### ![](media/image1.jpeg){width="1.55in" height="0.6055555555555555in"}

### 

### 

### "Porn Powerhouse" & Sex Toy Store owner sues U.S. Government: 

### Says his group shouldn't have to oppose prostitution & 

### sex trafficking to get U.S. funds 

**[The Law]{.underline}:** Under U.S. law, funds authorized by the
United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act
of 2003 (Public Law 108-25), must not be used "to promote or advocate
the legalization or practice of prostitution or sex trafficking" and
organizations must have a policy "explicitly opposing prostitution and
sex trafficking."

**[The Legislative History:]{.underline}** The
prostitution/sex-trafficking provision passed the House by a vote of
375-41 on May 1, 2003 (H.R. 1298), and passed the Senate by voice vote
on May 16, 2003, and was signed into law by President George W. Bush on
May 27, 2003. On July 8, 2004, the House reaffirmed the provision by a
vote of 306-113. Rep. Chris Smith, the author of the provision said,
"The issue that is before us today is whether or not we will provide
money to organizations that seek the legalization of prostitution and
also enable the traffickers ... to enslave these women."

**[DKT International Sues U.S. Government:]{.underline}** On August 11,
2005, DKT International filed a lawsuit in the D.C. District Court
against USAID and its director Andrew Natsios, challenging the federal
law and implementing regulations as an unconstitutional infringement of
speech. DKT applied for a \$60,000 subgrant from Family Health
International (FHI) to market condom lubricants in Vietnam. The grant
was rescinded when DKT refused to certify its opposition to prostitution
and sex trafficking. DKT argues it has a First Amendment right not to
have a policy on prostitution.

DKT International is a non-profit organization based in Washington,
D.C., which receives about 16% (approximately \$8 million) of its \$50
million budget from the U.S. Government. DKT's president, Philip D.
Harvey, issued a statement that charges the U.S. policy against
prostitution and sex-trafficking "does no good, and is clearly doing
considerable harm."[^1]

**[DKT's Founder and President Owns "Porn Powerhouse" & Sex Toy
Store]{.underline}:** DKT's founder and president Philip Harvey is also
the owner of Adam & Eve, a North Carolina--based company that sells sex
toys, adult videos, and contraceptives through the mail and over the
web. According to *Mother Jones* magazine, "Adam & Eve, which seven
years ago began producing its own X-rated movies, is a peculiar porn
powerhouse."[^2]

**[DKT's Vietnam Operation:]{.underline}** According to its court
filing, since 1993, DKT International has worked in Vietnam,
"distributing over four hundred million condoms throughout Vietnam's
sixty-four provinces." According to an article featuring him, "In
Vietnam, Harvey visited a brothel in the jungle outside Hanoi. He sat by
the outdoor bar with the madam and her girls, nursing an ice-cold
Heineken and talking aids and condoms. 'The one thing that's consistent
about brothel visits is how nice everyone is,' he says, 'how interested
they are in telling you what their problems are and how the condoms
could be better \-- and in some cases how hard it is to get customers
who've had too much to drink to use them in the first place.'"[^3]

[^1]: <http://www.populationaction.org/news/views/relatedDocs/DKTStatement.pdf>

[^2]: <http://www.reason.com/0112/cr.ng.pornocopia.shtml>

    <http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/notebook/2002/11/ma_158_01.html>;
    [www.adameve.com](http://www.adameve.com/)

[^3]: [Ibid](http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/notebook/2002/11/ma_158_01.html)