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It always has been. Before Prohibition, women weren’t even allowed inside bars, and as recently as 1948, the United States Supreme Court ruled to uphold a Michigan law that prohibited women from tending bar in cities of 50,000 or more, unless their husband or father owned the establishment. It wasn’t overturned until 1976. Patricia Shaterian-Rossi, who has owned Oakland’s Fat Lady for 29 years — and worked there previously when her parents owned it — remembers a time when women were scarcely allowed to come into bars unescorted, and when those who did were looked down upon for drinking beer from a bottle, ordering hard liquor, or swearing. “Were there female bar owners when I started out? There were hardly any female bartenders,” she recalled. “There was a time when if a woman owned [a bar] it could be construed as being something else” — meaning a brothel. “So things have evolved quite a bit.” Even so, Maria said, “This is just one of those industries that has been dominated by males since the dawn of time.”
Police: Belmont hotel robbery may have prostitution connection
Posted: 10/24/2011 07:26:26 PM PDT
Updated: 10/24/2011 07:26:29 PM PDT
A businessman from the East Coast was robbed Monday morning in his Belmont hotel room, but several circumstances of the crime, including possible gunfire, remain under investigation, police said.
Officers went to the Motel 6 at 1101 Shoreway Road around 8:45 a.m. after getting reports that a guest had been robbed. The businessman said he was punched in the face several times by a robber who stole a laptop computer and a camera.
However, at the time of the robbery, the victim had been in his room with a woman with an unclear connection to him. Belmont police Capt. Dan De Smidt said investigators are looking into whether the woman was a prostitute and added the man has not provided a complete explanation of her presence.
Fighting Back group’s meeting Wednesday to focus on prostitution, apartment crime in Vallejo
Times-Herald staff report/
Posted: 10/24/2011 01:00:35 AM PDT
Fighting Back Partnership’s quarterly meeting of citywide neighborhood watch groups will focus on apartment crime and prostitution.
The meeting is scheduled for 6 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the John F. Kennedy Library’s Joseph Room, 505 Santa Clara St., Vallejo.
Guest speaker Vallejo Housing and Development Director Melinda Nestlerode will discuss the city’s Crime-Free Multi-Housing Complex Program.
Watch block captains also will share success stories relating to the Neighborhood Anti-Prostitution Patrol.
The meeting is free and open to the public.
For more information online, visit www.fight-back.org, or Vallejo’s neighborhood watch website, www.vallejolamplighter.org.
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The ads, sponsored by St. James Infirmary, show a series of people posing for tasteful, clothed portraits, with text that reads “Some of us are sex workers. Some of us provide health care to sex workers. Some of us are family members of sex workers. Someone you know is a sex worker.”
St. James Infirmary on Mission Street is a health care clinic for sex workers and their families. It was founded in 1999 by a prostitutes’ rights activist and now serves about 500 patients each year. Its services include HIV testing, needle exchanges, counseling, food and clothing, according to its website.
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The clinic originally wanted the ads up on billboards, but the billboard companies rejected them because the term “sex worker” wasn’t family friendly and didn’t meet community standards.
See the full article from “NBC Bay Area”
Rejected by billboards, sex worker ad campaign now on San Francisco buses
Posted: 10/24/2011 11:32:51 AM PDT
Updated: 10/24/2011 11:32:53 AM PDT
SAN FRANCISCO — A sex workers ad campaign that was rejected by two billboard companies has made it on to San Francisco Muni buses, KGO is reporting.
The Saint James Infirmary, a clinic in San Francisco that is run by and for sex workers and their families, is sponsoring the campaign.
The ads feature photos, along with health care providers. The campaign’s motto is “Someone you know is a sex worker.”
The original idea was to have a billboard ad campaign throughout San Francisco, but the ads were rejected by because the words “sex work” and “sex worker” are not considered “family friendly,” according to St. James’ website.
