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Jul 3, 2023 - The latest on It's Time to Decriminalize Sex Work

Dec 31, 2022

On Earth Day, Thursday, April 22nd from 10:30am - 11am (PT), leaders of a new coalition, Plant Medicine Healing Alliance, will be hosting a press conference to...

Feb 19, 2026 - Suicide is a common law crime in Virginia, something that was inherited from British law back in the 1700s when people who died by suicide forfeited all their...

Apr 20, 2023 - We’ve seen what prohibition does to markets — it doesn’t make them safer

With heightened interest in psilocybin’s potential to treat opioid addiction, depression, and end-of-life anxiety in the terminally ill, across the United...

Sep 29, 2021 - Decriminalizing sex work would help protect the lives of trans women of color, whether or not we engage in the sex trade.

Apr 29, 2025 - DSW Staff Testifies in RI and NH March 18, 2025 DSW Featured at Symposium on Policing Commercial Sex Work April 4, 2025 NYPD Officers Assault and Extort Sex...

Jul 24, 2023 - The founders of Backpage.com, Michael Lacy and James Larkin, are being tried in federal court, along with four other employees, for knowingly

Jul 25, 2023 - If this law stands, sex workers will be like canaries in the coal mine for freedom of speech, as its enforcement creep spreads censorship

Dec 31, 2022

Aug 3, 2024 - Decriminalize Sex Work created these fact sheets to help your learn about specific issues regarding prostitution laws across the U.S.

Jul 25, 2023 - DSW drafted and submitted to a federal CA court a spirited amicus brief that challenges the constitutionality of the devastating FOSTA/SESTA

Nov 19, 2025 - DSW’s national e-newsletter highlights the most important developments relating to our efforts to end the prohibition of prostitution and

Dec 31, 2022

Jun 3, 2023 - SESTA/‍FOSTA applies liability to online platforms seen to be promoting prostitution, endangers the safety of sex workers & limits freedom of speech.

Jan 15, 2022 - A ballot initiative could decriminalize low-level drug possession and fund addiction treatment. Getting caught with drugs like cocaine, heroin, or...

Nov 28, 2024 - Our Mission: Improve human health and well-being by working to decriminalize and expand access to entheogenic plants and fungi through grassroots political and...

Jun 16, 2024 - What is the nordic model of prostitution? We discuss why the nordic model doesn’t work, human trafficking & a legacy of nordic model failure.

Jul 25, 2023 - Earlier this year, DSW filed an amicus brief in support of the lawsuit brought against the U.S. government by the Woodhull Freedom Foundation

Jun 30, 2025 - How One Progressive City Is Fighting to Decriminalize Abortion As part of a growing movement, municipalities like Austin are finding ways to protect their most...

Jul 24, 2023 - Decriminalize Sex Work (DSW) is supporting the appellants in a federal case challenging the criminalization of protected speech.

Dec 31, 2022

Jul 21, 2023 - The Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (SESTA) & Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA) harm the very individuals they were meant to protect

This article by Bia Labate and Kevin Feeney explores problematic actions taken by Decriminalize Nature (DN), in regards to the peyote cactus, in their efforts...

May 17, 2024 - Activists and state lawmakers traveled to Albany on May 15 to inject new momentum into a legislative campaign to comprehensively decriminalize sex work in New

Nov 24, 2025 - Florida Rep. Michelle Salzman, a Republican from Pensacola, has filed a bill for consideration in 2026 that would aim to help curb drug overdose deaths by...

Nov 19, 2025 - Florida Rep. Michelle Salzman has filed a bill that would aim to help curb drug overdose deaths by decriminalizing drug-checking equipment.

In light of recent claims made by Decriminalize Nature (DN), the Cactus Conservation Instititute (CCI) would like to clarify that they as an organization are...

Jul 21, 2023 - SESTA/FOSTA—A set of laws passed by the Trump administration: The Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act and the Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act

Oct 1, 2024 - The Entrapment Model, also known as the Nordic Model, or Equality Model, refers to the theory that criminalizing clients and third parties.

Dec 31, 2022

Nov 17, 2024 - A collection of podcast series and episodes that discuss important issues related to the decriminalization of consensual adult sex work

We're a group of sex workers, clients, taxpayers, freedom lovers, and people from all walks of life working together to stop the immoral, wasteful, and...

Dec 20, 2022 - For media inquiries, contact Ariela Moscowitz: ariela@dswork.org | 212-368-7874

Dec 2, 2022 - DSW Director of Communications Ariela Moscowitz previously served as Director of Community Relations at Americans for Immigrant Justice.

An anthropologist, a lawyer, and a neuroscientist’s response to Michael Pollan In an opinion piece to the New York Times commenting on Denver’s recent...

Jul 25, 2023 - SESTA/FOSTA was the federal bill signed into law in 2018 which shut down services sex workers used to schedule and screen their clients

Jan 15, 2022 - Voters approved a ballot initiative to decriminalize low-level drug possession and fund treatment, and a separate initiative to legalize therapeutic psilocybin...

Jan 6, 2026 - Sex Work Rights exists to advocate for the destigmatization and decriminalization of consensual adult sex work. We believe this is a human rights issue.

Dec 31, 2022 - Is prostitution legal in North Dakota? This guide lists all of the specific North Dakota prostitution laws and explains what they mean.

Andrew Cuomo and Eric Adams are both slamming Zohran Mamdani for past support for decriminalizing sex work. Cuomo signed a repeal of a prostitution loit...

Jan 30, 2024 - Decriminalize Sex Work—DSW—is a national organization with a state-by-state strategy to end the prohibition of consensual adult prostitution

Jun 28, 2022 - This comprehensive guide to the charge of soliciting prostitution answers the most frequently asked questions about prostitution laws.

Jul 25, 2023 - Decriminalize Sex Work (DSW) is supporting the appellants in a federal case challenging SESTA/FOSTA and its criminalization of protected speech

Feb 22, 2024 - Activists behind the Decriminalize Nature initiative talk about decriminalizing entheogens in Oakland.

Jul 24, 2023 - U.S. Representatives Khanna and Lee, and U.S. Senators Warren & Wyden, re-introduced the Safe Sex Workers Act (SSWA).

Mar 16, 2020 - “Sex workers and their allies have won an important victory in their ongoing constitutional challenge to FOSTA/SESTA, a federal law that is…”

Feb 26, 2019 - Decrim NY is the groundbreaking coalition introducing the most comprehensive state-level sex work decriminalization bill in the country.

Jun 1, 2023 - For media inquiries, contact Ariela Moscowitz: ariela@dswork.org | 212-368-7874

Decriminalize Nature: DN believes entheogens refer to sacred natural ethnobotanicals, which are often erroneously labeled as “drugs” while in fact distinct...

Dec 31, 2022 - Is prostitution legal in Florida? This guide lists all of the specific Florida prostitution laws and explains what they mean.