tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-325379494182192143.comments2023-04-05T16:20:25.303-07:00CAASECAASEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07067074693739170222noreply@blogger.comBlogger58125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-325379494182192143.post-57635710572726230002014-05-19T02:22:32.742-07:002014-05-19T02:22:32.742-07:00Truly professional, Exactly what i was looking for...Truly professional, Exactly what i was looking for. Will bookmark this blog for future posts . Cheers:) Source: <a rel="nofollow">J&B Signs<br /></a><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07506131094193865445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-325379494182192143.post-27897612944581340582013-07-30T12:51:56.468-07:002013-07-30T12:51:56.468-07:00Language matters!! Since the FBI sting was report...Language matters!! Since the FBI sting was reported, I have seen articles on CNN and other networks refer to the victims as "child prostitutes", and one news source posted a picture of two young girls handcuffed during the sting. These reporters need to get a clue!! Although we are grateful for the rescues, we have a long way to go.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08830893303150957714noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-325379494182192143.post-18034608690940081232013-05-16T06:53:25.392-07:002013-05-16T06:53:25.392-07:00In places where prostitution is legalized, exploit...In places where prostitution is legalized, exploitation of people in the sex trade continues. It increases demand and gives traffickers an incentive to force more people into prostitution in that area. You can learn more here: http://g.virbcdn.com/_f/files/e1/FileItem-150147-AM_Legalization.pdfCAASE Staffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00312234291225860369noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-325379494182192143.post-33602513763052455732013-05-15T20:42:31.720-07:002013-05-15T20:42:31.720-07:00Not really sure why prostitution is illegal. It sh...Not really sure why prostitution is illegal. It should just be regulated, like any other type of business.2NakedFeethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04535019421207222949noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-325379494182192143.post-63033247946482477222013-02-15T11:49:53.014-08:002013-02-15T11:49:53.014-08:00it makes me sick that marketers would even think t...it makes me sick that marketers would even think this would be permissible. . Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-325379494182192143.post-42960163646018490622012-09-26T12:12:55.044-07:002012-09-26T12:12:55.044-07:00I love CAASE! Awesome response Kristin! People nee...I love CAASE! Awesome response Kristin! People need to get their facts straight.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04946782622406231065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-325379494182192143.post-41841566781951051152012-09-25T15:40:44.609-07:002012-09-25T15:40:44.609-07:00Thanks for all the great work you do! I wrote abou...Thanks for all the great work you do! I wrote about this today too: http://cantleaveunsaid.wordpress.com/2012/09/25/trafficking-jam/<br /><br />I would however be interested to hear your response to the critique that we too often conflate all prostitution with trafficking...a convo for another day, perhaps. -Dave BAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-325379494182192143.post-75535748918965171252012-07-27T07:37:15.104-07:002012-07-27T07:37:15.104-07:00Hi Andrea,
No, we do not have any more details ab...Hi Andrea,<br /><br />No, we do not have any more details about this case. I only know what the reporter shared. So sorry for your loss.<br /><br />KristinCAASE Staffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00312234291225860369noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-325379494182192143.post-91779724158578866582012-07-26T19:09:07.491-07:002012-07-26T19:09:07.491-07:00Do you have the name of the person who pushed Cynt...Do you have the name of the person who pushed Cynthia out of the window? I read stories that state he jumped out of the window after her and he was held in the hospital, it doesn't state a name. Cynthia was a friend of mine and I want to make sure justice is served on her behalf.The Bloggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18210167799741029659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-325379494182192143.post-76726182850191787362012-05-01T22:46:59.109-07:002012-05-01T22:46:59.109-07:00This is an embarrassment to an industry, which sho...This is an embarrassment to an industry, which should pride it’s self on televising material that is more enlightening, inspiring and thought provoking. If you could reach hundred of thousands of people what story would you tell? How would you do a due diligence to your fellow human being? Sadly this industry is blinded by the false perception that sex sells. Indeed it does, but our society will not embrace flat-out immorality. It needs to be wooed, seduced. It must be real, feel real. I believe telling the real story of sex workers will probably lend greater ratings as well as educated people of the dangers. Cut out the lies the fairy tales, the veil of glamor. This is disgusting it’s like watching someone do drugs everyday and come home to friends and