The Naked Anthropologist

Post Yearly Archive

2025

March 17th A decolonial walk: Bengali migrants in the East End

2024

September 24th Historical migrations of workers and layabouts
August 20th Gender, Sex and Class in East End History
June 2nd London’s Sex Industry and the Stage in the Long 18th Century
May 5th What’s unusual about this antislavery walk?
April 21st Which 14th-century working women did sex work?
February 20th History from Below in Camden Walks
January 3rd An Interest in the Backside of Things

2023

October 29th I’ve won a prize: Women’s History Network Independent Researcher Grant
August 30th How to buy tickets for Laura’s London History Walks with Gender, Sex and Class
August 20th Open for Business: London Walks with Gender, Sex and Class
August 7th Who wants to go to Essex? A walk in Rochford town and by the River Roach
August 2nd Scratching out a living: The Medieval Female Proletariat – A guided walk
July 3rd The Witches of Manningtree: A Walk on the River Stour

2021

February 1st Le sexe en tant que travail et le travail du sexe (Sex as work and sex work)

2020

December 24th Christmas in the Brothel
December 14th Snake Oil: A Memoir on the Rise of ‘Trafficking’
December 11th Sex workers working with police: Sue Davis, Vancouver BC
November 12th Sexworkers’ long history as political experts, English translation: Thierry Schaffauser
November 9th Sexworkers’ long history as political experts: Thierry Schaffauser
February 17th Naked Anthropologist News: Bloody Brexit, Feb 2020
January 12th Naked Anthropologist News for Radio Ava: Jan 2020

2019

December 23rd Christmas in the unexciting brothel
February 28th What is Decrim? The many places of prostitution in law
January 8th Sexbuyer laws: War on clients, says Israeli MP

2018

December 18th Migrant sex worker: a term that has arrived
December 4th Migrant Caravan in Tijuana: Report from a volunteer lawyer
November 26th Sex workers may unionise – but can prostitutes? The case of Sindicato OTRAS
October 25th Migrant sex worker in a Thai brothel: Le Carré’s The Secret Pilgrim
July 17th Highways as sexwork-places, with chairs
May 17th Back to Barcelona: Migration and Sex Work
April 12th Grid girls and the Presidents Club: Women and sexist jobs
April 2nd Victimisation of Mary Prince: Early Rescue-Industry history
March 13th Report from Macedonia: Balkan Noir
March 12th Strike4Decrim on Women’s ‘Day’ Soho 8 March 2018

2017

December 29th Sex at the Margins: Beyond Binaries in Trafficking & Sex Work
December 20th The New Abolitionist Model
December 13th International Day To End Violence against Sex Workers
December 11th Xiaojie: no sexworker identity
November 22nd If you thought Trafficking was a bad term, try Modern Slavery
November 3rd Sex work in fiction: Gorky Park, Moscow prostitution doesn’t exist
November 1st All that is trafficking is rape, and other emotional excesses
October 16th Migrants sell sex in flats, or are they brothels?
September 28th Incitement to paedophilia: It’s the zeitgeist
September 22nd Who are migrant sex workers?
July 13th Nigerian migrant women as subjects: Sex work in fiction
June 19th Paying for sex in Graham Greeneland: Sex work in fiction
June 5th Wearing slammerkins and dreaming: Sex work in fiction
May 29th Social-Problem novels and The Three-Headed Dog
May 25th Worker declines rescue in Magdalen Nabb: Sex work in fiction
May 22nd Ellroy’s Black Dahlia as a B-girl: Sex work in fiction
May 19th The girlfriend experience in Lawrence Block: Sex work in fiction
May 17th Hustling and cruising with John Rechy: Sex work in fiction
May 15th James Lee Burke with French Quarter scam: Sex work in fiction
May 11th The postwar London of Doris Lessing: Sex work in fiction
May 8th The Rescue Industry has a song
May 4th More 5-star reviews for The Three-Headed Dog
May 2nd Interviews by Johnny Lemuria and Maggie McNeill
April 30th Who is the Three-Headed Dog? Surveillance and migration
March 29th Interview with Radio Ava, sexworker radio in London
March 20th Pimping as a job: Blood on Snow and The Three-Headed Dog
March 14th Reader reviews of The Three-Headed Dog
March 12th Thinking about sex work as work: Dublin Anarchist Book Fair
February 20th Sexwork and migration fiction (4): To go with sex tourists or smugglers?
February 15th Being and being reviewed: Books as pieces of self
February 10th Sexwork and migration fiction, part 3: Location and nation
January 31st Sexwork and migration fiction, part 2 : Jobs in the sex industry
January 27th Migrants in novels: James Ellroy, The Black Dahlia
January 23rd Sexwork and migration fiction, part 1: Melodrama and archetypes
January 9th The Three-Headed Dog: Sexwork and Migration Mystery
January 5th Sexwork expressionism from Edvard Munch, or Everyday life in a brothel

2016

December 17th Exchange on an anti-trafficking hotline

2015

November 2nd Trafficking: The globalisation of weak thinking and dumb language
September 1st End Demand: the B movie
August 31st Research is not activism: And whose interests are at stake, anyway?
January 12th Is Sex at the Margins (going to be) a classic?
January 7th Becoming aware of Awareness-Raising as anti-trafficking tactic

2014

September 19th ‘Sex Work is Not Sex Trafficking’: An idea whose time has not come
July 3rd Fantasies that matter: Images of sex work in media and art
July 1st Somaly Mam, Nick Kristof and the Cult of Personality
March 27th No, Virginia, This is not a study of The Underground Commercial Sex Economy
February 24th Meanings of sex work
February 3rd My Texas talk on anti-trafficking and the denial of women’s consent
January 13th Sweden and prostitution law: the conditions of possibility
January 6th Women doing things again, on their own

