Trafficking and Prostitution Services

Where do they get their funding?  Why do they exist?  What do they get out of this work? Sex Workers Anonymous is a 12 step group.  Meaning based on the model of AA and NA.  What this means essentially is Bill Wilson was suffering with a craving to drink at 8 months sobriety.  So he set out to find someone else to "12 step" which was Dr. Bob.  This created Alcoholics Anonymous - reaching out to help another.  12 step groups are not federally funded by grants, nor by private fund raisers, crowdfunding, nor even private donations.  Our funding is only and solely by the sales of our literature, or money passed from the basket.  Now since prostitution is illegal, and receiving money from the "earnings a prostitute" is a felony - we don't pass a basket at our meetings.  This limits our income quite severely.  But why do we reach out to help others?  Because that's how we stay out - pure and simple.  I have been reaching out to help others, who want that help, a

You need to be aware of what's going on with Maxine Doogan considering not only that she's a convicted pimp, considering she's also suing the state of California to decriminalize prostitution, but also because of her activities which are increasing in extremity. Maxine Doogan falsely took responsibility for the cancellation of the so called "reality" show "8 Minutes".  The show was canceled four hours after I served all parties with a notice that I was going to sue them for "fraud and defamation".  The notice of my "intent to sue" was posted on the A&E comments website.  The only way to remove the comment and the link to this letter about the impending lawsuit was to remove the whole website.  The whole website was removed before the announcement went out the show was being canceled.   Yet Maxine Doogan took her connections with the media to have "WhoreNation" take credit for the show being canceled because of he

Phyllis http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/contact.php  - I wanted to write you to thank you once again for the article you wrote about year ages ago.  Honestly, I wanted to apologize also.  I hesitated at first to do the interview at the time you contacted me because frankly I felt like not that many potential members might see the piece. I've always tried to limit our media and outreach work to sources where I thought we would reach potential members - not to become a Samoly Mam figure.  But my "gut" told me to move forward with the interview any way and now years later I've become even more grateful on a whole other level. I haven't really kept you updated - but the trafficking movement i started back in 1984 was "hijacked" not just in my opinion, but also the opinion of the author of the Trafficking Act of 2000 Michael Horowitz.  It got hijacked in 2004 by the faith based community if you read the revisions of the TVRA of 2004 is when all the problems s

I challenge anyone to find anything negative printed about www.sexworkersanonymous.com by an actual member of this program anywhere online, or in the media PRIOR to April of 2015.  That is when we first saw the "triple threat" of Domina Elle, Maxine Doogan, and Bella Robinson, combine forces to start a campaign to raise money for a woman going by the fake name of "Kamylla" who supposedly had appeared on the so called reality series "8 Minutes".  This was a woman who supposedly wanted to quit the sex industry who had asked the producers of a show that was asking her to pretend to be rescued from sex work to supposedly actually help her in reality.  I find it hard to believe that if she's being asked to act out an elaborate ruse for the public about a fake rescue outreach team that isn't real that she would actually expect to get any help from these same people to actually leave sex work in reality. I mean follow my logic - if I'm hired to pret

Has anyone else noticed that in his own way Bruce was trying to alert us to the problem of sex trafficking in his films?  I remember one movie where the women were being used like furniture as prostitutes, and the other where the women were being kept in cages that he freed.  Bruce Lee was such a pioneer!  Not only did he break all the rules by bringing the martial arts to the masses and not just the Chinese born, but he also taught us about health (he recovered from a broken back to fight again and was doing protein shakes before anyone else had even heard of such things), and lo and behold he was even trying to let us know about the reality that sex trafficking still existed in his day through his films.  Mind you when these films were coming out - sex trafficking was being viewed as as "urban myth" - something that had gone by the history wayside.

First of all, when I first heard  Dr.  Pinsky was going to be admitting sex workers into treatment on his show "Celebrity Rehab" I knew they were going to have difficulty in finding sobriety without addressing these specific issues. To my knowledge, no one on his staff, nor himself personally, have contacted us for information on how to work with sex workers effectively in finding sobriety, their unique challenges, bought any of our literature such as our "Recovery Guide" or training manual for professionals, nor have I been asked to provide any training to him or his staff as I have with other treatment centers across this country who were finding that sex workers achieving long lasting sobriety were having an almost 100 percent failure rate in achieving sobriety. Contrary to the popular mainstream male thinking - these issues are NOT "sex addiction" related and they do require contact with other ex-sex workers just as you would not even think of help

People who are new to this field don't understand why I insist there is a difference between "pimping" and "trafficking".  To follow along in audio -   https://youtu.be/SiKwNEOnCtc Take a look at a very famous pimp - Iceberg Slim.  If you want to know more about his life there's a book out he wrote called "Pimp". For a more modern version you might have seen on TV - look at  Bishop Don Juan.  This is a man who did try and leave being a pimp for a while.  In fact, he even founded a church that did outreach to pimps.   I did a Jerry Springer show with him in fact where he came on still dressing, acting, speaking, like a pimp.  I pulled him over backstage and told him "walk like a duck, quack like a duck and sooner or later you're going to sprout webbed feet" suggesting that if he didn't start changing everything about his life that he would return.  Which he did.  There was a splash on MTV where he announced he had gone back to