Prostitution and Sex Workers

Sex Worker Awareness: St. James Infirmary Takes Message to WHO

The Super Bowl Prostitution Hoax

Indianapolis mobilizes for an epic battle with an urban legend.

Sex Work and Society

Indianapolis mobilizes for an epic battle with an urban legend.

Porn Star Activist Jiz Lee Talks About When and How Sex Workers Can Give Consent

​The ethics of consent is becoming a hot, vital topic of discussion in alternative sexuality communities. While talking about consent is something that never quite goes away, especially in BDSM communities, a lot of the dialogue doesn't stray much beyond making sure that everyone is over 18 and kn ... More >>

Support SB 596: Bill Would Fund Shelter and Counseling for Child Prostitutes

​The ethics of consent is becoming a hot, vital topic of discussion in alternative sexuality communities. While talking about consent is something that never quite goes away, especially in BDSM communities, a lot of the dialogue doesn't stray much beyond making sure that everyone is over 18 and kn ... More >>

Lost Boys: New Research Demolishes the Stereotype of the Underage Sex Worker

​The ethics of consent is becoming a hot, vital topic of discussion in alternative sexuality communities. While talking about consent is something that never quite goes away, especially in BDSM communities, a lot of the dialogue doesn't stray much beyond making sure that everyone is over 18 and kn ... More >>

Sex Worker Advocates Launch First Media Campaign -- on Muni

​When you consider the unsavory elements one encounters on Muni -- seeds, stabbings, sermons, and semen, -- an ad campaign advocating for prostitutes' rights is rather benign.Local sex worker activists have launched a media campaign aimed to educate the bus-riding populace that sex workers are pe ... More >>

San Francisco Girls Are Helping Oakland Prostitutes

Owls on the move. ​Last year we wrote about the San Francisco nonprofit Center for Young Women's Development burning -- yes, literally burning -- an unexpected $100,000 check from Craigslist sent to them. The executive director, Marlene Sanchez, told us that the center's clients thought the websit ... More >>

SF Weekly Letters

Owls on the move. ​Last year we wrote about the San Francisco nonprofit Center for Young Women's Development burning -- yes, literally burning -- an unexpected $100,000 check from Craigslist sent to them. The executive director, Marlene Sanchez, told us that the center's clients thought the websit ... More >>

Underage Sex Trafficking: What the Real Numbers Show

Real Men Don't Buy Girls​Despite what news reports have been saying, the underage prostitution industry isn't exactly as pervasive as it seems. The science behind data showing there's as many as 300,000 child prostitutes has never truly been challenged -- until now. Village Voice Media recently sp ... More >>

Mexican Consulate's Campaign Against Trafficking Nets Two Cases

The campaign is bringing in the calls, just not ones reporting trafficking. ​The Mexican Consulate has fielded hundreds of calls in the first two months of its campaign against human trafficking, but only two so far have yielded actual allegations of sex and labor trafficking. One was of a minor w ... More >>

Transgression Run Amok

The campaign is bringing in the calls, just not ones reporting trafficking. ​The Mexican Consulate has fielded hundreds of calls in the first two months of its campaign against human trafficking, but only two so far have yielded actual allegations of sex and labor trafficking. One was of a minor w ... More >>

The Oldest Profession Gets a New Look

The campaign is bringing in the calls, just not ones reporting trafficking. ​The Mexican Consulate has fielded hundreds of calls in the first two months of its campaign against human trafficking, but only two so far have yielded actual allegations of sex and labor trafficking. One was of a minor w ... More >>

Human Trafficking: Campaign Aims to Get More Victims to Come Forward

SPF 15 - for protection from UV rays and from human trafficking in one.​The nonprofit that counsels women who have been arrested for prostitution in San Francisco and the Mexican Consulate have launched a new campaign to seriously crack down on human trafficking. Obviously, the goal is to get more ... More >>

Super Bowl Was Yet Another Chance for Bogus Numbers

SPF 15 - for protection from UV rays and from human trafficking in one.​The nonprofit that counsels women who have been arrested for prostitution in San Francisco and the Mexican Consulate have launched a new campaign to seriously crack down on human trafficking. Obviously, the goal is to get more ... More >>

Women's Funding Network Sex Trafficking Study Is Junk Science

Schapiro Group data wasn't questioned by mainstream media.

Wall of Shame

CNN, USA Today, and other media organizations got fooled.

Chris Daly Roasted -- Video Footage

​People lined up to hear the famously foulmouthed Supervisor Chris Daly get a dose of his own. Daly managed to rake in $5,000 at his Wednesday night roast, drawing a big crowd of both friends and foes. All of that money, Daly says, is going to the St. James Infirmary, which provides medical care ... More >>

Wearing Nothing But a Book

​People lined up to hear the famously foulmouthed Supervisor Chris Daly get a dose of his own. Daly managed to rake in $5,000 at his Wednesday night roast, drawing a big crowd of both friends and foes. All of that money, Daly says, is going to the St. James Infirmary, which provides medical care ... More >>

Stung

Men don’t have to agree to sex in order to get busted in a prostitution sting. They just have to seem interested.