2013

December 21st Sex at the Margins: holiday gift or way to escape the celebrations
December 4th What does the French prostitution law mean? Denial of consent
November 12th Contentious and contradictory: Prostitution-law campaigns in Europe
November 4th France anti-prostitution crusade succeeding, rights activists disqualified from debate
September 23rd Social-work projects fail sex workers despite helping-hands image
September 16th Does banning prostitution make women safer? The perils of interviews
September 12th Segregation, colonialism and unfreedom at the border
September 9th Judge dismisses academic claim to sex-trafficking expertise
August 28th Stigma and disqualification not the same as hatred and fear
August 26th Prostitution Law & the Death of Whores in Jacobin Magazine
August 12th Fallen Women: persistence of an image
August 5th The irrationality of prostitution laws
August 1st Cry with trafficked women: Colonial prurience and 3-star hotels
June 19th Remembering Judge Himel: Bold assertions and inflammatory language not useful to the court
June 3rd My Erotic Award as Campaigner: win for a reasonable point of view
May 23rd Intellectual influence (or grooming, if you feel paranoid)
May 19th Video of Sex Work as Work: some ideas on labour policy and organising
May 16th Law against buying sex: Yawn, not even on the timeline
May 12th Naked musings on borders, illegality and personal identity
May 6th Good-time girls and other non-professionals taking money for sex
April 22nd I am not Michael O’Leary, and other meditations on public performance
April 15th The prohibition of things: Deterrence, Punishment and Rescue
April 8th Sex at the Margins: The book that named the Rescue Industry
April 2nd A Migrant World of Services: the emotional, sexual and caring services of women
March 31st Sex on Sunday: Beware of the Anarchist Bookfair & its devilish talk on sex work
March 25th Dear Students of Sex Work and Trafficking
March 7th The Em- of Empowerment: Neoliberal missionaries and maternalism
March 4th The Cultural Study of Commercial Sex: Needed more than ever
February 28th Sex at the Margins reviewed in Gender & Development
February 24th Sex on Sunday: Sleaze and survival, taxi-dancing in Times Square
February 15th Talking about sex work without isms: Dublin Anarchist Bookfair
February 14th Anarchists, activists, academics: April in Dublin
January 31st Chink in the Evangelical wall: Sex trafficking, colonialism and Christian ethics
January 18th HIV and Sex Work: The View from 2012
January 16th Listen to Sex at the Margins: It’s now an audiobook
January 14th UK survey on prostitution funded by Christian CARE
January 2nd Sex-worker group in Sweden, Rose Alliance, in the news

2012

December 21st Sex at the Margins now on Kindle: Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry
December 20th Does legalised prostitution increase trafficking? Who knows, without real data?
December 12th Nordic/Swedish models: laws criminalising the purchase of sex
December 2nd Sex boxes are not boxes: Regulation of prostitution in Zurich
November 9th Border Crossing: Looking for sex-victims and sex workers
November 6th Research for Sex Work: Edition on HIV and Sex Work out soon
October 15th Rescuing a sex slave/worker in a novel: The Darkest Little Room
October 10th Annals of the Rescue Industry: Celebrities pose, feeling good
October 3rd Kristof’s asinine smarm: the Soft Side of Imperialism redux
September 27th Did the Olympics affect London’s sex industry?
September 25th Trafficking gravytrain boarded by clueless men: Cupcakes ahoy!
September 4th Second-wave feminism: Revolution, not Rescue
August 20th Wannabe Special Agents act out fantasies about sex slaves
August 13th Summertime Imperialism: Meet sex-trafficking victims and other sad folk
July 20th Against sexual fundamentalism: harm reduction, condoms and sex work
July 12th The Age of Women Who Sell Sex: Does Kristof lie? What about the children?
July 3rd Acting Up about sex work, and how middle-class norms rely on police enforcement
June 25th Satanic Sex on Sunday: Gunilla Ekberg, Sex War and Extremist Feminism
June 24th No crime associated with brothels in Sydney
June 18th Mayor Bloomberg, DSK, taxi drivers: Which women are sex workers? trafficking victims?
June 16th Journal specialises in sex workers’ ideas and research: call for papers
June 15th Stop the Arrests (of sex workers): Campaign launches in London 18 June
June 10th Thai government panders to US anti-trafficking policy, ignores changes in Entertainment Industry
June 6th European Women’s Lobby lies about sex trafficking, prostitution and sporting events
June 3rd Sex as Work and Sex Work: a marxian take
May 29th Slick misleading infotainment on sex trafficking from the BBC: No one’s immune, then
May 25th Have you signed the letter to stop arrests of sex workers during the Olympics?
May 20th Callgirls are more honest than anti-male campaigners says Lambeth protester
May 16th Don’t Talk to Me About Sewing Machines (to rescue me from selling sex): Videos
May 12th Nordic Network: Sex workers and social workers meet
May 10th Getting money to prevent sex trafficking even if there isn’t any: London Olympics
May 5th One London borough wants to End Demand: Clients of sex workers beware
May 2nd Girls who buy sex from beach boys: Sex tourism in Bali
April 28th Sex Panic and the Punitive State: Where’s prostitution? What happened to sex trafficking?
April 25th Sex workers at AWID reject feminist fundamentalism
April 21st The Sex Industry in Spain: Sex clubs, flats, agriculture, tourism
April 15th New York Times’s cheesy ersatz reporting on migrant women, sex work and trafficking
April 9th Anatomy of sex trafficking funding: How to get money for a Rescue project
April 6th Gloria Steinem calls prostitution Body Invasion, as feminists go on quarreling
April 5th Sex workers without sewing machines at AWID in Istanbul
April 1st The Canadian prostitution decision: Class, race, gender and the street
March 27th Sex Work, Trafficking and the Olympics: Call for a Moratorium on Arrests
March 25th Rescue as Scam: Australian charity lies about saving girls from sex slavery
March 22nd The Sex Tourist: A prayer to End His Demand
March 19th Chinese sex workers, in and out of China
March 15th Thai sex workers: Anti-trafficking Rescues are Our Biggest Problem
March 9th Knights in Shining Armour: Men who Rescue Sex Workers and Slaves
March 8th Kolkata Sex Worker Collective DMSC Celebrates 20 Years
March 4th Sex on Sunday: Greatest Hits from BBC World Debate on Human Trafficking (for fans)
March 2nd Sex Slavery Solved by Sleight of Hand: Siddharth Kara
February 29th Ashton Kutcher Voyeur at Police Raid for Child Pornography
February 23rd Forget Victimisation: Granting Agency to Migrants
February 18th Vocational training as Rescue so far mostly useless: sex workers in India
February 14th Letter from the prostitute that didn’t want saving, 1858
February 11th Fallen women, including the one Charles Dickens didn’t save
February 8th Guess a way to guess numbers of trafficking victims and win a big prize!
February 6th Could abolitionists stop mixing up chattel slavery with sex slavery?
February 4th Sex at the Margins available as ebook
February 3rd Kristof and the Rescue Industry: the Soft Side of Imperialism
February 1st Gold digging with gold miners: an old tradition
January 29th Changing the mentality of men who buy sex: here’s Madrid
January 25th US Trafficking Office wants your help with imperialist anti-trafficking operations
January 18th Clean-cut girls: Something must be wrong if they are selling sex
January 13th Sex workers and Violence against Women: Utopic Visions or Battle of the Sexes?
January 9th Sex at the Margins in Stockholm: Migration & Prevention
January 7th Sisters of the Night: why prostitution research is the way it is
January 4th Men who buy sex: a nasty group whose DNA should be on file (says Farley)
January 1st Sex on Sunday: Call Girls, good and bad

