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Subject: alt.sex.prostitution FAQ (3/4)
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 18:12:35 GMT
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***** Welcome to Alt.Sex.Prostitution! *****

Welcome to the alt.sex.prostitution Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ).

This is Part 3 of 4 parts.

Part 1:  General information about the newsgroup and the
         World Sex Guide.
Part 2:  Questions and information about prostitution
         in general.
Part 3:  List of organizations that support prostitution
         or prostitutes or are working to decriminalize
         prostitution.
Part 4:  Suggested reading list on prostitution and
         prostitutes' rights.


***** Organizations That Support Prostitution/Prostitutes
      Or Are Working To Decriminalize Prostitution

Please note that these organizations are NOT for referrals to sex
workers, especially in areas where prostitution is illegal.  Don't
waste your time and their's by asking.  Cops ask them all the time to
try to snag them for pandering.  They cannot respond to such requests.

These organizations' names, "snail mail" and e-mail addresses,
telephone and FAX numbers change frequently due to the illegality of
sex work in most countries and subsequent police harassment.  A
special thanks to Catherine La Croix of COYOTE/Seattle for supplying
this list.  Last updated 08/96.

Organizations such as COYOTE are political advocacy groups and are not
allowed 501(c)(3) non-profit tax status.  Catherine has personally
contributed about $20,000 of her own money to the cause.  Donations of
money or in-kind, e.g. printing, office equipment (copiers et. al.),
etc., to this or other organizations below are always appreciated and
helpful.


*UNITED STATES*

COYOTE/San Francisco (Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics)
2269 Chestnut Street, #452
San Francisco, California  94123
U.S.A.
Phone : [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]
Attn: Margo St. James or Carol Stewart

COYOTE/Los Angeles
1626 N. Wilcox Avenue, #580
Hollywood, California  90028
U.S.A.
Phone: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]
Attn: Norma Jean Almodovar, Executive Director

COYOTE/Seattle
16625 Redmond Way
Box M-237
Redmond, Washington  98052
U.S.A.
Phone-FAX-FAXBack: [phone]
Catherine La Croix, Executive Director ([e-mail])
Christine Du Bois, Public Relations Director ([e-mail])
COYOTE staff ([e-mail])
Worldwide Web:  http://www.coyotesea.org

     COYOTE (Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics) works for the rights
     of all sex workers: strippers, phone operators, prostitutes,
     porn stars, etc. of all genders and persuasions.  Supports
     programs to assist sex workers in their choice to change their
     occupation, works to prevent the scapegoating of sex workers
     for AIDS and other STDs, and to educate sex workers, their
     clients and the general public about safe sex.  Note: They do
     NOT provide sex worker referrals.  COYOTE is a member of the
     North American Task Force on Prostitution.

CAL-PEP (California Prostitutes Education Project)
630 20th Street
Suite 305
Oakland, California  94612
U.S.A.
Phone: [phone]

     Non-profit AIDS/HIV/drug user education and prevention
     organization, specializing in an effort to target isolated
     groups of women and youth who are at high risk for HIV
     disease.  Established in 1985 by ex-prostitutes and
     prostitutes' rights advocates, and maintaining a policy to
     employ and utilize community members.

North American Task Force on Prostitution (NTFP)
Post Office Box 2113
New York, New York  10025-2113
U.S.A.
Attn: Priscilla Alexander
Phone/FAX: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]

     The North American Task Force on Prostitution (NTFP) was
     founded in 1979, to act as an umbrella organization for
     prostitutes and prostitutes' rights organizations in
     different parts of the United States. In 1994, its scope
     was expanded to include organizations and individuals who
     support the rights of prostitutes and other sex workers.
     The NTFP is thus a network of sex workers, sex workers'
     rights organizations, and individuals and organizations
     that support the rights of sex workers to organize on their
     own behalf, work safely and without legal repression, travel
     without legal restrictions, have families and raise children,
     and enjoy the same rights, responsibilities, and privileges
     as other people. Affiliated organizations include:
     COYOTE-San Francisco, COYOTE-Los Angeles, HIRE-Atlanta,
     PONY-New York, SWAC-San Francisco, SWAT-Toronto, and
     Willing Women Workers-Minneapolis/St. Paul.

     The NTFP is affiliated with the International Committee for
     Prostitutes Rights (ICPR), based in the Netherlands, with a
     growing number of affiliated organizations in Europe, North
     and South America, Australasia, and Africa, and the Network
     of Sex Work Projects, based in the United Kingdom.

