by Alison Bass | May 2, 2016 | Uncategorized
There seems to be an international push these days toward making the purchase of sex (but not its sale) illegal. In the 16 years since Sweden criminalized buyers of commercial sex, Norway, Denmark, Canada and most recently, northern Ireland have followed suit. And now...
by Alison Bass | Apr 13, 2016 | antidepressants, antipsychotic drugs, clinical trials, conflicts of interest, drug marketing, FDA, pharmaceutical industry, prostitution, sex work
After my first nonfiction book, Side Effects: A Prosecutor, a Whistleblower and a Bestselling Antidepressant on Trial, was published, a number of readers told me that the book would make a great movie. (It’s written as a narrative and tells the true story of two...
by Alison Bass | Jan 27, 2016 | human trafficking, law enforcement, prostitution, public health, sex trafficking, sex work, Uncategorized
In early January, law enforcement in the Seattle area shut down a popular website used by sex workers to advertise their services and by customers to review sex workers. Police also raided a number of luxury apartments in Bellevue where women were allegedly selling...
by Alison Bass | Jan 7, 2016 | Crime, law enforcement, prostitution, public health, sex work
One of the questions I am often asked by journalists who interview me about my book, Getting Screwed: Sex Workers and the Law is: Do you think society’s attitudes toward prostitution will ever evolve to the point where lawmakers might actually introduce legislation...
by Alison Bass | Dec 15, 2015 | law enforcement, prostitution, public health, sex work, underage prostitution
In a rare case of justice being served, a police officer was convicted last week of multiple counts of rape and sexual assault on black women who lived in a low-income neighborhood of Oklahoma City. Daniel Holtzclaw, a 29-year-old police officer of white and Japanese...