2011

December 29th Women Doing Things: Not waiting to be saved
December 21st Rescue Industry rejected by trafficking victims, Google notwithstanding
December 18th Alternate Ethics: Why it is okay to lie to researchers, as a sex worker, drug user or anybody else
December 17th Ovanlig panel om prostitution i Stockholm
December 16th Sex work, danger and law in Canada: Xtra!
December 10th Commissario Brunetti’s world-weariness with prostitution, migration and other crimes
December 6th Sex slavery, the eros, ignorance
December 4th Kristof’s seventh-grade sex slave, censorship and colonialism
December 1st Devious smuggling routes for undocumented workers or trafficking victims
November 25th Real media coverage for critique of anti-trafficking Rescue Industry
November 22nd The Conceit of Nicholas Kristof: Rescuing sex slaves as saintliness
November 19th Laura in Toronto: VENUE CHANGE for sex trafficking, sex work and rescue talk
November 17th Sex at the Margins in Vancouver: sex trafficking, migrant sex work and rescue
November 16th The Thrill of Rescue: trafficking, slavery and prestige
November 12th Lost Boys and the disclaimer about sex-trafficked ‘foreigners’
November 9th If this were about men, they would be seen as empowered: sex selection, sex trafficking and girls
November 5th Note to researchers: Forget trips to view no sex trafficking in Sweden
November 4th Sex work, migration and the Rescue Industry in Ottawa
November 2nd Sex Work Café in Montréal with Stella, Laura and Carol Leigh
October 31st Irresponsible talk on sex work, gender equality, sex tourism and state feminism
October 30th Lancement de Luttes XXX, Montréal: Travailleuses du sexe
October 27th Irish government uses my writing on Swedish anti-prostitution law without mentioning my name: theft or taboo?
October 26th Good intentions: what religions have, right? Nonsense on sex trafficking
October 25th Sex offenders and clients of sex workers: creating monsters
October 24th Sex scandals: Mrs Robinson, the Pope and Julian Assange
October 20th Teen prostitutes don’t want to be saved so they must be brainwashed, right?
October 19th Decriminalise sex work says Society for the Study of Social Problems
October 8th Sex work organising at the Sex Worker Open University: workshop
October 3rd Civilised loans versus debt bondage and slavery
September 29th Have fun, take a tour to meet victims of sex trafficking, learn to be a saviour
September 25th Leaving Home for Sex: Cosmopolitanism or sex trafficking or both?
September 22nd African women in Europe willing to play the trump card God has wedged between their legs – or sex trafficking, if you prefer
September 18th Sex on Sunday: Sex work and sex workers in new film on Mexico, Bangladesh, Thailand
September 13th Women as second-rate citizens of globalisation, 6 October, Brighton, talk by Laura Agustín
September 13th Migranten som resenär: Laura Agustín i Arena
September 10th BBC Human Trafficking Debate now in UK: Mira Sorvino’s Moral Outrage
September 6th Sex at the Margins in a Pleasantly Surprising African Europe
September 3rd Migrants in the Mistress’s House: Other Voices in the Trafficking Debate
August 28th Do you know whether or not you are a prostitute? asks a Shanghai sign
August 24th Sex worker activism around the world: a Rights argument
August 21st Even sex-trafficked brothel workers reject raids and rescues
August 17th Man-eating women from the not-so-distant past
August 14th Sunday Shock! There are proud sex workers in Sweden (which some have known all along)
August 12th Youth on the street, selling sex and End Demand
August 8th Disappearing of a Migration Category: Migrants Who Sell Sex
August 3rd Sex Industry Pictures: Sex work, sex tourism, brothels, history
July 31st Prostitutes sex-traffick selves to work at Amsterdam airport
July 29th Marriages called human trafficking whether women want them or not: Egypt and the Gulf
July 26th Borrowing money to migrate can go wrong but all is not abusive ‘debt bondage’
July 22nd Melissa Farley and the US government Want You to Stop Buying Sex: End Demand
July 22nd Melissa Farley and Laura Agustín on Prostitution, with Skeletons
July 17th US spends $109 million to fight human trafficking in 2010
July 15th Trafficking convictions in Sweden: tortuous laws about sex
July 12th Women resist rescue by anti-trafficking police, who admit it
July 9th Child sex trafficking: why statistics should matter to the Rescue Industry
July 5th Only playing stupid about sex trafficking? Pull the other one, Ashton
July 3rd Funding for EWL anti-prostitution campaign challenged in parliament
June 29th Institutionalised arrogance: once again, the Trafficking in Persons report
June 26th The (Crying) Need for Different Kinds of Research: Not all is trafficking and AIDS
June 22nd Bedford v Canada: Report from the courtroom on prostitution law and sex work
June 19th Man licking women will make men stop buying sex? Anti-prostitution feminism goes wacky
June 18th Not sex trafficking: False Papers as a means to migrate
June 16th The Sex in ‘Sex Trafficking’: about sex acts and nationality
June 16th Le sexe dans «la traite sexuelle»
June 15th Trabalho sexual é trabalho: Porto, Portugal
June 12th Staying calm about trafficking and the Olympics: reasonable testimony in a London council meeting
June 10th Sex at the Margins a Trieste: Casa Internazionale delle Donne
June 8th New Zealand fails to exclude migrants from its sex industry
June 5th The Bad Vibrations of Anatomical Fundamentalism: World Gender War
June 1st Conviction and punishment in Sweden for buying sex, 1999-2009
May 30th Le monde mystérieux du sexe à travers les frontières: migration et traite
May 27th Ambassador CdeBaca’s incoherent ideas on trafficking and slavery
May 24th Sex at the Margins a Roma e Messina: Laura Agustín on migration and the sex industry