Prostitutes Set to Protest Today

Coming to Polk and Sutter at noon...​Angry prostitutes who won't stand for the city's proposed sit/lie laws are holding a "stand-in" today. The San Francisco-based US PROStitutes Collective -- which has a Facebook page -- have organized the noontime Polk and Sutter "stand-in" At issue is a propose ... More >>

German Brothel Offers Discount to Cyclists, Public Transit Riders. Is San Francisco Next? This Prostitute Says No.

An idea whose time has come​Last month a German brothel owner pulled off the amazing stunt of getting positive recognition worldwide by offering a discount to patrons who headed to the Berlin house of ill repute via bicycles or public transportation. He also offered observers on every continent an ... More >>

"Love" for Sale

An idea whose time has come​Last month a German brothel owner pulled off the amazing stunt of getting positive recognition worldwide by offering a discount to patrons who headed to the Berlin house of ill repute via bicycles or public transportation. He also offered observers on every continent an ... More >>

Unhappy Hookers: Supervisor Carmen Chu Meets Anti-Harlotry Crusader Melissa Farley Today

Lucky for them, Texas ain't in Carmen Chu's jurisdictionPetite, understated, and measured Supervisor Carmen Chu isn't the first person one might choose to face off against crowds of angry hookers. But after months of chaperoning controversial legislation that tightens the City's reigns on massage pa ... More >>

SF Weekly Letters

Lucky for them, Texas ain't in Carmen Chu's jurisdictionPetite, understated, and measured Supervisor Carmen Chu isn't the first person one might choose to face off against crowds of angry hookers. But after months of chaperoning controversial legislation that tightens the City's reigns on massage pa ... More >>

Craigslist executive accuses newspapers of hurting his site's bottom line

Lucky for them, Texas ain't in Carmen Chu's jurisdictionPetite, understated, and measured Supervisor Carmen Chu isn't the first person one might choose to face off against crowds of angry hookers. But after months of chaperoning controversial legislation that tightens the City's reigns on massage pa ... More >>

A Beautiful Risk

Tired of hiding the truth, she transitioned into a male sex worker. He’s been in a struggle with societal norms — and himself — ever since.

The Art of Sex Workers

Tired of hiding the truth, she transitioned into a male sex worker. He’s been in a struggle with societal norms — and himself — ever since.

Ride the Lighting

Tired of hiding the truth, she transitioned into a male sex worker. He’s been in a struggle with societal norms — and himself — ever since.

Craig Newmark speaks at victim's memorial in wake of Craigslist killings

Tired of hiding the truth, she transitioned into a male sex worker. He’s been in a struggle with societal norms — and himself — ever since.

Craig Newmark speaks at victim's memorial in wake of Craigslist killings

Tired of hiding the truth, she transitioned into a male sex worker. He’s been in a struggle with societal norms — and himself — ever since.

Om Face

Tired of hiding the truth, she transitioned into a male sex worker. He’s been in a struggle with societal norms — and himself — ever since.

Rated X

Tired of hiding the truth, she transitioned into a male sex worker. He’s been in a struggle with societal norms — and himself — ever since.

A Twisted Tale

A well-known erotic performer is now an international fugitive. A look into who’s getting caught up in the identity theft crackdown.

Last Resort

Middle-aged sex tourists fail to get their groove back

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, April 19, 2006

Too Sexy for Their Social Services

Week of Wednesday, April 19, 2006

Radio Free Nepal

An S.F. organization is providing radios and radio programming that just may save lives a world away

Love Among the Tombstones

A collection of cutting-edge films, including one on S.F.'s cemeteries

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, September 15, 2004

Lap Victory

How a DA's decision to drop prostitution charges against lap dancers will change the sexual culture of S.F. -- and, perhaps, the country

Sex Goddesses?

Reagan Louie's secret world

Mixing Business With Pleasure

Catch the Sex Worker Film and Video Festival before Ashcroft outlaws fun

True Professions

What do you call whores who don't have sex and porn stars who don't get paid?

Sex, Work, and Videotape

Hookers, dancers, and porn stars on parade at the Sex Worker Film and Video Festival

Savage Love

Hookers, dancers, and porn stars on parade at the Sex Worker Film and Video Festival

Savage Love

Hookers, dancers, and porn stars on parade at the Sex Worker Film and Video Festival

Hallinan's Right Cross

The narrow bandwidth of San Francisco politics makes most elections a contest between liberals. The DA's race, which pitted prosecutor Bill Fazio against centrist Arlo Smith and progressive Terence Hallinan, promised to change all that. But when Fazio zig