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Opinion | I’m 16. On Nov. 6 the Girls Cried, and the Boys Played Minecraft. (Gift Article)
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On the day after the election, it seemed boys and girls woke to a new reality.
Opinion | I’m 16. On Nov. 6 the Girls Cried, and the Boys Played Minecraft. (Gift Article)
www.nytimes.com
On the day after the election, it seemed boys and girls woke to a new reality.
10 Major Unresolved Issues Within the Anti-Pornography Struggle
A challenge to the feminist anti-pornography movement has been a lack of consensus about key issues and goals. The NOMAS National Task Group on Pornography & Prostitution has developed a list of ten such unresolved issues (see below). We seek to encourage more thinking and constructive discussion about them. 1. The anti-pornography movement was large and making […]
NOMAS supports Reauthorization of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, HR 3887, 2007
The U.S. law addressing the crime of Sex Trafficking, the Trafficking Victims Protection Act 0f 2000, is about to expire and must be reauthorized by Congress. On December 4, the House did something remarkable. It overwhelmingly passed HR 3887 which not only extends the TVPA, but greatly improves it. The trafficking issue now moves to […]
Online Guide for Helping Trafficked or Prostituted Girls
Click Here for an Online Guide for Mothers, Grandmothers, and Others for Helping a Girl Caught in Prostitution and Sex Trafficking
Survivors of Prostitution and Trafficking Manifesto
NOMAS supports the “Survivors of Prostitution and Trafficking Manifesto” from the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women Survivors of Prostitution and Trafficking Manifesto: “Who Represents Women in Prostitution?” Press Conference – European Parliament October 17, 2005 We, the survivors of prostitution and trafficking gathered at this press conference today, declare that prostitution is violence against women. […]
Does Consensual Prostitution Exist?
By Robert Brannon, PHD, Chair NOMAS Task Group on Pornography and Prostitution, Should there be any legal (or any feminist – political) objection to a mutually consensual agreement, between two adults, to exchange money for sex? Before answering, one must think a little more about the meaning of the word “consensual.“ If we say that a person (e.g. […]
Taxing Prostitution? Please Think Again… and a bit Deeper
Raising funds by taxing prostitution is surely among the most wrong-headed, misinformed – and in the deepest sense immoral – ideas being pushed in America today. Thus The New York Times’ unusually light-hearted and splashy, four-columns, two-photos story by Charlie LeDuff on 6/28/03, which naively glamorized and implicitly promoted prostitution will give more fuel to […]
The Fight Against Sex Trafficking: Still An Uphill Struggle 2012
At first glance, it would seem that the horrors of sex-trafficking have finally been clearly recognized in 2009; that change for the better is happening. Public opinion seems strongly against sex trafficking. The U.S. “Trafficking Victims Protection Act” (TVPA) has been extended for two more years. And New York State recently passed the strongest and […]
Stop Human Trafficking
Human Trafficking is 21st century slavery. There are more slaves today – 27 million – than ever in all 400 years of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade combined. Every year over 2 million women and children are sold into slavery around the world in what is considered a form of modern day slavery. Traffickers use force, […]