May 22nd Sweatshop jobs or sex work in Cambodia: Rescue Industry fails to understand
May 21st Migrant maid unlikely to risk all for sex, even if guest is DSK
May 14th On the road in Andalucía
May 9th Pickups, loose women, good-time girls, prostitutes: enemies who carried disease
May 5th Rescue Industry history: Magdalene laundries in Ireland, sex workers enslaved
April 30th Rapport douteux sur la loi d’achat de sexe, Svenska Dagbladet
April 30th Quitter son pays pour le sexe
April 30th La loi suédoise contre l’achat de sexe la prostitution, la traite: efficacité pas prouvée
April 30th L’utilisation irresponsable des données relatives à la traite: Loi suédoise contre l’achat de sexe
April 30th Derrière le visage heureux de la loi suédoise anti-prostitution
April 30th La fumée dans les yeux: l’évaluation de la loi anti-prostitution suédoise offre de l’idéologie, pas de la méthodologie
April 30th Rapport suédois basé sur de mauvais chiffres danois de la prostitution de rue
April 30th Pas de méthode dans l’évaluation de la loi Suédoise contre l’achat de sexe
April 30th Grandes prétentions, peu de preuves: la loi de la Suède contre l’achat de sexe
April 26th Denmark’s Grosse Freiheit: Red-light name for anti-prostitution Rescue Industry event
April 21st London Olympics and the spectre of trafficking: police already repressing sex work
April 19th Migranten som resenär (sexindustrin inkluderade) : Lauras artikel i Arena
April 17th Sex Workers on Sunday: what people say themselves about exchanging money for sex
April 15th Europe’s anti-prostitution initiatives multiply: EU itself and now France
April 14th Women who sell sex do not fall into two neat categories, the Strong and the Weak
April 11th Truckers, truck stops, lot lizards and sex trafficking victims: what confusion
April 9th Moving to Africa to save trafficking victims?
April 7th Good news: Strangers Seldom Kidnap Children in New York (a non-trafficking story)
April 5th Psy theories come to trafficking: first brainwashing, now Stockholm Syndrome
April 2nd Sex slavery scare called a waste of time in Kansas
March 31st Social movement mainstreaming: Anti-trafficking by DJs, by country musicians and at film festival
March 29th Bangalore sex workers reject rescue by Supreme Court judge
March 27th Sex on Sunday: What’s a nice girl like you doing doing sex work?
March 25th Prohibir anuncios de contactos no combate la trata ni en Mexico ni en ninguna parte
March 23rd New Sexuality Studies: including sex work, migration and trafficking
March 20th Sex on Sunday: Are clubs sexier? what is a sex club?
March 17th Profiling of trafficking victims: Women migrants who ‘look like prostitutes’ or ‘act out’
March 15th Review of Sex at the Margins in American Ethnologist
March 13th Sex on Sunday: Games, porn, sexism, gender and more games
March 11th Surrogate mothers now said to be victims of trafficking
March 8th Precarious, flexible labour and the sex work connexion
March 6th Sex on Sunday: Sex::Tech, Porn Research and a Long Kiss
March 4th Technology as a check on migration (I mean trafficking): good luck, Nigeria
March 2nd Sex tourism at guesthouses by older lgbt people? Bring in the anti-trafficking police immediately
February 28th International marriage broking called trafficking, of course
February 25th Hating sex workers, and parodies thereof, and a Copenhagen event
February 22nd Trafficking estimates/guesses/fantasies, with and without sex and slavery
February 20th Sex on Sunday: Foreign brides in Taiwan, Celebrity (not Julian Assange) accused of rape in Mexico, Asexuality and romance
February 17th They Speak, But Who Listens to (Migrant) Sex Workers?
February 14th Extremist Feminism in Swedish government: Something Dark
February 12th Mrs Mubarak’s Anti-Trafficking Project Endangered: Imelda Marcos, anyone?
February 8th The right to have rights: Undocumented migration and health care in Germany
February 6th Sex on Sunday Special: What do we have in common? What would a counter-campaign look like?
February 4th Naked Anthropologist emailings and facebook: how to get Laura Agustín’s news
February 3rd Desiring different others, different colours, and even paying them
February 1st Texas prostitution policy sends sex workers to jail, costs taxpayers a fortune
January 30th Sex on Sunday: Girls in Berlin, Morocco, Algeria and Bangladesh
January 29th Prostitute, Amanti, Protette: Berlusconi’s world and stigma against sex workers
January 27th People-smuggling from Turkey: the sheep trade
January 25th How the terms trafficking, smuggling and migration are mixed and muddled
January 23rd Sex on Sunday: Sexy hanging out
January 22nd BBC World Debate on Trafficking Online: Sex, lies and videotaping
January 21st Super Bowl fans greeted with End Demand (for paid sex) billboards in Texas
January 19th Skarhed admits scientific method was lacking in evaluation of Swedish law against buying sex
January 17th Breakthrough: anti-trafficking activist says I have the right to speak
January 16th Sex on Sunday: Chicago’s Leather Museum, Portland’s trafficking myth and Barcelona escort interviewed
January 13th Naked Anthropologist interviewed about sex trafficking, the BBC and run-in with movie star
January 11th Becoming Miss America by rescuing trafficking victims on the India-Nepal border?
January 9th Sex on Sunday: Porn, horror, brutishness, sex and law, damned law
January 7th Counting undocumented migrants, trafficking victims or not, involves statistical acrobatics
January 6th Regulating Sex: Seminar in London
January 4th Chinese trafficked sex workers refuse rescue from Congo
January 2nd Sex on Sunday: Taxi queens, English teachers in Korea and Picasso’s soliciting prostitute
January 1st Campaigns against kerb-crawling are part of End Demand, an anti-prostitution strategy that does not support sex workers!

