What’s your reaction when you hear a child has been abused? Shock? Anger? Disgust? All of these are common (and reasonable) responses. For most people, however, those...
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Our outgoing ED in conversation with John Chen
Jeremy Malcolm is Prostasia Foundation's outgoing founding Executive Director. John Chen spoke with Jeremy for his podcast series OUTED, and has kindly...
Black women in pornography: an interview with Mireille Miller-Young
“I still remember the exhilaration I felt when I saw my first pornographic image,” Mireille Miller-Young writes in her 2014 study A Taste for Brown Sugar: Black...
From the Newsletter: Saving consensual adult content
Editor’s Note: Prostasia is reprinting useful material from our newsletter for blog readers. This essay first ran in May 2021. To keep up to date on everything...
Sex workers are mothers, too
I am sharing a glass of wine with my child’s best friend’s mother while our children play princesses.
“So how...
Child trafficking narratives are misleading
When most people hear “human trafficking,” they think of kidnapped young cis, mostly white girls sold into enforced sexual slavery by criminal gangs composed mostly of...
The war on porn does not help children
The most potent weapon that sex work prohibitionists wield in their war on porn is the false narrative that pornography cannot be separated from child sexual abuse. But in...
Review: The War on Whores
Prostitution, the oldest profession, whoring, sex work, whatever you call it, it’s a cold, hard, delightful fact of reality. The War on Whores asks the...
The War on Whores
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FOSTA: you’re hurting the people you want to help
On paper, FOSTA was supposed to be about protecting people like me. During 2017, when the proposed law was still called SESTA (Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act), I was 17...