make wearing a burka in public illegal in France. I wrote about this kind of thinking last year in The Guardian. This issue is related to migration, it is related to trafficking and it is related to commercial sex. Ideas about how the right kind of women should look predominate [...]