2010

December 30th People-smuggling a plot detail in John Le Carré
December 28th 19th-century techniques for counting prostitutes: same problem as today
December 25th Sex on Sunday: Christmas in the Brothel, Christmas card from a hooker in Minneapolis and Hard Candy Christmas
December 21st Young people who sell sexiness or sex and resist victimisation, in the UK
December 19th Sex on Sunday: 17th-century Japanese prostitute wear, red-light fight in Taiwan and Saudis ban Moroccan women from pilgrimage
December 17th BBC World Debate on Trafficking televised this weekend, with the Naked Anthropologist
December 16th Helping Women Who Sell Sex: The Construction of Benevolent Identities
December 14th Numbers of trafficking victims fall in Germany
December 12th Sex on Sunday: Shoes
December 10th The Naked Anthropologist attends a UN event to end human trafficking
December 8th Is rape rampant in gender-equal Sweden? Re Assange and Wikileaks
December 7th Police streetwalking in Pattaya: Will it prevent human trafficking?
December 5th Sex on Sunday: Historians study prostitutes in 19th-century Victoria, New Orleans and New York
December 2nd Once again garbage in, garbage out as a method for counting sex-trafficking victims, from the New York Times
November 28th Sex on Sunday: Dinner dates, money dating, shopping money and sex
November 24th All the scary things a little decriminalisation of prostitution might cause in Canada
November 22nd Last stop Zurich, 24 November: Taking the morality out of conversations about commercial sex
November 21st Sex on Sunday: sworn virgins, passionate nunneries and slutty women
November 19th Child trafficking, or kids who leave home, and their pimps and their friends, in Las Vegas
November 17th Me and Catharine MacKinnon on prostitution, gender, patriarchy and sex: not two minds with but a single thought
November 15th Children and sex: prostitution, rescues, statistics, money and the FBI
November 14th Sex on Sunday: sugar daddies, acrobatic vaginas, geishas and sex education
November 12th Kajsa Ekis Ekmans okunnighet om sexarbetare är skrämmande
November 10th Inexperienced sex workers, unscrupulous agents: recipe for trafficking
November 8th Note to anti-prostitutionists: Sex worker movements are nothing to sneer at
November 7th Sex on Sunday: External signs of sex, kiss-in for the pope and army pin-ups
November 5th If this is Tuesday, it must be Fribourg: back-to-back gigs to talk about sex and migration
November 4th Elizabeth Bernstein’s review of Sex at the Margins
November 2nd This reporting is better: human smuggling and exploitation of migrants
October 31st Sex on Sunday: megabrothel in Spain, hopeless nannying, family-friendly sex resort
October 28th Sex trafficking: the Next Generation in Odessa
October 25th Saved at last? or Sex Workers Don’t Want Rescue? Stories from India
October 24th Sex on Sunday: gay-4-pay and trans brothel work
October 21st Migrant sex workers in China: massage parlours, hair salons, hotel rooms
October 19th Saving prostitutes or chasing out sex workers: Don Benzi, Abruzzo and deforestation
October 18th Laura Agustín’s calendar in Switzerland: Migration, trafficking and commercial sex
October 17th Sex on Sunday: dancer solidarity, urban strip clubs, judge patronises strippers
October 15th Sexo y marginalidad en América Latina
October 14th Change the world by getting men to stop buying sex: Spain
October 12th Turf wars associated with lap dancing: It’s all about men
October 10th Sex on Sunday: Male chastity belts, demimonde cocottes and sex-lexis
October 8th Battle of Ideas on human trafficking: London, 31 October 2010
October 7th Business strategies brought to campaign to ‘End Demand’ for commercial sex
October 5th Soldiers in a War: Anti-trafficking as Abolitionism
October 3rd Sex on Sunday: Non-monogamy explained, if men could menstruate and a schoolteacher who sold sex
September 30th US anti-traffickers think they have a ‘global responsibility’: just more imperialism
September 29th Anyone in or near Geneva 5 October? Sex trafficking and Rescue Industry on the agenda
September 28th Migrant Burmese women forced to marry Chinese men
September 26th Sex on Sunday: A Map of the Lands of Human Sexuality
September 23rd Magical thinking of Swedish-law evaluation refuted by new Swedish research
September 21st Prostitution is legal in Switzerland: what’s the catch?
September 20th Prague proposes to ‘legalise prostitution’ – again
September 19th Sex on Sunday: Las Vegas 1941, loveless marriages, sex as work (again)
September 16th Loverboys, trafficked women, job offers, sex work: migration
September 14th Laura Agustín, the Naked Anthropologist, to talk in six Swiss cities on migration, trafficking and sex. Video of Laura!
September 12th Sex on Sunday: escort advertising, sex as work and some people prefer the street
September 9th Sex trafficking victims help themselves to escape: Thais in Spain
September 7th Trafficked men forced to take viagra and sell sex 24 hours a day: Hang on
September 5th Sex Shops on Sunday
September 3rd From Postmodern Nadir to Feminist Maverick: Sex at the Margins rides again
September 1st Polémica sobre trabajo sexual, anuncios de contacto, mafias, trata y periodismo
August 31st Can advertising be trafficking? Is Craigslist like Wal-Mart? Is freedom involved?
August 29th Sex on Sunday: Regulated prostitution in Georgia and casual sex is not harmful and may lead to rewarding relationships
August 27th Buying sex abroad causes trafficking at home? Flawed reasoning about the sex industry from Scotland
August 25th Sting operations: clients charged US$1000-2000 for making deals with cop-prostitutes
August 22nd Sex on Sunday: Dancing (erotic, exotic, artistic, talented)
August 19th State Feminist shaming keeps Swedish politicians quiet about sex-purchase law
August 17th Police quarrel about which bad method to use to estimate trafficking victims, UK
August 15th Sex on Sunday: ladyboys, lousy jobs besides sex work and Woman as Cello
August 14th Garbage in, garbage out: Irresponsible use of trafficking data
August 13th Important Enemies: Hating sex-work academics or hating research?
August 10th Middlemen: between truck-driving clients and women who sell sex, Uganda
August 8th Sex on Sunday: peep shows, hustlers, nautch girls, men of steel
August 5th It’s never too early to begin panicking about sex trafficking: London Olympics 2012
August 3rd What do sex-buying statistics mean? More anti-trafficking efforts, that’s what
August 2nd South African trafficking report with no methodology: is this an epidemic?
August 1st Sex on Sunday: gold diggers, hookers and hot dancing in Seattle
July 30th Yokohama red-light district: sex work cubicles
