Sex Work

I missed Maggie McNeill's last Friday the 13th roundup, and it was the only one this year, but there's something I want to get off my chest about a type of argument that really annoys me, and I figure she won't mind.The problem, as it so often is for us libertarians, is the lack of respect for freedom of choice. Here's the recent Twitter exchange that triggered this post, … [Read more...] about Why Should Miss Lorelei Rivers Give a Shit What Other People Want?

A few weeks ago people were talking about a new study by Melissa Farley that purports to find correlations in men between the purchase of sexual services and aggression towards women. Sex buyers were more likely than men who did not buy sex to report sexual aggression and likelihood to rape. Men who bought sex scored higher on measures of impersonal sex and hostile masculinity … [Read more...] about Does It Matter If Prostitution Clients are More Aggressive?

This is my third and final post discussing the recently publicized ProstCost study by Le Mouvement du Nid that claims prostitution costs France 1.6 billion euros per year. In Part 1 I pointed out that the study needed to balance the costs of prostitution against the benefits. In Part2 I reviewed the costs described in the study and argued that many of them weren't relevant to … [Read more...] about ProstCost – Part 3 of 3: The Meaning Of It All

This is my second post discussing the recently publicized ProstCost study by Le Mouvement du Nid which claims prostitution costs France 1.6 billion euros per year. In Part 1 I discussed the key missing figure from the study: The economic benefits of prostitution. I also listed some important caveats which apply to this post as well.Now I'd like to discuss the costs described … [Read more...] about ProstCost – Part 2 of 3: Counting the Cost