RealStars guestblogger Robert Schenck reviews the bok Prostitution Narratives, stories of the survival in the sex trade, where the reader gets to share in the valuable stories and experiences of the survivors of prostitution Author: Caroline Norma and Melinda Tankard Reist, editors Publisher: Spinifex Press, North Melbourne, Australia, 2016 Book review by Robert Schenck “…there… Read more »
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Huge commitments that eliminate harmful attitudes
The EU Anti-Trafficking Day, October 18th, was a great opportunity to highlight and raisepublic awareness about sex trafficking and the purchasing of sex. This year’s campaign included 35 partners who collaborated to reach a new audience with the message about Fair Sex. At the Clarion Hotel Stockholm, one of our partners in ‘Hotels Against Trafficking’,… Read more »
The behaviours of Swedish purchasers of commercial sex acts outlined
Approximately 80 % of the commercial sex acts by Swedish men occurs in foreign countries. An undercover-report from the network Schyst Resande which include RealStars has revealed the behaviours and attitudes of the purchasers of commercial sex acts. The report also states how ordinary tourism is a contributing factor in normalisation of the commercial sex… Read more »
The EU anti-trafficking day will raise awareness of today’s slavery
Today, October 18th it is the EU’s anti-trafficking-day, a day when we give extra attention to the extensive human trafficking that is happening today, right now, and yesterday as well as tomorrow. Selling or buying human beings, slavery, is something that most people would relate to colonialism, something that happened a long time ago. That… Read more »
Students want Fair Sex to be a matter of course in society.
At the end of September Södra Latins High School organised themed study days for students from the Social Studies and Introductory Language programmes. The theme of the study days was the terms on which we have sex. As well as deepening understanding of Fair Sex – and its opposite, trafficking and prostitution – the activity… Read more »
Realstars Exchange knowledge and Inspiration in The United States of America on An Anti-Sex Trafficking Conference
Realstars regularly visits Brussel and other countries to talk about fair-sex and promote the Swedish sex-buying law. In September, we visited Chicago and took the opportunity to go to an important conference the 15:th International Human Trafficking & Social Justice Conference at The Toledo university. Under the latest couple of years, Illinois is the only… Read more »
Digital Brothels – USA in the forefront against digital trafficking
During the spring of 2018, RealStars in cooperation with the magazine “Faktum” brought to light the concept of digital brothels through a seminary and a published report. They are escort sites that exist on an international level and function as a platform to sell ads for sexual services, virtually without risk, making the venture highly… Read more »
A verdict to defend women’s rights
In July, the court of appeal announced a verdict that entrained a strong standpoint for women’s rights. In the lawsuit, a woman had been awoken in the middle of the night by her boyfriend raping her when they were in a cabin out in the woods. When she woke up she was terrified and did… Read more »
Fair Sex Project to Create Better Unity
At the Södra Latins High School both teachers and pupils are in full gear with their work concerning Fair Sex, and it’s soon time for the students in the programmes of Social Science and Introductory Linguistics to have days with the theme of sex on equal terms. Together with others, RealStars will be participating in… Read more »
Will Spain join the Nordic model?
Sweden adopted the legislation for purchasing commercial sex that criminalises buying sex in 1999. Several countries have joined after that; France, Canada, Iceland, Northern Ireland and Norway that took it a step further by criminalising buying sex outside of Norwegian borders as well. Now the debate has come to Spain where it is a controversial… Read more »