July 27th Anti-trafficking poster objectifies victims: Sheepshead Bay, New York
July 25th Sex on Sunday: non-monogamy, sexless feminists, warped women
July 22nd Anti-trafficking campaign with movie star: Emma Thompson doing good
July 20th How ‘Rescue’ from trafficking yet again means police detention and rehabilitation: this time in the Philippines
July 18th Sex on Sunday: shoppers, sirens, maids, marriage y la iglesia católica
July 17th Doubtful report on sex-purchase law, Laura’s article from a Swedish newspaper
July 15th Smoke gets in your eyes: Evaluation of Swedish anti-prostitution law offers ideology, not methodology
July 13th Are brothels bad? When are they good? Why do sex workers oppose obligatory health checks?
July 11th Sex on Sunday: strippers, Paris sewing cafe, spies as femmes fatales
July 9th Serbian sex work: Doprinos „Razvoju“: Novac zarađen prodajom seksualnih usluga
July 7th Swedish report based on wrong Danish numbers for street prostitution
July 4th Behind the happy face of the Swedish anti-prostitution law
July 4th Sex on Sunday: Erotic fiction, NIMBY feminism, porn and Old West madams
July 2nd Swedish evaluation of law banning purchase of sex: unsupported claims
July 1st Baby seats in the cars of clients of sex workers: betrayal of Family?
June 29th Japanese sex-industry advertising: hostess business cards, sex information centre, brothel magazine
June 27th Sex on Sunday: outdoor sex work, police entrapment and cheating as good fun
June 25th Racolage ou non? Is sitting by the road ‘soliciting’? When does prostitution begin?
June 24th Agency and prostitution: Sex workers target rich male victims
June 22nd Women are not children – remember? Flawed ideas about improving Sweden’s sex-purchase law
June 20th Sex on Sunday: tits sell, hating marriage, loving paternity
June 19th Prohibidas 150 cosas más en las calles de Granada: el trabajo sexual un detalle
June 17th Debunking the 40 000 prostitutes story again: South Africa World Cup
June 15th Mafia bars, hot hustling, Bruce Benderson
June 13th Sex on Sunday: man-hungry hussies, multicolour marriages, taxes and two interviews with smart women
June 11th Decriminalisation of sex work/prostitution: argument from SWEAT
June 10th Sex workers travel on their own to the World Cup, and elsewhere
June 8th Men and football: a recipe for sexual violence?
June 6th Sex on Sunday: chorus boy talk, practically-trafficked nannies and sex offenders as queers
June 1st Piggies and Mall Girls: teens who sell sex in Poland, and their sponsors
May 30th Sex on Sunday: kinky feminism, sex research and ‘hooker’ as an insult
May 27th If you don’t want the porn work, you don’t answer the advert: another aspect of the Rescue Industry
May 25th Rehabilitation: such an old-fashioned concept. If you want out, that’s different
May 23rd Sex on Sunday: cougars threaten google, cctv rules the UK, and why Europe needs migration
May 21st Sex at the Margins goes to Poland
May 20th Sex industry safer in New Zealand since decriminalisation
May 18th A post-trafficking view of Sex at the Margins
May 16th Sex on Sunday: queer, jewish, white, secular, latino….
May 13th Prostitutes and clients carouse: Pictures of inequality?
May 11th Anti-demand prostitution law called achievement of ‘gender equality’: Fiji
May 9th Sex on Sunday: nannies, ‘splainers, taxi drivers and sex workers
May 6th Bilbao prohibe ‘prácticas sexuales incívicas’, trabajo sexual incluido
May 4th Bisexual men have wives, tourist boyfriends and also sell sex in Kenya
May 2nd Sex on Sunday: bites from elsewhere
April 29th Everyday street prostitution with mobile phones in prohibitionist Pakistan
April 26th Rescues that punish those they’re meant to save: Cambodia again
April 23rd ‘With two of us you had backup’: Prostitute on trial because she didn’t work alone, Britain
April 22nd Redadas contra el trabajo sexual, México DF: una excusa para limpiar las calles
April 15th Transactional sex and bartered sex: Is there a good reason to distinguish from commercial sex?
April 12th Laura to give classes on migration, gender, the sex industry: Switzerland
April 8th Lap dancing as sexual entertainment: Britain
April 6th This won’t stop trafficking: UK law on exploitation and gain
April 2nd Easy to travel? Think again: Surveillance and policing at European borders
March 31st Témoinage de Karen, une prostituée lyonnaise
March 29th World Cups, the sex industry and panics about trafficking: health, not morals, can be basis for policy
March 26th Copenhagen seminar: Rescue industry and migrant struggles
March 25th Mujeres migrantes empleadas domésticas y su trabajo feudal: Migrants demonstrate in Spain over feudal conditions of domestic work
March 22nd Fish for money, not for sex: opportunistic sex work
March 18th Otaku sex, virtual girlfriends, cosplay: is paid sex with real people best?
March 15th Women must be allowed to massage soldiers of all sexes: Swedish gender-equality policy on the ground
March 11th Migrant sex workers, medieval Japanese
March 10th Trafficking: Framing the questions, Providing the proofs
March 8th Kamathipura red lights give way to skyscrapers: Mumbai
March 4th Sex worker union raises prices in Ghana
March 1st Mayor asserts his personal morality is above the law: New South Wales
February 26th ‘Sex-hungry’ babes lure and trick client-victims: a change from the usual
February 24th Male prostitutes, Russia
February 18th Egypt: ‘Prostitutes’ are not whores, and vice-versa
February 15th UNAIDS People on the Move, including mobile sex workers and their clients
February 11th Eating sandwiches and selling sex in the street: Offending whose sensibilities?
February 8th Prohibido: Sexo y otras actividades callejeras | Prohibited: Sex and other street activities
February 4th ‘Economic’ an insult only when applied to migrants: Israel builds fences to keep them out
February 1st Swedish film about German brothel: Why do men buy sex?
January 28th Red-light raids said to promote ‘online brothels’, Singapore
January 25th Sex industry diversifies, Pakistan
January 22nd Stop moralising about our sex lives: Laura’s debate article in Swedish newspaper
January 21st Migrant farm workers in Italy: Any identity but victims?
January 18th Good sex, equal sex: Do feminists have better sex?
January 14th Sex-work money contributes to ‘Development’
January 11th Police to demolish sex businesses in Jakarta
January 9th Sex on Sunday: Saving sex tourists
January 7th Moral duty to raid brothels, Edinburgh: Ian Rankin and Inspector Rebus
January 4th Mobile sex workers spend holidays working in Sonagachi
January 2nd Dans la camionnette: Money-sex exchange inside vans: Italy, France

