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...
by Alison Bass | Nov 18, 2015 | human trafficking, prostitution, public health, sex work, Uncategorized
My book, Getting Screwed: Sex Workers and the Law, seems to be generating interest among the artsy, progressive crowd, judging by the attendance at recent talks I’ve given and the nice review of the book on WBUR radio’s ARTery site. On Nov. 3, nearly 100...
by Alison Bass | Oct 25, 2015 | human trafficking, media coverage, prostitution, public health, sex trafficking, sex work, Uncategorized, underage prostitution
When it comes to the coverage of sex work or trafficking, the mainstream media often seems to forget a basic journalistic principle — the need to get their facts straight. Here are two recent examples from supposedly top-notch purveyors of journalism. This week,...
by Alison Bass | Oct 20, 2015 | prostitution, public health, sex trafficking, sex work, trafficking, Uncategorized
My book tour seems to be off to a good start. Getting Screwed: Sex Workers and the Law sold out on Amazon three days after its official release Oct. 6 and only today has the online retailer finally caught up with the demand. On Oct. 12, about 50 people showed up at...
by Alison Bass | Sep 14, 2015 | prostitution, public health, sex work, Uncategorized
I read Mary Mitchell’s column in the Chicago Sun Times this weekend with mounting disbelief and disgust. It’s hard to believe that in 2015 a news columnist, an African-American woman no less, was arguing that a sex worker raped at gunpoint by a client was...
by Alison Bass | Aug 26, 2015 | prostitution, public health, sex trafficking, sex work, trafficking, Uncategorized, underage prostitution
This week, federal and state law enforcement officials shut down the well-known website, Rentboy.com, which provided a venue for thousands of gay escorts to post ads and screen potential clients. In a raid on the site’s headquarters in New York City, the officers...
