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From the Panel
For: Melissa Farley
- Human Trafficking and Prostitution
Melissa Farley - “Bad for the Body, Bad for the Heart”: Prostitution Harms Women Even if Legalized or Decriminalized
Melissa Farley October, 2004 - Prostitution: Factsheet on Human Rights Violations
Melissa Farley April 2, 2000 For: Catharine MacKinnon
- Prostitution and Civil Rights
Catharine A. MacKinnon 1993 For: Wendy Shalit
- Ladies, Please
Jennifer A. Marshall July 28, 2008 - Taste – Too Modest for TV: Girls Gone Mild? Not on ‘Dr. Phil’
Wendy Shalit December 21, 2007 - Taste: Clueless – Young Women are Rethinking the Sexual Revolution; Cindy & Co. Wonder Why
Wendy Shalit May 21, 1999 - Virtue’s Reward Author Wendy Shalit Says Women’s Lives Would Be Safer and Sexier if They Tried a Bit More Old-Fashioned Modesty
Interview by Jennifer Frey April 19, 1999 - Have You No Shame? Not On-line.
Wendy Shalit August 1, 1998 - Should Women Be More Modest?
Wendy Shalit, Cathy Young February 7, 1999 - Pornified and Female Chauvinist Pigs
Laura Kipnis, Meghan O’Rourke, Wendy Shalit September 22, 2005
Against: Sydney Biddle Barrows
- I Guess We’re Just Hooked
Cindy Adams June 17, 2008 - Spitzer Case Angers Mayflower Madam
Dennis B. Roddy March 11, 2008 - An American Success Story
Susan Kastner February 9, 1992 - Call Girls for the Rich
John Carman November 15, 1987 - ‘Mayflower Madam’ Finds a New Calling
Don O’Briant November 12, 1986 - Madam Sydney Barrows: Happy Hooking to Profitable Booking
Cheryl Lavin October 16, 1986 - Barrows on Business
Myra MacPherson September 12, 1986 - ‘Mayflower Madam’ Free After Paying $5,000 Fine
Margot Hornblower July 20, 1985 - A Biddle in a Muddle
Lisa Anderson May 3, 1985 Against: Tyler Cowen
- Legalization of Prostitution
Tyler Cowen March 13, 2008 Against: Lionel Tiger
- Who Needs Men?
Moderated by Colin Harrison; Panelists Barbara Ehrenreich and Lionel Tiger June, 1999
Articles For & Against
Arguments for Legalization and/or Decriminalization
- The Myth of a 'Victimless' Crime
Caille Millner March 24, 2008 - Do as He Said
Nicholas D. Kristof March 13, 2008 - Trading on America's Puritanical Streak
Martha Nussbaum March 14, 2008 - Legalize Prostitution; Paying for Sex is Common
Patty Kelly March 13, 2008 - Legalize Prostitution, For All Our Sakes
Alan Young January 19, 2007 - British Medical Journal Recommends Legalizing Prostitution
Derek Kravitz January 26, 2006 - Moral Crusade against Prostitution
Ronald Weitzer March/April 2006 - Public Health and the Human Rights of Sex Workers
Ivan Wolffers, Nel van Beelen June 7, 2003 - Prostitution, Humanism and a Woman's Choice
Kimberly Klinger January 1, 2003
Arguments against Legalization and/or Decriminalization
- Ten Reasons for Not Legalizing Prostitution and a Legal Response to the Demand for Prostitution.
Janice G. Raymond February, 2003 - Welfare-to-Work's New Thrust
Theodore Dalrymple February 3, 2005 - Legalization and Decriminalization of Prostitution Would Not Help Prostitutes
Angela N. White March 1, 2003 - Prostitution and Male Supremacy
Andrea Dworkin October 31, 1992
