by Alison Bass | May 7, 2015 | prostitution, public health, sex trafficking, sex work
Even some of the most respected news outlets in the United States are getting it wrong. In a recent Talk of the Town in The New Yorker, Philip Gourevitch referred to the men who are smuggling migrants from Africa to Europe as traffickers instead of what they really...
by Alison Bass | Nov 8, 2014 | prostitution, public health, sex trafficking, sex work, Uncategorized
Nick Kristof is at it again. On Sunday, the New York Times columnist wrote yet another column about sex trafficking that was filled with inaccuracies and misleading statements. He was writing about a new lawsuit filed by two young women who say they were trafficked as...
by Alison Bass | Oct 6, 2014 | prostitution, sex trafficking, sex work, Uncategorized
For the past four years, I have been working on a new book that is a departure from my previous book, Side Effects. Tentatively titled Getting Screwed: Sex Work and the Law, the new book weaves the true stories of sex workers (past and present) together with the...
