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Every year, Berlin transforms into the capital of erotic innovation, pleasure-tech, and adult entertainment — and 2025 is no exception. As Europe’s largest and most influential erotic trade fair, VENUS Berlin 2025 is

In the last several weeks, the murder of George Floyd has sparked protests across the world which are already changing the landscape of America. In a moment which Angela Davis described as holding

In a moment marked by a failure of safety nets, social unrest, and public reactions to pervasive and escalating state violence, June 2 will mark International Whores Day (IWD), which began when sex workers took a stand against police violence to demand better.

After the initial calls for everyone to just hop on the internet when in-person work became significantly riskier, outlets are finally showing that, much like every other areas of sex work, it's not as easy as everyone thinks. Vice looked at how expensive it actually is.

Sex workers are being vocal and demanding they not be ignored, like this California-based Sex Worker Town Hall held to talk about impact and needs, and is leading to a call on CA Gov. Newsome to address direct asks, including financial support to trans-led organizations.

Amidst the crisis, a lot of sex workers have been forced to change the medium of their work, trying to shift to working remotely alongside everyone else. While some have been able to sustain their work, others are finding that significant barriers exist to making a full living virtually.

Last Monday, the sex worker community saw one of our great organizers and true mamas of the movement when Lorena Borjas lost her battle with COVID-19. On Monday night roughly 240 people gathered on a Zoom call to share stories of her generosity and fierceness.

Louisiana – thanks to the incredible work of Women with a Vision – has become the third jurisdiction to introduce decriminalization legislation in the United States with HB 366.

In the still-cold months of every year, as state legislatures start to stir again, many lawmakers across the country are about to pop their heads out into the air, look around to see if we'll have 3 more months of whorephobia. Fort Wayne decides swingers clubs and strip clubs are crucial problem.

In 1980 the Rhode Island General Assembly changed prostitution laws in an attempt to make them more specific. In the process, they created a legislative loophole that lasted almost 30 years outlawing street prostitution but essentially making indoor prostitution legal.

Last week, a stunning report was released pointing to new polling data that 52% of voters support decriminalization of both buyers and sellers of sexual services. The issue now is garnering support akin to other progressive topics such as Medicare for All and the Green New Deal.

Mayo Pete provides more evidence that he's not going to be on the cutting edge of support for sex workers when he cancels a fundraiser at a gay nightclub in Providence, RI after finding out the club had a pole.

For the last ten years, January has been declared "Human Trafficking Awareness Month." To try and crack into news cycles dedicated to this – which are regularly dominated by police press releases and bizarre community art events – the website Open Democracy is doing a series of pieces...

For Sex Workers, (who are often highly criminalized) facial recognition could have detrimental and devastating effects to our abilities to make a living and provide for ourselves and our families. In many ways, we are already having to make a lot of these decisions around privacy and safety.

This last year has been nothing short of a sea change in sex workers' rights in the United States. The decades of building community, and developing our shared language and framework has foregrounded an unprecedented level of attention on the subject of sex workers' lives.

On December 17, some members of Congress marked the day with a landmark bill, asking the Department of Health and Human Services to look into the impact of sex workers' health and safety when they lose access to online platform.

This week marks the 16th annual International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers, and communities across the globe are taking Tuesday to honor those we have lost this year, and highlight the ways that sex workers are vulnerable to violence...

In the biggest sex work news of the last two weeks, Rep. Ayanna Pressley called for full decriminalization of sex work in a resolution titled, The People's Justice Guarantee. Resolutions are pieces of non-binding legislation which express a sentiment on an issue. This resolution also calls for...

On Friday, sex workers came together to present Hacking/Hustling, a day-long conference that explored tech, trafficking, SESTA/FOSTA and social change and it's worth spending as long as it takes to go through what was shared...

The largest story from the last two weeks was the DC City Council's hearing on decriminalization of the sex trade after years of work from the Sex Workers Action Coalition. But the day became a who’s who of anti-sex work groups sharing misinformation and fear mongering.

On October 10, nine of the presidential candidates participated in a town hall focused on LGBTQ+ issues, hosted by LGBTQ organization Human Rights Campaign. Sanders fumbled (yet again) Klobuchar stayed her course, and Warren gently opened a door to decriminalization conversation.

Sex Workers Have Their Own Heroes: Only adding to the canon of amazing sex worker representations which we've seen this year, Tina Horn and DC Comics released "SFSX," a comic book featuring a freedom-fighting sex worker.