family as if all is well. The writer’s suck they give no complexity to the characters and as some have already mentioned it’s really just a big joke, and the punch line is the young girls/women who watch this will believe that this is how it really is. That sleeping with countless men for money will leave you healthy, beautiful, admired and loved by your friends and family. Let’s all laugh, how hilarious.Moxiemoveshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14774721888961097006noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-325379494182192143.post-1801236246089993782012-04-14T16:41:11.084-07:002012-04-14T16:41:11.084-07:00Great feature today about sex trafficking laws on ...Great feature today about sex trafficking laws on Melissa Harris Perry's morning show with Mira Sorvino. Find it at msnbc.comCeceliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04834758812542181156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-325379494182192143.post-64194170781253481812012-01-04T22:21:09.140-08:002012-01-04T22:21:09.140-08:00Human trafficking is the serious crime against hum...Human trafficking is the serious crime against humanity. Save our girls,women and innocent kids from becoming a victim of it. Visit us at<a href="http://www.mannafreedom.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.mannafreedom.com</a> our mission is to find solutions to stop human trafficking and raise awareness among people.mannafreedom11https://www.blogger.com/profile/10891395797508741424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-325379494182192143.post-44461947252247301102011-06-01T12:56:02.801-07:002011-06-01T12:56:02.801-07:00It's not just the NYTimes, the media or even m...It's not just the NYTimes, the media or even men, but our society as a whole that must shift how it views prostitutes. When sex workers (prostitutes, dancers, escorts, etc.) are valued as human beings, and brought into the conversation and decision making process to work on solutions, that will be the first step towards change.<br /><br />Here is another human rights abuse example due to illegal prostitution and zoning laws:<br />City attorney's anti-prostitution plan targets Seattle Center area | KOMO News | http://ff.im/EGRewAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-325379494182192143.post-74947935988817976022011-03-04T11:32:19.623-08:002011-03-04T11:32:19.623-08:00Definitely hit this one out of the ballpark. GO Kr...Definitely hit this one out of the ballpark. GO Kristin GO! Thank you for telling it like it is. (:Genevievehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17743318827854973189noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-325379494182192143.post-89626196743628476792011-03-04T06:24:28.584-08:002011-03-04T06:24:28.584-08:00Very interesting post to add to the conversation a...Very interesting post to add to the conversation about this incident at Northwestern U.Rebecca D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/01792102579862462833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-325379494182192143.post-89918971091513034392011-02-09T17:44:38.754-08:002011-02-09T17:44:38.754-08:00Hello everyone. It is clear that, within this conv...Hello everyone. It is clear that, within this conversation, there are people who are beginning with fundamental differences of belief about the realities of prostitution.<br />Thanks to those of you who have respectfully weighed in about this issue without personally attacking anyone else. I have removed one post that does attack another person, and I am closing comments on this post because I feel both sides have been heard. <br /><br />I use the word "most" within my original post because the respected researchers who we work with hear, time and time again, about the violence and exploitation experienced by women in prostitution. (The research from Jody Raphael can be found on CAASE's website http://www.caase.org/resources_research.aspx)<br /><br />On a personal level, I work with survivors of prostitution here in Chicago who motivate me to do this work. They are powerful, intelligent women who escaped the trade and are now sharing their stories publicly. They have been beaten, raped, drugged, taken across state lines, incarcerated. Now, they are fighting to raise awareness about the realities of prostitution to protect the women who struggled alongside them to survive. CAASE's work honors the experiences of those women, while recognizing that there are a spectrum of experiences among prostituted people. <br /><br />CAASE strives to develop policies that will protect the most vulnerable women in the sex trade. I believe we all share the same goal to protect vulnerable people from harm and to seek out the truth that will protect them. To quote Megan (above): <br /><br />"it is a disservice to people everywhere, especially women, to invalidate their experiences by negating what they have told you is *their* truth."CAASE Staffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00312234291225860369noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-325379494182192143.post-30383705933032097432011-02-09T17:16:14.460-08:002011-02-09T17:16:14.460-08:00A sex worker as me to post this:
"There are...A sex worker as me to post this:<br /> <br />"There are multiple realities in prostitution. For some people, it is a viable, respectable income. For some people, it is abusive and degrading. For some people, it is neither empowering now degrading, but just a way to make a living. <br /> <br />Speaking of trafficking, perhaps the most common form of trafficking is the legal trafficking of sex workers into jail cages. Just like traffickers use deception and hold innocent people captive against their wills, that's exactly what the vice cops who deceive sex workers into thinking they clients as well as all those who persecute sex workers do...deceiving and traumatizing innocent people, and holding them captive against their will. I consider prostitutes to be innocent people, who are being criminalized simply for exchanging sex for payment. <br /> <br />It disgusts me how some of the same individuals and groups who talk about how sex workers are such victims are also advocating to keep laws and policies that are resulting in sex workers being criminalized... despite their claims that they don't think sex workers should be arrested. This is a clear case of actions speaking louder than words. Arresting sex workers for prostitution is a form of abuse, in and of itself. <br /> <br />In case anybody is wondering, I am a sex worker, with experience working as an exotic dancer, webcam entertainer, and a legal prostitute in the Nevada brothel system. Also, I haven't had entirely wonderful experiences in sex work and a bad experience I had while dancing led me to sex worker advocacy. At first I was just looking for a support network, and then I became involved in more large scale social and political advocacy.<br /> <br />Despite the bad experience that led me to advocacy, I'm not going to pathologize the whole sex industry because I've also had positive experiences and seen multiple realities. Patologizing the whole industry does nothing to make things better. Also, I view exotic dance as a beautiful art form rather than a social ill, and have taken on pole dancing in my personal life as a hobby and a great form of exercise!"SWOP Colorado, LLChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06046729242598897316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-325379494182192143.post-6479324921706044262011-02-09T14:09:05.069-08:002011-02-09T14:09:05.069-08:00Kristen, you name Jody Raphael's research on p...Kristen, you name Jody Raphael's research on prostitution in Chicago. I looked up her research and this statement gives me pause as far as credibility: <br />"However, the research project itself was designed and implemented within the framework of prostitution as a form of violence and exploitation. For example, the surveyors <br />were survivors of prostitution who did not see their own experiences as “work” or a choice <br />they had made."<br />http://www.impactresearch.org/documents/sistersspeakout.pdf, p 8<br /><br />This is a serious issue with the research being cited to back up policy that harms people, such as "end demand". (Please see this fact sheet: http://www.desireealliance.org/resources/enddemand.htm)<br />Too much of the "research" used for this is conducted on the most desperate cases (sample pool taken from jails, battered women's shelters, drug rehab units, etc.), or research coming from an initial bias as mentioned above. This serves no purpose but to buttress an erroneous assumption about all sex workers, used to promote policies that harm us, inhibit our agency, and disintegrate our freedoms. <br /><br />Please consider how what you do affects real people like myself and my fellow sex workers. These policies (based on such dubious research) that further criminalize us are ruining lives. The laws against prostitution, meanwhile, have never actually helped one person. The criminal justice system is not the right choice for helping people in such bad situations.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-325379494182192143.post-77627083772071746582011-02-09T11:36:39.106-08:002011-02-09T11:36:39.106-08:00All:
Thank you for your thoughtful posts and the ...All:<br /><br />Thank you for your thoughtful posts and the time that you have taken to respond to this so our voices are heard.<br /><br />Amanda...there are many women who purchase sex not just men. Please do not label men who purchase sex as predatorial in their need for sexual/physical release. We can as a community make this exchange between consenting adults better. Here's how:<br /><br />LEGALIZATION!! You will never see end demand. This has been around since reported in the Bible and will continue to be. The only reason it is illegal is because laws were passed to make it so.<br /><br />Harm reduction for both worker and purchaser.<br /><br />Education: similar to the conversation we are having here :) We need to get to know each other and not be on only our respective sides. <br /><br />Coming to agreement that we ARE on each others side.<br /><br />Supporting all workers as equal members of society.<br /><br />Breaking down the walls of discrimination and ostrazation.<br /><br />Have a great day and please! Support your local sex worker!<br /><br />Billie Jackson, M.A.