Long After

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Take THAT Craigslist

In your face Craigslist, in your face! Craigslist has decided to remove the “erotic services” section of its website until they can replace it with a more adequately monitored category, “adult services.” This decision was apparently reached due to the recent murder of masseuse Julissa Brisman by Philip Markoff, a 22 year old medical student [...]

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Fistula, Childbirth and GBV

Last year I saw A Walk to Beautiful, a gorgeous documentary about the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital, and the women in Ethiopia who travel for days to reach it. The Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital was founded in 1974 by obstetrician-gynecologist, Drs. Catherine Hamlin, and her late husband, Reginald. The pair restored the lives of over [...]

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Craig (and his List) Can Eat My C#@T, But Please Don’t Sell It

How Craigslist is enabling trafficking in women and girls. Tonight, I watched MSNBC’s “Sex Slaves in the Suburbs.”  I was trying to distract myself from drafting a research proposal on Women’s Sexuality and the Internet. Normally, I ignore the schmaltzy US media and their sensational headlines. But this one got me. Not that I am [...]

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