Café Sperre
Schillerstr. 69
34117 Kassel GERMANY
Phone: +(49) 561-770-775
Centre de Documentation International
sur la Prostitution
24, rue Neuchatel
1201 Geneva SWITZERLAND
Phone: +(41) 22-732-8276
Contact: Griselidis Real
Cinderella
Postfach 10 18 14
40009 Dusseldorf GERMANY
Phone: +(49) 211-899-6590
Comitato per i Diritti Civili delle Prostitute
Casella Postal 67
33170 Pordenone ITALY
Phone: +(39) 434-572-902
Fax: +(39) 434-640-563
Contact: Pia Covre
De Rode Draad (The Red Thread)
Kloveniersburgwal, 47
Amsterdam NETHERLANDS
Phone: +(31) 20-624-3366
Fax: +(31) 20-620-0383
Hurenselbst-hilfe Saabrucken
Forsterstr. 39
66125 Saabrucken GERMANY
Phone: +(49) 681-38-85-286
Hurizonte e. V
Archiv und Dokumentationszentrum
fur Prostitution
Postfach 30 35 53
10727 Berlin GERMANY
Phone: +(49) 30-218-55-16
HWG
Karlsruher Str. 5
60329 Frankfurt GERMANY
Phone: +(49) 69-25-27-42
Fax: +(49) 69-25-03-31
Contact: Christine Drossier
HYDRA
Rigaer Strasse 3
10247 Berlin GERMANY
Phone: +(49) 30-707-47-23
Contact: Monika Hofman
Kassandra
Kopernikusplatz 12
90459 Nurnberg GERMANY
Phone: +(49) 911-44-28-89
Madonna
Gusstahlstr. 34
44793 Bochum GERMANY
Phone: +(49) 234-68-57-50
Fax: +(49) 234-68-57-50
Mr A. de Graaf Stichting
Instituut voor Prostitutie Vraagstukken
4, Westermarkt
1016 DK Amsterdam
NETHERLANDS
Phone: +(31) 20-624-7149
Fax: +(31) 20-620-2593
Contact: Jan Visser
Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP)
Phone: +(44) 81-992-3481
Email: sexworknet@gn.apc.org
URL: www.walnet.org/csis/groups/nswp/index.html
Contact: Cheryl Overs and Paulo
Henrique Longo
Nitribitt
Stader Str. 1
28205 Bremen GERMANY
Phone: +(49) 421-44-86-62
Nutten & Nuttchen
Fredericiastr. 14
14059 Berlin GERMANY
Phone: +(49) 30-302-22-53
Contact: Barbara Merzinger
Outsiders
P. O. Box 4ZB
London W1A 4ZB ENGLAND
Phone: +(44) 71-739-3195
Contact: Dr. Tuppy Owens
A support organization for disabled people.
PAYOKE
Zirksttraat 27
2000 Antwerpen BELGIUM
Phone: +(32) 3-232-2440
Fax: +(32) 3-233-2324
Contact: Veronique Grossi
Phoenix e. V
Postfach 47 62
Bergmannstr. 3
30159 Hannover GERMANY
Phone: +(49) 511-1-46-46
Querstrich
Auguststr. 84
10117 Berlin GERMANY
Phone: +(49) 90-208-74-19
Organization of callboys.
Scot-PEP
21A Torphican Street
Edinburgh EH3 8HX SCOTLAND
Phone: +(44) 31-229-8269
Fax: +(44) 31-228-2563
Contact: Ruth Morgan Thomas
Straps & Grips
c/o Aids Hilfe
Herwarthstr. 2
48143 Munster GERMANY
Phone: +(49) 251-4-30-31
Strichweise Heiter
c/o Basisprojekt Hamburg
St. Georg-Kirchhof 26
2009 Hamburg GERMANY
Phone: +(49) 40-24-96-94
Fax: +(49) 40-280-26-73
Organization of callboys.
