Prostitution & Sex Trafficking

"The disturbing tendency to treat prostitution as a business or industry not only contributes to the trade in human beings, but is itself evidence of a growing tendency to detach freedom from the moral law and to reduce the rich mystery of human sexuality to a mere commodity."
Letter of John Paul II to Archbishop Jean-Louis Tauran
on the occasion of the International Conference
"Twenty-first Century Slavery - The Human Rights Dimension to Trafficking in Human Beings"

 

Articles and Research

Faces of Prostitution

International Documents

How to Talk about Prostitution and Sex Trafficking

State Prostitution Laws

U.S. Federal Prostitution Laws

Websites

 

Articles and Research

10 Reasons Not to Legalize

Janice G. Raymond, author. Co-Executive Director

Coalition Against Trafficking in Women - International

Professor, University of Massachusetts
P.O. Box 9338

N. Amherst, MA 01059 USA

Fax: 413.367.9262

(Published in simultaneously in hard copy in Journal of Trauma Practice, 2, 2003: pp. 315-332; and in Prostitution, Trafficking and Traumatic Stress. Melissa Farley (Ed.). Binghamton: Haworth Press, 2003.)

Website: http://www.catwinternational.org

Available online at: http://action.web.ca/home/catw/readingroom.shtml?x=32972l

Best Practices to Address the Demand Side of Sex Trafficking

Donna M. Hughes

Professor & Eleanor M. and Oscar M. Carlson Endowed Chair

Women's Studies Program

University of Rhode Island

Report

"The Links between Prostitution and Sex Trafficking: A Briefing Handbook"

Monica O'Conner and Grainne Healy, authors.  Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW) and the European Women's Lobby (EWL).

Website: http://www.catwinternational.org/index.php

Handbook

Permission-Giving Beliefs of Men who Sexually Exploit Prostitutes

Mary Anne Layden, Ph.D

Department of Psychiatry

Center for Cognitive Therapy

University of Pennsylvania Health Systems

Chart

The Prostituted Women's and Girls' "Job Description"

Copyright © WHISPER. All Rights Reserved

Available online at: http://www.prostitutionresearch.com/prosAD.html

Sex:  From Intimacy to "Sexual Labor" or Is It a Human Right to Prostitute?

Coalition Against Trafficking in Women - Asia Pacific

Article

Sexually Oriented Business: An Insider's View

Testimony of David Sherman: Former manager of various strip clubs

Testimony before Michigan House Committee Ethics and Constitutional Law

January 12, 2000

Testimony

Stopping the Traffic in Women: Power, Agency and Abolition in Feminist Debates over Sex-Trafficking

Kathy Miriam, author

Article

Faces of Prostitution

Faces of Prostitution: Portraits of Exploitation

Introduction Document

Photos

International Documents

1949 UN Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others

Approved by the UN General Assembly

Available online: http://untreaty.un.org/English/TreatyEvent2001/pdf/19e.pdf

International Agreement for the Suppression of the "White Slave Traffic"
Available online: http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/whiteslavetraffic1904.html

How to Talk about Prostitution and Sex Trafficking

How do we talk about this?

Caring Magazine

The Salvation Army Western Territory

Article

State Prostitution Laws

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U.S. Federal Prostitution Laws

The Mann Act

Act

Websites

Coalition Against Trafficking in Women

PO Box 9338, N. Amherst MA 01059. 

Fax:  413.367.9262.  Website:  www.catwinternational.org

Dr. Donna Hughes, Professor of Women's Studies

Eleanor M. and Oscar M. Carlson Endowed Chair

University of Rhode Island

316 Eleanor Roosevelt Hall

Telephone:  401.874.2757.  Fax:  401.874.4527.

Website:  www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/hughes/hughes.htm

Research Prostitution and Education

Melissa Farley

E-mail:  contact1@prostitutionresearch.com

Website:  www.prostitutionresearch.com