Hooking is Real Employment (HIRE)
847 Monroe Drive
Atlanta, Georgia  30308
U.S.A.
Phone: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]
Attn: Dolores French, Executive Director

Sex Workers Action Coalition (SWAC)
PO Box 210256
San Francsico, CA 94121
U.S.A.
Phone: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]
Attn: Carol Leigh, Director

P.O.N.Y. (Prostitutes Of New York)
271 Madison Avenue, #908
New York, New York  10016
U.S.A.
Phone: [phone]
Attn: Susan Daisy

U.S. Prostitutes Collective
Post Office Box 14512
San Francisco, California  94114
U.S.A.
Phone: [phone]

Waikiki Health Center
277 Ohua Avenue
Honolulu, Hawaii  96815-3695
U.S.A.
Attn: Pam Vessel

*CANADA*

Maggie's
298 Gerrard Street East
Post Office Box 1143, Station F
Toronto, Ontario  M4Y 2T8
Canada
Phone: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]

     Maggie's mission is to provide education and support to
     assist sex workers in their efforts to live and work with
     safety and dignity. Maggie's produces Bad Trick Sheets,
     Bad Call Sheets, runs the Prostitutes' Safe Sex Project
     and runs a resource center for sex workers. Maggie's is
     incorporated as a non-profit charitable organization in
     Ontario and receives financial contributions from the
     City of Toronto Department of Public Health, the Ontario
     Ministry of Health, Health Canada, the Ontario Trillium
     Foundation and private sponsors.  Maggie's is associated
     with the NTFP.

Sex Workers Alliance of Toronto (SWAT)
Post Office Box 1143, Station F
Toronto, Ontario  M4Y 2T8
CANADA
Phone: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]

Sex Workers' Alliance of Vancouver
Post Office Box 3075
Vancouver, British Columbia  V6B 3X6
Canada
Phone: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]
Worldwide Web:  http://www.walnet.org/swav/

     The Sex Workers' Alliance of Vancouver was founded in 1994
     to fight for sex workers' rights to fair wages and working
     conditions that are safe, clean and healthy. We are people
     who work or have worked in the sex industry and our friends.
     We meet informally to develop and implement ways to make the
     sex trade a safer and healthier place to work. With this aim
     SWAV opposes any law that criminalizes work in the sex trade.
     Currently, SWAV publishes a Bad Calls List (a database of
     descriptions of violent men who pose as clients of pros who
     make dates over the phone), health and legal information and
     provides free condoms. Members are available for support for
     others working in the sex trade and to educate service
     providers about the needs of sex workers.  SWAV is a member
     of the North American Task Force on Prostitution (NTFP), the
     International Committee for Prostitutes' Rights (ICPR) and
     the Network of Sex Work Projects. SWAV is not an agency of
     the government, nor does it receive any government funding.

*CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA*

MUSA A.C.
Col. Alamos C.P. Mexico
DF 03400
MEXICO
Phone/FAX: [phone]
Attn: Claudia Colimoro

Prostitution & Civil Rights
ISER Ladeira da Gloria
98 Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro  22211
BRAZIL
Phone: [phone]
FAX: [phone]
Attn: Chris Peterson, M.D.

Programma Pegacao
NOSS Rua Visconde de Piraja 127/201
Ipanema  Rio de Janeiro/ RJ
CEP 22410-001
BRAZIL
Phone: [phone]
FAX: [phone]
Attn: Paulo Longo

Associacao de Prostitutas do Estato de Rio de Janeiro
R Miguel de Frias 718, Estacao
Rio de Janeiro, RJ
BRAZIL
Phone: [phone]
FAX: [phone]
Attn: Euridice Francisco

*EUROPE*

Network of Sexwork Projects
54 Bryantwood Road
London N77-BE
UNITED KINGDOM
Phone/FAX: [phone]
Attn: Cheryl Overs

Outsiders (for disabled people)
P. O. Box 4ZB
London, England W1A 4ZB
UNITED KINGDOM
Phone: [phone]
Attn: Dr. Tuppy Owens

De Rode Draad (The Red Thread)
Kloveniersburgwal, 47
Amsterdam
NEDERLANDS
Phone: [phone]
FAX: [phone]

Mr A. de Graaf Stichting
Instituut voor Prostitutie Vraagstukken
4, Westermarkt
1016 DK Amsterdam
NETHERLANDS
Phone: [phone]
       31-20-620-2593
FAX: [phone]
Attn: Jan Visser

PAYOKE
Zirksttraat 27 2000
Antwerpen
BELGIUM
FAX: [phone]

