prostitution

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SarahAnn Harris Hamilton, program coordinator with the Seattle-based nonprofit Organization for Prostitution Survivors, thinks that for stings to truly benefit trafficking victims, there needs to be more support for survivors.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 8, 2024

Brenda Simpson, from the End Trafficking and Prostitution Political Action Committee, says it is time to stop looking the other way.

From BBC • Sep. 16, 2018

Prostitution researcher Karin Werkman thinks the whole project is questionable.

From The Guardian • May 16, 2017

One of these questioners is Chester Brown, a veteran cartoonist who has used scholarly research to come up with “Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus: Prostitution and religious obedience in the Bible.”

From Salon • Apr. 11, 2016

Prostitution was practically unknown in Burmah, and regarded as shameful before the coming of the English and the example of the modern Hindus.

From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society by Ellis, Havelock