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How a War on Porn Is Endangering US Sex Workers

Hallie Lieberman / Open Democracy Jan 13, 2023 A proposed ‘anti-trafficking’ US law may actually increase trafficking, as well as threatening sex workers and free speech. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

Andrea Dworkin: Teller of Hard Truths

Janice G. Raymond and H. Patricia Hynes Jul 17, 2019 A new book offers an opportunity to revisit the writer's maligned but searing insights into the impact of pornography on women. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

Michael Avenatti Charged With Defrauding Stormy Daniels

JIM MUSTIAN and LARRY NEUMEISTER / The Associated Press May 22, 2019 The lawyer is accused of stealing book deal money from his ex-client amid legal battles with President Trump; he denies the allegations. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Growing Number of States Call Porn a Public Health Crisis

LINDSAY WHITEHURST and JONATHAN J. COOPER / The Associated Press May 10, 2019 Republican officials say it's a plague on society, but health experts warn that these labels can go too far and carry their own risks. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

The Trickster King and the Erudite Literalist

Allen Barra / Truthdig Apr 20, 2019 Approaching Vladimir Nabokov’s 120th birthday, Truthdig looks at his friendship and falling-out with another literary giant, Edmund Wilson. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

How Women Learn to Hate Their Vulva

Rebecca Gordon / TomDispatch Mar 9, 2019 It makes me sad that, after all this time, women in this country seem to have made so little progress toward loving our bodies, ourselves. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

Trump Is Telling Racists Exactly What They Want to Hear About the Border

Greg Grandin / TomDispatch Mar 6, 2019 According to the president, the U.S. needs a protective wall to prevent sex traffickers from driving bound women into the country. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

When Doing Good Becomes Doing Bad

Janice G. Raymond / Truthdig Jul 11, 2018 Sexual abuse by members of organizations that provide relief to some of the world’s most vulnerable people has been more pervasive than recently reported. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

The Trouble With Nondisclosure Agreements

Paul Morantz / Truthdig Apr 25, 2018 Saving time and money doesn't always serve the cause of justice. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

The Selling of Subordination: How the Female Body Is Reduced to Products

Julie Bindel / Truthdig Sep 16, 2016 Welcome to the marketplace built on women’s oppression, disposability, desperation and despair. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

A Conversation With Robert Scheer: Larry Flynt Is With Hillary Clinton (Multimedia)

Eric Ortiz / Truthdig Apr 9, 2016 Love him or hate him, the Hustler publisher has never compromised his beliefs He shared them -- including why he wants the former secretary of state to be president -- during a visit to Truthdig Editor in Chief Robert Scheer's communications class at the University of Southern California He shared them—including why he wants the former secretary of state to be president—during a visit to Truthdig Editor in Chief Robert Scheer's communications class at the University of Southern California. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Paid For

By Gail Dines Sep 18, 2015 Rachel Moran, who spent seven years as a prostituted woman, explains in a book that is both excruciating memoir and brilliant political analysis, the real price that prostitution extracts from women turned into commodities under patriarchal capitalism. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )