For a different perspective on that same New York Times article see this piece on Bound, Not Gagged. It was posted by Amanda Brooks on behalf of Faith O'Donnell, one of the women profiled in the Times piece. Briefly, she felt like the journalists (Cara Buckley and Andrew Jacobs) wrote what was essentially a fluff piece, omitting any discussion of her political analysis of sex work, while providing too many possibly identifying details (which were provided to them only so they could confirm her identity for the story, but not for inclusion in the published piece), and that details attributed to her actually came from one of the other women. It seems like the Times, whether on its opinion pages or in its news pages (the Dominus piece was on the front page of the Metro section) has a hard time reporting about prostitution, or sex in general really.

It is a disheartening observation about what is reputedly a liberal newspaper.

...because public space really matters!

Elizabeth