2009

December 28th Soho, Times Square, Hamburg, New Orleans: Sex industry in black and white
December 23rd Ordenanza anti-prostitución enfrentada en Granada: Civil society confronts Granada’s attempt to control street prostitution
December 21st MSM, some sex workers, want services without being counted and outed, Kenya
December 17th Student sex workers: ‘It’s not only about the money. I love to have a lot of attention’
December 14th 扫黄 Sweeping the yellow in China’s sex-industry-standardised capital
December 9th What does sex work have to do with climate change? Anti-prostitution campaign at Climate Conference, Copenhagen
December 7th Studentesse e precarie in solidarietà con le sex workers: Women are not victims or social problems, Rome
December 2nd Sex workers and researchers defend clients in Vancouver
November 30th Undocumented migrants, inflexible employment systems
November 26th Sex workers arrested because they carry condoms: New York law
November 23rd Rhode Island sex workers out of business
November 18th All-Asian brothels with no trafficking, Queensland
November 16th Sexo y marginalidad: Sex at the Margins translated to Spanish
November 11th Violence Against Women: Too much of a bad thing
November 9th Sex workers choose Pune over Mumbai’s rising rental prices
November 4th Policing sex trafficking in Rio, with farcical elements
November 2nd Red lights, sexual warmth, paid sex
October 30th The Other Swedish Model
October 26th Trafficking as White Slavery, Chicago, 100 years ago
October 21st Hay que tener una visión de las cosas: Mujeres brasileiras en la industria del sexo en España
October 19th Myanmar migrants in factories and brothels, Thailand
October 15th Exiting in the opposite direction: from maids to sex workers in Ethiopia
October 12th The antithesis of love? Dan Allman reviews Sex at the Margins
October 9th Migrants, favours, protection, sex: examples from Embracing the Infidel
October 5th What Vice Squads do to stop street prostitution, Cape Town
October 1st Jesus loves strippers: Christian outreach
September 28th Migrant sex workers in hair salons and saunas, Wuhan, China
September 23rd La Calle: Prostitución y por qué trabajar allí | Prostitution: Why sex work in the street
September 17th English teacher meets hostess, South Korea standbar
September 14th Massage Parlours and Saunas in the daylight
September 8th Naked ladies dance for men: Stripping and sex in New York
September 3rd Is swinging (not) part of the sex industry?
August 31st Phuket’s Sex Tourism, Wife Seeking, Thai/tourist Marriages and a husband’s voice?
August 27th Beirut’s sex tourism, sex industry, sex work – and a pimp’s voice
August 25th Por qué no se puede sacar a las prostitutas migrantes: Why migrant sex workers cannot be got rid of easily
August 24th Irregular migration, Informal economies, Sex work: Metropolis Conference
August 20th Kissing rooms in Korea: new sex-industry wrinkle
August 18th Stripper class-action suit challenges independent-contractor status, Boston
August 17th Ships, shipping, seamen and sex work
August 14th Diese Frauen sind nicht naiv: Interview with Laura Agustín by Neue Zürcher Zeitung
August 12th Spanish bars, Sicilian flats, UK terrace houses: discreet sites of the sex industry
August 11th Ghana Sex Workers Hold Elections
August 10th Bank of Japan counts brothels to gauge demand for sex entertainment
August 7th Taxi-drivers protest police discrimination against migrant sex workers, Mallorca: Taxistas denuncian discriminación policial contra prostitutas migrantes
August 6th Adult entertainment, Licensing, Dance, Burlesque, Sex, Camden
August 5th Love Hotels, No-Tell Motels: Discretion desired, sex work allowed
August 3rd Goa’s sex industry: research on how and where and who’s involved
August 2nd Trabajadoras sexuales peruanas en el Congreso Nacional: Sex worker testimony in Perú’s Congress
July 30th Tax on sex work where prostitution is illegal? Uganda
July 29th Cross-dressing, Cosplay and the Sex Industry
July 27th Cambodian report damns law for confusing trafficking with sex work
July 24th Case history, transgender migrant sexworker, Kyrgyz Republic
July 23rd How to move street prostitution indoors and across borders: Italy and Switzerland
July 21st Controlar el espacio urbano como política de la prostitución: Improving urban space by cleaning out prostitutes, Spain
July 20th Brothel discounts in Germany for green and unemployed customers
July 16th Burlesque in New York and the Exotic World
July 14th European brothels in the daylight
July 13th Changing prices for sex work in Sonagachi, a Kolkata red-light district (from the Naked Anthropologist)
July 11th Taiwan: decriminalization of prostitution and the classic debate
July 9th Prevention of trafficking? Keeping women at home, more like
July 6th West Africa’s children: are they trafficked? What are child rights?
July 3rd New Statesman: The Myth of Trafficking
July 1st Is Decriminalization of Prostitution Harm Reduction?
June 29th Marcha de trabajador@s sexuales en Perú: un bochinche/Sex workers march in Lima
June 26th TIP: Trafficking in Persons, the No-Methodology Report
June 24th What Not to Wear if you want to be French, and other tales of sex and women
June 22nd What’s Wrong with the Trafficking Crusade? TIP Report Revisited
June 19th Migrant clients, table and taxi dances and sex work in New York
June 17th Red-light district razed in Goa, sex industry and trafficking take new forms
June 14th Decriminalising sex work only half the battle: South Africa
June 11th Making money on sex in Malaysia: massage or ‘Rent a Wife?’
June 8th Childhood, trafficking research, agency and cultural contradictions
June 4th Enjo kosai: compensated dating (or child prostitution) in Japan
June 1st Laws to control prostitution ineffective and irrational
May 28th Signs with SEX on a New Zealand street: escorts and schools
May 25th Gay tourism, ‘lewd adverts’ and the sex industry in Tel Aviv
May 21st 1 de Maio em Lisboa: Sex workers march in Lisbon on May Day
May 18th Albertine (Oslo’s honoured prostitute) and her lovers, clients, pimps
May 13th Learning English to Become a Sex Worker: Benin
May 11th Exotic sex: diversity, ethnicity, whiteness and local prices
May 9th Sex Work: A Review of Recent Literature
May 4th Good Sex, Bad Sex: Sex Law, Crime and Ethics
May 2nd How self-smuggling looks: Calais
April 30th How people-smuggling looks: Gambia to the Canaries
April 27th Whiteness, diversity, multiculturalism and New Zealand’s PRA
April 24th Sex Trafficking Fantasies in New Zealand
April 22nd Street walkers and vigilantes in a New Zealand community
April 20th New Zealand prostitution law, sex work, anti-migration and anti-trafficking
April 15th Webcam girls, virtual sex, sex tourism and the tax man
April 13th Bollywood’s melodramatic portrayal of prostitutes, sex workers, call girls
April 10th Sayad’s The Suffering of the Immigrant: book review by Laura Agustín
April 8th Chicha Mariani busca a su nieta: another kind of human trafficking
April 6th Male and trans sex workers, travel, organised crime: But sex trafficking from Korea?
April 3rd Sex industry adapts to anti-trafficking laws, Korea
April 1st Sex worker rally in London against Policing and Crime Bill
March 30th No more sex-industry jobs via UK Jobcentres?
March 27th Karaoke: Developments in entertainment, associations with the sex industry
March 23rd Ni victimes ni coupables: Syndicat | New sex worker union announced in Paris
March 20th Bad reporting: prostitution law, nationalism and the BBC
March 18th UK police raids to find undocumented workers: expensive overkill
March 16th Casa de citas, America Latina: La normalidad del trabajo sexual en un sitio pobre
March 13th Don Kulick’s review of Sex at the Margins
March 11th Trafficking, smuggling, chaos: Undocumenteds aiming at UK
March 7th Paying to watch brothel sex: voyeurs, exhibitionists and reality sex tv
March 4th Brothel photos from World War II France
March 2nd Sex Traffic at London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts
February 27th Border Thinking
February 25th Women as people-smugglers and traffickers
February 23rd Libro Trabajar en la industria del sexo/Book called Working in the Sex Industry
February 20th Host bars and Gender Equality: Men who serve women
February 18th Can national sexual conversations change? sex and money in the USA
February 16th How does the sex industry look? a facebook album
February 13th Chinese women, Australian brothel: money and murder but no trafficking
February 11th Male sex worker in Kenya with ‘important’ clients
February 8th Smuggled people get help from border police themselves
February 2nd Will a famous prostitute be allowed to rest alongside Calvin in Geneva?
January 30th Subtleties within the trafficking idea: Non-reductionism in news from Moldova
January 28th Academic reviews of Sex at the Margins as of December 2008
January 26th Only 10% of alleged trafficking cases in the US confirmed
January 22nd UK unemployment offices carry adverts for jobs in the sex industry: Wrong or Right?
January 19th I’m a girlfriend, they’re my friends: GFE is nothing new
January 16th What’s happening in Amsterdam? An overview of changing prostitution law
January 14th Trabajo sexual y derecho al trabajo: Sex work and the right to work
January 12th Prostituting Women’s Solidarity: Another voice questions the extent of sex trafficking
January 9th Sometimes satire is the best revenge: Anti-trafficking news from Norway
January 7th Strippers spoof Sarah Palin at a Vegas strip club
January 5th False papers and ‘illegal migrants’: Faujis in London
January 2nd ‘We live in an age of helping victims’: new review of Sex at the Margins