Xenia
Mauerain 1
3012 Bern SWITZERLAND
Phone: +(41) 31-24 34 42
LATIN AMERICA
Associacao de Prostitutas do Estato de Rio de Janeiro
R Miguel de Frias 718 Estacao Rio de Janeiro
BRAZIL
Phone: 552-1-273-7991
Fax: 552-1-286-2657
Conact: Euridice Francisco
Movimento ABRAZO
Mexica 224 Col. Azteca
San Nicolas de los Garza 66480 MEXICO
Contact: Joaquin Hurtado Perez
MUSA A.C
Mujeres por la Salud en Accion Contra el SIDA
Soto 255 Col. Guerro
Mexico, DF MEXICO
Phone: +(52) 5-680-4901
Contact: Claudia Colimoro
Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP)
Red de Trabajadoras y Trabajadores
Sexuales de Latino America y el Caribe
Apartado Postal 3806
Caracas 1010 Venezuela
Phone: +(58) 2-871-3634
Contact: Nury Pemia
Email: ambar@cantv.net
Programma Pegacao
NOSS
Rua Visconde de Piraja 127, #201
Ipanema Rio de Janeiro/RJ CEP 22410-001
BRAZIL
Phone: +(55) 21-227-5944
Fax: +(55) 21-205-5087
Contact: Paulo Longo
Prostitution & Civil Rights
ISER
Ladeira da Gloria 98
Rio de Janeiro/RJ 22211 BRAZIL
Phone: +(55) 21-265-5747
Fax: +(55) 21-205-4796
Contact: Chris Peterson, M.D.
NORTH AMERICA
Bay Area Sex Worker Advocacy
Network (BAYSWAN)
P.O. Box 210256
San Francisco CA 94121
UNITED STATES
Email: info@bayswan.org
URL: www.bayswan.org
Sponsored by the Exotic Dancers
Alliance, Coalition on Prostitution, and Street Outreach Services, Bay Area Sex Worker Advocacy Network, (BAYSWAN) organizes to improve working conditions, increase safety and services for workers, and to eliminate discrimination on behalf of individuals working within the sex industry.
Coalition on Prostitution
P.O. Box 210256
San Francisco CA 94121
UNITED STATES
Email: penet@bayswan.org
URL: www.bayswan.org/COP.html
The San Francisco Coalition on Prostitution is a network of prostitutes, dancers, and performers in the sex industry; and political advocates, health workers, service providers and legal advocates organized with the goal of supporting the rights and needs of sex trade workers. “Our highest priority [is] the situation as it affects the most vulnerable populations of prostitutes in San Francisco.” The Coalition is a sponsored project of the Women’s Building, funded, in part, by the Women’s Foundation in San Francisco.
Commercial Sex Information Service (CSIS)
P. O. Box 3075
349 Georgia St. W.
Vancouver BC V6B 3X6 CANADA
URL: www.walnet.org/csis/
The Commercial Sex Information Service (CSIS) is a clearinghouse of information about laws, sexual health, commerce and culture as these topics relate to sex work in Canada.
COYOTE
COYOTE (Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics) was founded in 1973 to work for the repeal of the prostitution laws and an end to the stigma associated with sexual work. In addition to engaging in public education regarding a wide range of issues related to prostitution, COYOTE has provided crisis counseling, support gro
ups, and referrals to legal and other service providers to thousands of prostitutes, mostly women. COYOTE members have also testified at government hearings, served as expert witnesses in trials, helped police with investigations of crimes against prostitutes, and provided sensitivity training to government and private non-profit agencies that provide services to prostitutes.
COYOTE/Los Angeles/Southern
California.
