Alison Bass is the author of the forthcoming book, Getting Screwed: Sex Workers and the Law. She is also the author of Side Effects: A Prosecutor, a Whistleblower and a Bestselling Antidepressant on Trial, which won the NASW Science in Society Award. A long-time medical writer for The Boston Globe, she now teaches journalism at West Virginia University.
Now that Amnesty International seems to be getting behind the movement to decriminalize sex work, the issue is finally getting some attention in the mainstream press.
Sex workers like to work together because it's safer for them.
Visa and Mastercard's recent decision to stop processing transactions on Backpage will only make it difficult for sex workers to screen customers and practice safe sex.
The Swedish model of criminalizing buyers, newly adopted by northern Ireland, actually makes prostitution more dangerous for sex workers and the general public.
Why shutting websites like myRedbook and backpage, and prosecuting their operators, does nothing to help runaway teens who are coerced into selling sex
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