I will be blogging about things related to this topic throughout the day, but I encourage you to check out Bound, Not Gagged, SWOP East and Sex In the Public Square to read what various sex workers and their allies are talking about and related news...
Also, I am reposting this list, as it is a good one for anyone who has an interest in Sex Workers Rights, Outreach, and Education on the matter to have handy:
sex worker outreach programs-
ISWFACE / Los Angeles8801 Cedros Ave. # 7 Panorama City, California, 91402Telephone-Fax: (818) 892-2029
COYOTE:COYOTE/Seattle16625 Redmond Way, Box M237 Redmond, Washington 98052Telephone-Fax: 1-425-883-2973
COYOTE/San Francisco2269 Chestnut Street #452 San Francisco, CA 94123Telephone: 1-415-435-7950
COYOTE/Los Angeles 1626 N. Wilcox Avenue #580 Hollywood, CA 90028Telephone: 1-818-892-1859
Hooking is Real Employment (HIRE)847 Monroe Drive Atlanta, GA 30308Telephone: 1-404-876-1212
BAYSWAN (Bay Area Sex Workers Advocacy Network)
COP (Coalition on Prostitution)PO Box 210256 San Francisco, CA 94121 Telephone: 1-415-751-1659
Sex Workers Action Coalition (SWAC)Box 6724 Oakland, CA 94603Telephone: 1-415-435-7931
PONY (Prostitutes of New York)
CAL-PEP (California Prostitutes Education Project)PO Box 23855 Oakland, CA 94623-0055Telephone: 1-510- 874-7850 and 839-6775
North American Task Force on Prostitution (NTFP)2785 Broadway 4L New York, NY 10025-2834 USATelephone/Fax: 1-212-866-8854
JACGUAR (Johns and Call Girls United Against Repression)P.O. Box 021011 Brooklyn, NY 11202-1011
Sisters Offering SupportP.O. Box 75042 Honolulu, Hawaii 96836Telephone: (808) 942-5070 Contact(s): Kelly A. Hill
POCAAN (People of Color Against AIDS Network)1200 S. Jackson Street, Ste. 25 Seattle, WA 98144Telephone: (206) 322-7061 Fax: (206) 322-7204
The California Prostitutes' Education Project
The Threshold Project, Washington State
New York: Amethyst Women's Project, Inc.,Girls Education & Mentoring Services
Sex Workers Project-Urban Justice Center
On the Streets Mobile Unit
Washington DC: HIPS (Helping Individual Prostitutes Survive)
Philly: Project SAFE
I also offer this: Some interesting information on the Swedish Model:
"Police harassment of prostitutes has increased – they can be forced to appear in court to provide testimony against the client (they can refuse to witness, but they are still summoned and sometimes escorted to courtrooms), and whenever they are caught with a client, their belongings are searched and they may be frisked. Anything that police think they can use as evidence against clients (such as condoms) are confiscated. In those cases where a man was caught with a condom on his penis in the back of his car, police have used that fact to argue that he was breaking the law. This practice clearly has consequences for condom use among sexworkers. It provides both them and their clients with strong incentives to avoid using them. The law has been a catastrophe for non-Swedish sexworkers – if the prostitute found with a client is not a citizen or legal resident of Sweden, she is immediately deported; in fact government prosecutors complain that in a number of cases they were unable to gain convictions against clients because the prostitutes they were found with had been deported before they could even give a statement. This fact affects the willingness of non-residents to report on violence. "
It's always nice to see that the prostitutes in question don't rank nearly as high as the message about prostitution that supporters of the Swedish Model are trying to send.
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