<br />SWOP Colorado, LLCSWOP Colorado, LLChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06046729242598897316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-325379494182192143.post-63253635056450075532011-02-09T10:00:54.875-08:002011-02-09T10:00:54.875-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00789903194884285048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-325379494182192143.post-43519198379320485982011-02-09T09:19:09.102-08:002011-02-09T09:19:09.102-08:00Venkatesh misses the point that when treated as a ...Venkatesh misses the point that when treated as a transaction, sex and/or sexual acts dehumanize and dominate the individual(s) being purchased. Asking if an individual can choose to prostitute is like asking if an individual would choose to be dehumanized and objectified. Prostitutes are not in the sex trade because they want to provide the service to men but because men want to buy them for the sexual service. This cost, at the price of exploitation, is a reconstruction of power and domination by the men who are buying, the johns.Amandahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14020197604331168412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-325379494182192143.post-85785648032740512692011-02-09T08:59:19.705-08:002011-02-09T08:59:19.705-08:00I am confused why CAASE is so angry with Venkatesh...I am confused why CAASE is so angry with Venkatesh's article. It is after all, a study that was conducted and the facts gathered, ridiculous as they may be.<br /><br />There is nothing in the artcle suggesting the author downplays the violence against people who work in street-based economies. Kristen, can you clarify "most" and "some" in your response? These two words exemplify the crux of your argument; there needs to be statistics to back up "most" & "some". <br /><br />The word "trafficked" is based loosely on your opinion only. Very few trafficking cases are legitimate and/or prosecuted. The fact that African American males are statistically the highest traffickers in the US (BOJ Trafficking statistics), only solidifies that policing and racial profiling is still flourishing in our criminal justice system. <br /><br />I appreciate your need to sound off about a subject that obviously is close to your heart, but I need facts not emotions. A misinformed public is dangerous. Street-based economies do in fact present greater risks of violence, but please don't render those who work in economies outside of society's norms as harmless or helpless victims. <br /><br />Sex workers are organizing, mobilizing, informing, changing legislation, etc. We are not all trafficked, pimped, or constantly in fear of our lives, even those who work at the street-level. <br /><br />Sex workers are against violence and trafficking as much as those who work to prevent it. I would be welcome and open to speak with any agency or organization that works with trafficking, violence, and sex work forums. Only through conversation can we begin to understand one another.<br /><br />Sincerely,<br /><br />Cristine Sardina BWS, MSJ<br />Desiree Alliance Co-Director<br />director@desireealliance.orgDesiree Alliancehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06854669922456332651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-325379494182192143.post-27905903047311330492011-02-09T08:28:05.942-08:002011-02-09T08:28:05.942-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Desiree Alliancehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06854669922456332651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-325379494182192143.post-74204751880116680602011-02-09T08:22:02.312-08:002011-02-09T08:22:02.312-08:00HUH? I think you are trying to make a point I jus...HUH? I think you are trying to make a point I just don't get what it is.<br />Thanks,<br /><br />Billie Jackson, M.A.<br />SWOP ColoradoSWOP Colorado, LLChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06046729242598897316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-325379494182192143.post-42229317605960607582011-02-09T08:12:51.110-08:002011-02-09T08:12:51.110-08:00well,i just don´t know how we women can reach equa...well,i just don´t know how we women can reach equality if prostitution defense are considered "opinion".I have never seen men defending prostitution for themselves,they are always in the comusmer position and defend it for them,,why we women do our best to convince ourselves that we are commodities? Are that "sex worker" a real sex worker? Sorry,i don´t belive that any women on Earth after being submited to prostuitution has no damage.Besides,only because we find many druged people who loves to get druged nobody can denay that drugs are dangerous,why in case of prostitution that´s valid?<br />If we women like to be sex workers why society should give us equal job opportunities,equal payment if we can make high amounts of money just "having fun"? How can we women stopp violence againsd us if many women defend the men´s right of abusing us like toys?<br />I am tired and sick to see so many irresponsable bullshit glamourized like "choice",we women must choose to be human beings.Tired and sick of this "American way of life" that shows women´s commodification as something positive and normal!If we wnat to erradicate this,we must stopp to consider such suspicious arguments as "opinion".Imagine if i get strat with "racist opinions",that would be a crime even thought i claimed to be a person of color,why such disgusting stuff i read here isn´t? So,what´s next? to rape is a men´s right as well? to be a serial killer is "freedom of speech"?<br />wake up!IGN-UP! https://www.blogger.com/profile/06734317362186478574noreply@blogger.com