What happens when your community is no longer welcome on the internet? For Australian sex workers, that's been the reality for almost one year. The Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA) made online platforms like Facebook and Google liable for any content that advertised sex work, even consensual work.

I've always had trouble reading social cues, but in the strip club, where rules and roles are crystal clear, I finally learned to connect. By Reese Piper.

Sex Workers Rally for Reform. By Molly Crabapple.

In the years I worked at a sex shop, I saw how the pressure to have great sex — in a world that will never be a level playing field — can inflict its own kind of damage. By Fancy Feast.

This bill was supposed to fight sex trafficking. But it's driving women back to a riskier, pre-internet world of sex work. By Emily McCombs.

The first conjugal visits in America took place in 1904 at Parchman Penitentiary, an institution that resembled a slavery-era plantation more than a prison. By Alex Mayyasi.

Nominated Senator Millicent Omanga has criticised members of Nairobi County Assembly over plans to pass a motion outlawing commercial sex work. The senator termed the move impulsive and unfair to the ‘poor’ commercial sex workers whom she said depend on the trade for survival. The senator has now challenged the MCAs to provide alternative sources of livelihood for the commercial sex workers before condemning them.

Arctic Monkeys

A businessman – and Gadhafi associate – who was convicted in a 2007 prostitution ring bust reveals all the dirty secrets of how models (and even some Hollywood actresses) swarm the hotels and yacht parties during the fest: says one escort, it’s “the biggest payday of the year.” By Dana Kennedy. (May 17, 2013)

In Portland, Oregon, a vegan strip club [Casa Diablo] and the steak house-slash-strip club next door [The Acropolis] are locked in an intense rivalry. By Natalie O’Neill.

The Liberal Democrats are likely to adopt as official policy a move to quash all historical sex-work convictions – including brothel-keeping, soliciting business and kerb-crawling. The move to wipe convictions from people’s records will be included in a key motion at Lib Dem spring conference as part of the party’s wider drive to decriminalise sex work, while strengthening laws against “non-consensual” activity.

For girls and women from the Perna caste, entering the sex trade is a normal next step after marriage and childbirth. By Maya Prabhu.

The sex classifieds site generated millions — and also made its owners targets of law enforcement. A criminal case will decide their fate. By Kate Knibbs.

Under the Trump administration, I could stand to lose my healthcare, my livelihood, and even my life. By Hennessy Williams.

Craigslist foot fetishists and porn shoots that put your first day work jitters to shame. By Graham Isador.