HWG
Karlsruher Str. 5
60329  Frankfurt
GERMANY
Phone: [phone]
FAX: [phone]
Attn: Christine Drossler

HYDRA
Rigaer Strasse 3
10247 Berlin
GERMANY
Phone: [phone]
Attn: Monika Hofman

Kassandra
Kopernikusplatz 12
90459 Nurnberg
GERMANY
Phone: [phone]

Straps & Grips
c/o Aids Hilfe
Herwarthstr. 2
48143 Munster
GERMANY
Phone: [phone]

Cinderella
Postfach 10 18 14
40009 Dusseldorf
GERMANY
Phone: [phone]

Phoenix e. V
Postfach 47 62
Bergmannstr. 3
30159 Hannover
GERMANY
Phone: [phone]

Nitribitt
Stader Str. 1
28205  Bremen
GERMANY
Phone: [phone]

Hurenselbst-hilfe Saabrucken
Forsterstr. 39
66125  Saabrucken
GERMANY
Phone: [phone]

Hurizonte e. V
Archiv und Dokumentationszentrum fur Prostitution
Postfach 30 35 53
10727  Berlin
GERMANY
Phone: [phone]

Madonna
Gusstahlstr. 34
44793  Bochum
GERMANY
Phone: [phone]
FAX: [phone]

Nutten & Nuttchen
Fredericiastr. 14
14059  Berlin
GERMANY
Phone: [phone]
Attn: Barbara Merzinger

Caf'e Sperre
Schillerstr. 69
34117 Kassel
GERMANY
Phone: [phone]

Bathseba
Steinwegpassage 42 A
38100 Braunschweig
GERMANY
Phone: [phone]

Callboy's Organizations (Germany)
Querstrich Auguststr. 84
10117  Berlin
GERMANY
Phone: [phone]

Strichweise Heiter
c/o Basisprojekt
Hamburg St. Georg-Kirchhof 26
2009  Hamburg
GERMANY
Phone: [phone]
FAX: [phone]

Comitato per i Diritti Civili delle Prostitute
Casella Postal 67
33170 Pordenone
ITALY
Phone: [phone]
FAX: [phone]
Attn: Pia Covre

Scot-PEP
21A Torphican Street
Edinburgh EH3 8HX
SCOTLAND
Phone: [phone]
FAX: [phone]
Attn: Ruth Morgan Thomas

Aspasie
10 r. Charles Cusin
Geneva
SWITZERLAND
Phone: [phone]
Attn: Mireille Rodeville

Centre de Documentation International sur la Prostitution
24, rue Neuchatel
1201 Geneva
SWITZERLAND
Phone: [phone]
Attn: Griselidis Real

Xenia
Mauerain 1
3012 Bern
SWITZERLAND
Phone: [phone]

*AUSTRALASIA*

Action for REACH OUT
Post Office Box 98108
T.S.T. Post Office
Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon
HONG KONG
Phone: [phone] call 392
FAX: [phone]

EMPOWER
National Office
57/60 Tivanont Road
Nonthburi 11000
THAILAND
Phone: [phone]
Attn: Chantipwa (Noi) Apisuk

Scarlet Alliance
Post Office Box 811
Fyshwick 2609
Australian Central Territories
AUSTRALIA
Phone: [phone]
FAX: [phone]

ACT (WISE)
Workers in Sex Employment
Post Office Box 811
Fyshwick 2609
Australian Central Territories
AUSTRALIA
Phone: [phone]
FAX: [phone]

S.W.O.P.
Sex Workers Outreach Project
Post Office Box 1453
Darlinghurst 2010
New South Wales
AUSTRALIA
Phone: [phone]
FAX: [phone]

SQWISI (Self Help for Queensland Workers in the Sex Industry)
Post Office Box 689
West End Q4101
Queensland
AUSTRALIA
Phone/FAX: [phone]

The Australian National University Department of Human Geography
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
Canberry 0200
Australian Central Territories
AUSTRALIA
Attn: Alison Murray

New Zealand Prostitutes Collective
Post Office Box 11-412
Manners Street
Wellington
NEW ZEALAND
Phone: [phone]
FAX: [phone]
Attn: Catherine Healy

New Zealand Prostitutes Collective
Post Office Box 13-561
Christchurch
NEW ZEALAND
Phone: [phone]

New Zealand Prostitutes Collective
Post Office Box 6407
Dunedin
NEW ZEALAND
Phone: [phone]
FAX: [phone]

New Zealand Prostitutes Collective
Post Office Box 68509
Newton, Auckland
NEW ZEALAND
Phone/FAX: [phone]
Attn: Roxanne Henare