The New Zealand Parliament has taken the first step toward legalizing prostitution in New Zealand , voting overwhelmingly to send the Prostitution Reform Bill to a select committee. Ananova Delegates from eleven Asian countries took part in the first Asian sex workers conference in Bangkok last week. The representatives discussed strategies for improving the lives of prostitutes and other sex workers in Asia, addressing health and safety issues, economic difficulties, political rights and social stigmas. James East looks at Bangkok's conflicted attitudes toward the sex trade , brought to the fore by this week's international sex workers conference. In these two articles, J. Marlowe of SWAV articulated what's wrong with john schools and dissected the ideology behind the john school movement , which began in San Francisco in the mid 1990s.
Sex Workers Write About Their Clients , who offers tips and etiquette for prospective johns.
But I saw none of it. I really liked this article. Petkovich's tone is somewhat defensive at times, since he knows many readers, even radical sex-positive readers, will be predisposed to consider him naive at best, a total scumbag at worst. But his essay is also thoughtful and unapologeticly sensual, making the case for commercial sex based on kindness, camaraderie and respect regardless of locale. The Spectator Shelly Mars investigates the world of lesbian prostitution , a relatively tiny market compared to prostitution aimed at men and one where the ground rules aren't always so clear.