06-25-2014, 11:20 PM
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Just heard this story on the news tonight...Mountain View is only about 25 miles south of San Francisco.
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Bay Area sex worker advocates expressed concern today that the seizure could affect sex workers? livelihood and safety?including those doing legal work.
Oakland-based sex worker rights advocate Sabrina Morgan said that MyRedBook helped sex workers to screen and protect themselves from potentially violent clients and that its absence could put already vulnerable women in danger.
She said that in addition to providing listings, MyRedBook enabled sex workers to talk to clients before meeting them and to talk to other sex workers about potential clients for referrals.
The site contained both a public forum and a private forum just for workers.
?Clients on the site would need references,? and a good reference from another worker was an indication that a particular client was safe to see, she said.
?Taking the site offline means that type of networking and resource sharing is pushed further underground,? Morgan said.
While other websites offer similar services, there is nothing remaining like MyRedBook, Morgan said, as others charge a fee to create listings and operate on a national scale.
Kristina Dolgin, a spokeswoman with the Bay Area chapter of the Sex Worker Outreach Project, said that the loss of MyRedBook as a free resource for sex workers could put an already marginalized community further at risk.
?They?re going to have less safe interactions and be put into situations where they can be put at risk of violence,? Dolgin said. ?To those who can?t afford switching to another website, this is completely detrimental.?
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