U.K. lawyer, activist and cultural commentator Charlotte Proudman penned an opinion piece for The Independent newspaper today, urging fellow radical feminists to disavow transphobia and instead renew the campaign against “pornography,” following the lead of SWERF icons Catharine MacKinnon and Andrea Dworkin.
The European Sex Worker Alliance (ESWA) is circulating a petition in solidarity with Swedish sex worker activists fighting a politically motivated attempt to require mandatory jail time for their clients.
Amidst a relentless U.K. media campaign demonizing sex work, the Edinburgh Council voted today to impose a “nil cap” on all sexual entertainment venues in the Scottish city, effectively banning all strip clubs.
One of Spain's oldest and most prestigious universities, the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, has cancelled an academic seminar on porn studies under pressure from sex work abolitionist groups and SWERFs objecting to the image used to advertise it to students.
Top conservative magazine National Review published a column on Friday praising the work of the late Sex Worker Exclusionary Feminist (SWERF) icon Andrea Dworkin, and endorsing the view that porn should be seen “as decadent and exploitative,” and something that “enslaves men and women to their basest appetites.”