Prostitution

Breaking Free (Vednita Carter's organization on prostitution) – serving women and girls involved in prostitution and other battered women who have been involved in the criminal justice system, St. Paul, MN.

Helping Individual Prostitutes Survive – the mission is to assist female, male, and transgendered individuals engaging in sex work in Washington, DC in leading healthy lives. Using a harm reduction model, HIPS’ programs strive to address the impact that HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted infections, discrimination, poverty, violence and drug use have on the lives of individuals engaging in sex work, Washington, DC.

Freedom and Justice Center for Prostitution Resources – conducts research and develops models and materials aimed at improving public policy and the law, the legal system and the legal profession in matters related to prostitution and other areas of the sex industry. Recognizing prositution as inherently violent, we do not support the decriminalization, regulation or legalization of prositution. As part of our comprehensive approach against prostitution, the Freedom and Justice Center works to increase the knowledge and skills of non-legal professionals and community members responding to prostitution to increase the quantity and quality of services available to prostituted women, Minneapolis, MN.

La Coalición Contra el Tráfico de Mujeres, Caracas, VE.

Lola Greene Baldwin Foundation – the mission of the Baldwin Foundation is three-fold: to help people escape the life of prostitution, survive, and recover from its long-term effects; to provide education about the effects of the sex industry on those used in it, and its effects on the larger community; and to educate actual and potential users of prostituted persons about the meaning and consequences of their behavior, Portland, OR.

Prostitution Research & Education (PRE) – organizing against the institution of prostitution and advocate for alternatives to prostitution - including emotional and physical healthcare for women in prostitution. A purpose of PRE is to reflect the voices of one of the world's most disenfranchised groups: prostituted women and children. The project's goal is to empower this constituency by documenting their perspectives through research, public education, and arts projects, San Francisco, CA.

Sex Industry Survivors Anonymous – a worldwide, non-profit 12 step group of men and women who are either currently in some area of the sex industry, and are trying to quit, or who have already quit but are tying to find recovery. They meet (whether that be in person, online, through the mail, or over the telephone) to share their experience, hope and strength. They operate a toll-free, nationwide hotline: 888-702-7273.

Sex Trade Opportunities for Risk Minimization (STORM), a unit of Project Prosper, to provide direct services and education to individuals and communities impacted by the sex trade, utilizing the Harm Reduction Model, Greensboro, NC.


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