Tag: crime

• What it Means To Be a Lady in the Living Room and a Whore in the Bedroom

  7 months ago

  Marina Adshade in Dollars and Sex

  New Jersey Senate candidate Phil Mitsch lost his Republican Party support last week over a tweet in which he shared “good advice” for wives telling them to be “a lady in the living room and a whore in the bedroom”. I think Mr. Mitsch has perhaps lost touch with what it means to be a “whore ... Read More

• What Happens When Hotels Are Also Brothels?

  12 months ago

  Marina Adshade in Dollars and Sex

  Apparently, I am the only person not surprised by the alleged events that took place in Sofitel Hotel in New York City that lead to Dominique Strauss Kahn’s arrest. My lack of surprise has nothing to do with the man in question, but rather stems from my time, as a teenager, working as a chamber ... Read More

• Preventing Human Trafficking is All About Location, Location, Location

  about 1 year ago

  Marina Adshade in Dollars and Sex

  Sweden’s anti-prostitution policies are again a topic of discussion, but now the attention has turned to human trafficking. While the number of street prostitutes has fallen in that country since the government made the purchasing of sex services illegal in 1999, the number of trafficked sex ... Read More

• Sweden’s Approach to the Sex Trade: Let the Buyer Beware

  over 1 year ago

  Marina Adshade in Dollars and Sex

  Sometime I wonder why there isn’t more creative energy applied to finding solutions to social problems that have been created by the proliferation of the sex trades. The debate around policy appears to be driven by those with political (and moral) agendas in such a way that two distinct camps have ... Read More

• Where Should Sex Offenders Live?

  over 1 year ago

  Marina Adshade in Dollars and Sex

    Here in my country, Canada, is it impossible to find out how many sex offenders live in my community. I would like to know but, officially at least, it is none of my business. I do know that there are just over 400 sex offenders in my province of under one million people and about 16,300 ... Read More

• Terror Attacks on Abortion Clinics Do Little to Reduce Abortion Rates

  over 1 year ago

  Marina Adshade in Dollars and Sex

  The most common form of domestic terrorism in the U.S. is violent attacks on abortion clinics. Between 1973 and 2003, over 300 abortion providers were the target of acts of extreme violence by anti-abortion groups. A new paper released by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) last week ... Read More

• The War on Drugs Is Reducing Marriage Rates

  over 1 year ago

  Marina Adshade in Dollars and Sex

  The "Just Say No" campaign in the late 1980s increased the severity of sentencing for drug offenders in the U.S. Since that time, particularly since the mid-1990’s, incarceration rates have been steadily increasing to the point that the U.S. now has the one of the highest incarceration rates in the ... Read More

• Should There Be Prison Time for Unknowingly Transmitting HIV?

  over 1 year ago

  Marina Adshade in Dollars and Sex

  In 2008, 41,269 people in the U.S. were diagnosed with HIV, an increase of 8% from only three years earlier. Known infections make up only 75% of total infections, leaving 25% of HIV infected people unaware that they have the disease. The transmission of HIV by people who are unaware is estimated ... Read More

• Confessions of a College Pimp

  over 1 year ago

  Marina Adshade in Dollars and Sex

  A few weeks ago, when we were talking about educated lap dancers, I wondered if any of my students were paying their way through school working in the sex trades. At the time I had in mind lap dancers, sex workers, escorts, et cetera. I never imagined that there were students paying their way ... Read More

• Canada Decriminalizes Prostitution—Will It Get Sex Workers Off the Streets?

  over 1 year ago

  Marina Adshade in Dollars and Sex

  Looks like Canada could become the Nevada of the north after a court ruled yesterday that the laws that make running a brothel and living off proceeds of prostitution are unconstitutional. The deciding factor in the court’s decision was that the current laws force women onto the streets, putting ... Read More