2008

December 29th Anti-sex-trafficking Law Causes Police Violence in Cambodia
December 26th Why ‘My Family Came Legally’ Probably Isn’t True
December 19th 對「發展」的貢獻：金錢促使性交易 / Contributing to ‘Development’: Money Made Selling Sex
December 17th More cultural study of commercial sex, including sex tourism, stripping, rentboys, brothels, courtesans, pornography
December 8th Glidecreme og gode intentioner: Lubricant and good intentions
December 3rd The Shadowy World of Sex Across Borders: Anti-sex trafficking proposal in the UK
December 1st Growing demand for sex shops, lapdancing, poledancing and escort agencies
November 26th Sex with animals – another Swedish Model?
November 24th The Femina, a 1930s Berlin club where money and sex met
November 22nd Fotos de trabajador@s sexuales en la conferencia de SIDA, DF, Mexico
November 17th Prostituées d’Europe – Prostitute Women and Sex Workers in Europe
November 11th Hustling and Cruising with John Rechy
November 7th Cambodia Ladyboy Rescue Goes Wrong
November 3rd Talents Needed for Sex Work – a partial list from the year 2000
October 29th Sex Workers Parade Themselves
October 27th Working in the European Sex Industry
October 21st Prostitute, poveri e irregolari – Controlling migrant women, not helping prostitutes (or sex workers)
October 14th Anti-trafficking: Sexy Sex Work Images on Banknotes
October 8th What’s Wrong with Helping? Another example from the world of sex work
October 5th Knowing Best, Doing Good
October 1st Europe: Grin and bare it, German naturists tell Poles
September 26th Green-card spam resembles smuggling opportunity
September 24th European Conference on Sex Work, Human Rights, Labour and Migration
September 19th Ethnicity and satire
September 15th Unwanted Rescues: A poster from Thailand
September 12th Working on ships, travelling by ship
September 9th Migrant workers wait around for work: a description by Ana Castillo
September 8th Migrants paid to leave Spain
September 5th Ambiguous refugees: Blackbirding in 1943
September 4th Performance de sexoservicio revolucionario
September 3rd Plus ça change: Smuggling migrants in 1949
September 3rd Interview with Suzi Weissman of KPFK Los Angeles
August 30th Manifesto against new EU migration law
August 17th The Zed Book’s cover
August 17th BBC Radio 4 Thinking Allowed interview with Laura Agustin
August 17th Susie Bright interview with Laura Agustin
August 17th Erotic Award Finalist
August 17th Mas allá de la victimización
August 17th Australian National Radio: Counterpoint interview
August 17th Spiked Review of Sex at the Margins
August 17th Reason: The Myth of the Migrant
August 17th Doug Henwood’s Interview with Laura Agustin
August 17th Le Immigrate Che Vendono Sesso Non Sono Vittime Ne Schiave
August 17th Die Weltwoche Review
August 16th BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour World Cup Prostitutes
August 15th Nicht alle empfinden das Gleiche über Sex
August 15th Atreverse a cruzar fronteras: migrantes que venden sexo
August 15th Trabajar en la industria del sexo
August 15th Le migrazioni delle donne
August 15th Trafficking: return of the ‘white slavery’ scare?
August 15th Bloggingheads Sex Slaves
August 14th Erotic Review’s Review of Sex at the Margins