The goal is to humanize the industry, according St. James. The ads will run on 50 Muni buses through mid-November.
CBS Outdoor and Clear Channel rejected some billboard ads from San Francisco’s St. James Infirmary, a clinic run by and for sex workers and their families. The work shows men and women of various ages and ethnicities along with the tagline, “Someone you know is a sex worker.” Those last two words tripped up CBS, which told the clinic in an email that “sex worker” is “not a family-friendly term,” but that it might reconsider the ads if different language were used. What did they have in mind? I doubt “prostitute,” “porn performer,” or “phone-sex pro” would’ve passed muster either. The ads will now run, unchanged, on 50 Muni buses in the San Francisco area. They seem pretty tame. The really shocking stuff takes place in the seats way in the back. More posters after the jump.
See the full article from “Adweek”
Alleged pimp re-arrested in Vallejo after posting bail
Times-Herald staff report/
Posted: 10/24/2011 01:00:30 AM PDT
A Vallejo man out on bail after an arrest Friday night was arrested again Saturday, police said.
The Vallejo police Crime Suppression Unit served a search warrant at about 7:40 p.m. at 512 Miller St. when they found 49-year old Tayvon Khalen in the residence.
Khalen was released on bail after his arrest at 6:30 p.m. Friday for suspicion of pimping and pandering women, including a minor, as well as being in possession of narcotics and a loaded firearm.
On Saturday, he was arrested for allegedly maintaining a “house of ill-fame,” which means a prostitution house, and obstructing officers.
Police did not release details of the search warrant or what was discovered after it was executed.
The ads feature cheery photographs of local sex workers (from the shoulders up), their family members and health care providers, images that include a woman in a fur coat, a man with a dog and a couple touching heads. The tagline “Someone you know is a sex worker” accompanies the images.
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The clinic could have gone with a viral campaign after the ads were rejected, but the campaign is meant to legitimize the work the clinic does, in addition to advertising its services. The opposition to the ads might be more understandable if they were advocating for decriminalizing prostitution, a proposal which was voted down in San Francisco several years ago. However, all the ads say is that the people who perform these jobs aren’t anonymous, and they deserve to be safe and healthy. Naomi Akers, who is both the clinic’s executive director and a former sex worker, says, “This is about humanizing us … We’re not just the stereotype of sexual deviant. We’re everyday people.”
See the full article from “Jezebel”
Vallejo man arrested for pimping
Times-Herald staff report/
Posted: 10/23/2011 01:00:59 AM PDT
A Vallejo man was arrested Friday night on suspicion of pimping women, including a minor, police said.
The police department’s Crime Suppression Unit was conducting an undercover operation at about 6:30 p.m. in the 4300 block of Sonoma Boulevard, when they approached 49-year old Tayvon Khalen.
During the investigation, detectives discovered that Khalen was “actively engaging in pimping and pandering” a 21-year-old woman and a 16-year old girl for prostitution, police said.
He was also found to have posted advertising on MyRedBook.com, an escort site, and was maintaining a prostitution network in Vallejo and the Bay Area, police said.
Police also found a loaded firearm and rock cocaine on Khalen. He was arrested and booked into Solano County jail.
The ads feature cheery photographs of local sex workers (from the shoulders up), their family members and health care providers, images that include a woman in a fur coat, a man with a dog and a couple touching heads. The tagline “Someone you know is a sex worker” accompanies the images.
“This is about humanizing us,” said Naomi Akers, the clinic’s executive director and a former sex worker who is one of 27 people photographed for the campaign. “We’re not just the stereotype of sexual deviant. We’re everyday people.”
The St. James Infirmary turned to Muni after two major advertising firms, CBS Outdoor and Clear Channel Outdoor, rejected the ads for billboard placement earlier this year.
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The term sex work encompasses a wide variety of activities, including prostitution, escort services, phone sex, Internet webcam sex, erotic dancing and pornography.
