SF News Alleged Brothel Raided in South San Francisco Apartment Building, 65-Year-Old Woman Charged With Pimping A certain apartment complex in South San Francisco allegedly had a brothel operating out of one of the units, and a 65-year-old woman has been arrested and is being accused of serving as its madame.
SF News New Oakland PD Chief Vows Sex Work Crackdown; In SF, Mission Residents Sue City Over the Scene on Shotwell There’s pushback against the sex worker situation on both sides of the Bay, as the new Oakland Police chief is promising a coming crackdown on International Boulevard, while Shotwell Street residents have sued SF over sex work on that street.
SF News Prankster Adds Sex Workers to Slow Streets Signs on Shotwell A prankster has added some stickers to signs to better represent the range of activities that go on on Shotwell Street, which is a designated Slow Street with city-installed signage.
SF News Assault on Shotwell Street Caught on Video; Neighbors Complain of Violence Involving Sex Workers A broad daylight assault involving two female suspects and one female victim who may be unhoused has neighbors on Shotwell Street newly complaining about the rampant sex trade happening there.
SF News Capp Street Barriers to Be Made Permanent, Because Apparently They’re Working to Deter Street-Level Sex Trade The seemingly flimsy street barriers on Capp Street have done well enough at preventing late-night chaos on the street that they’ll be made permanent, though a different design will be utilized.
SF News The SFPD Brags About Busting Johns Seeking Sex Workers on Capp Street Undercover SFPD officers have recently been posing as sex workers and they say they've busted 30 "johns" in a pointless exercise on Capp Street, in an ongoing effort to crack down on solicitation on that Mission District alley.
SF News Capp Street Gets Bigger New Concrete Barricades, Firefighters Union Sounds Off Angrily On Twitter A new set of heavier and more immovable concrete barriers went up to deter the sex work trade on Capp Street this weekend, but the local firefighters union took to Twitter to decry what they see as a public safety risk.
SF Politics Supervisor Hillary Ronen Introduces Legislation To Legalize Sex Work As the sex worker controversy roils Capp Street, the district’s supervisor Hillary Ronen has unveiled legislation hoping to legalize sex work, though it really just asks the state legislature to do it.
SF News City Hall, SFPD Unveil Plans To Barricade Capp Street In Supposed Sex Work Crackdown We’re now getting some specifics on the so-called crackdown coming to the Capp Street sex work trade, with an SFMTA map of the barriers that Supervisor Ronen’s office tells us will be “up by Friday,” and SFPD teasing some enforcement details.
SF News Capp Street Will Be Barricaded Off Over Concerns There’s Too Many Sex Workers Strolling A long-running concern over the world’s oldest profession has Capp Street residents saying their street is “a sanctioned red-light district,” and apparently street barriers will be going up on a four-block stretch of Capp.
SF News SF Activist Carol Leigh, the ‘Scarlot Harlot’ Who Coined the Term ‘Sex Work,’ Has Died One of the preeminent Bay Area sex work activists for nearly 50 years and the originator of the term “sex work” Carol Leigh, a.k.a. Scarlot Harlot, died of cancer Wednesday.
SF News SF’s Trailblazing Sex Worker Activist Margo St. James Has Died A sex work advocate before they called it “sex work,” Margo St. James was the namesake of the St. James Infirmary and founded the old Hooker’s Ball. She also spearheaded a movement to legalize prostitution, and very nearly won a seat on the SF Board of Supervisors in 1996.
SF News Appeal To Decriminalize Sex Work In California Moves To Court The Erotic Service Provider Legal, Educational, and Research Project filed a federal lawsuit back in 2015, challenging a 145-year-old California law that makes sex work illegal. On Thursday, attorney Louis Serkin, representing the
SF News San Francisco Sues To Shut Alleged Richmond District Brothel Down An Outer Richmond "Health Center" that officials say is a front for the sex trade will have to face those allegations in court, after the San Francisco City Attorney's Office filed a suit
SF News Mission Residents Worried Over Sex Workers At Jose Coronado Playground As Jose Coronado Playground continues to see improvements in signage, landscaping, and playground equipment, it's still being met with issues regarding the sex workers and pimps who often work in the area. SF
SF News Gay Sex Worker Attacked By 'Clients' Last Week In SF Blames Alt-Right Rally Gay sex worker and sometimes porn performer Jessie Colter opened up on social media over the weekend about an assault he was the victim of in a San Francisco hotel room by two
SF News Oakland Man Busted For Allegedly Running Brothel In Airbnb A crackdown on hourly rentals in Tennessee hotels has apparently sent sex workers into area Airbnbs, with one Oakland man allegedly traveling south to cash in on the brave new brothel world. ABC
SF News Negotiation With Sex Worker Turns Into Knifepoint Robbery A man seeking to purchase sexual services from a woman got more than he bargained for Thursday afternoon, when a third party interrupted their transaction and robbed the aspiring customer at knifepoint. It
SF News East Bay Man Arrested On Suspicion Of Sex Trafficking After Luring Women To Fake Fitness/Modeling Agency One glance at the website for Mad Girls Fitness, still online at the time of this publication, and you might be able to tell that something is wrong. Amidst general nonsense and images
Arts & Entertainment Report: At Least 194 SF State Students Seeking Paid 'Relationships' With Sugar Daddies Citing San Francisco's high cost of living and the increasing cost of tuition, the spokesperson for a website that seeks to connect millennials with wealthy people "willing to pay for 'arrangements'" says that
SF News Local Sex Workers Stoked About Abundance Of Airbnbs Airbnb's impact on a city is proving a divisive issue around the globe — does the company contribute to the housing crisis by taking units off the market, or does it allow for part-time
SF News Berkeley Students Whoring Themselves on Sugar Daddy Site to Pay Tuition An "increasing number" of Berkeley students are earning thousands of dollars a month through the website SeekingArrangement.com, which is a "dating" site for sugar daddies and their "sugar babies" seeking "mutually beneficial
SF News Sorry, Everybody: Carrying Three Or More Condoms Still Makes You a Prostitute Dudes and ladies, straight or gay — If you go out this weekend with three or more condoms in your pocket or purse, there's a chance the San Francisco Police could keep you locked
Arts & Entertainment Things That Should Horrify You: A 10-Year-Old's Stripping Schedule We tend to ignore Kickstarter-related missives as a general rule, but local filmmaker Hima B.'s recent email regarding funding for her new documentary took us by surprise. She features an actual fantasy
SF News Polk Street Residents Angry Polk Street Is A Lot Like Polk Street Polk Street corridor residents are fuming/titillated over an increase in prostitution affecting the notoriously gritty neighborhood as of late. CBS 5's Joe Vazquez has a great story on a new wave of