1626 N. Wilcox Ave. #580
Hollywood, CA 90028
UNITED STATES
Phone: +(1) 818-892-1859
Email: coyotela@FreedomUSA.org
URL: www.freedomusa.org/coyotela/home.html
Contact: Norma Jean Almodovar
COYOTE/San Francisco
2269 Chestnut St # 452
San Francisco CA 94123-2607
UNITED STATES
Phone: +(1) 415-435-7950
Email: margosj@aol.com
URL: www.bayswan.org/COYOTE.html
Contact: Margo St. James
COYOTE/Seattle
UNITED STATES
URL: www.coyotesea.org/
Contact: Catherine La Croix
Exotic Dancer’s Alliance
2215-R Market ST., Ste #186
San Francisco CA 94114
UNITED STATES
Phone: + (1) 415-995-4745
Email: JBEDA@aol.com
URL: www.bayswan.org/EDAindex.html
Contact: Johanna Breyer & Dawn Passar
Exotic Dancer’s Alliance is a collective of self-identified female exotic dancers organizing for improved working conditions and civil rights within the sex industry. In 1996 Exotic Dancers
Alliance assisted workers at the Lusty Lady Theater during the first organizing campaign in San Francisco adult entertainment theaters as well as the formalization of the Exotic Dancers Union, a chapter of S.E.I.U., Local 790.
Feminists for Free Expression
2525 Times Square Station
New York NY 10108-2525
UNITED STATES
Phone: +(1) 212-702-6292
Fax: +(1) 212-702-6277
Email: freedom@well.com
URL: www.well.com/user/freedom/
Feminists for Free Expression is a group of diverse feminists working to preserve the individual’s right and responsibility to read, listen, view and produce materials of her choice, without the intervention of the state “for her own good.”
Hooking is Real Employment (HIRE)
931 Monroe Dr. NE Suite 102-175
Atlanta GA 30308 UNITED STATES
Phone: +(1) 404-876-1212
Email: frenchdom@aol.com
Contact: Dolores French, Executive
Director
International Sex Worker Foundation for Art, Culture and Education
8801 Cedros Ave. #7
Panorama City CA 91402
UNITED STATES
Phone/Fax: +(1) 818-892-2029
Email: iswface@iswface.org
URL: www.iswface.org
Contact: Norma Jean Almodovar
ISWFACE (pronounced “ice face”) serves to foster an appreciation of the art and culture created by and about sex workers. ISWFACE recently purchased an old Victorian brothel in Butte, Montana which the organization plans to restore to use as our cultural center and museum.
Johns and Call Girls United Against Repression (JACGUAR)
P.O. Box 021011
Brooklyn NY 11202-1011 UNITED STATES
Email: johnl@world.std.com, johnl@interport.net, johnl@prostitu-tion.org
Contact: Fred Cherry, Chairman
Maggie’s
298 Gerrard Street East
P.O. Box 1143, Station F
Toronto ON M4Y 2T8 CANADA
Phone: +(1) 416-964-0150
Maggie’s mission is to support 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.
Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP)
North America: Norma Jean Almodovar
International Sex Worker Foundation for Art, Culture and Education
8801 Cedros Ave. #7
Panorama City, CA 91402 UNITED STATES
Phone: (818) 892-2029
Email: normaja@freedomusa.org
URL: www.iswface.org
Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP)
North America Contact: Andrew Sorfleet
Vancouver, BC CANADA
Email: handyman@walnet.org
URL: www.walnet.org/nswp/
North American Task Force on Prostitution
2785 Broadway, Apt. 4L
New York NY 10025-2834
UNITED STATES
Phone: +(1) 212-866-8854
Contact: Priscilla Alexander
Prostitutes Education Network PENET
P.O. Box 210256
San Francisco CA 94121
UNITED STATES
Phone: +(1) 415-751-1659
Email: penet@bayswan.org
URL: www.bayswan.org/penet.html
Contact: Carol Leigh
Provides information on legislative and cultural issues, such as decriminalization, human rights in the context of prostitution, violence against prostitutes and women, sex workers and pornography, as well as current trends in legislation and social policy in the U.S. and internationally. Includes material from The North American Task Force on Prostitution (U.S.), PONY- Prostitutes of New York (N.Y.), SWOP-Sex Worker’s Outreach Project (NSW, Australia), SWAC- Sex Worker’s Action Coalition (Oakland), Toronto Safe Sex Project, COYOTE -Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics (San Francisco, Los Angeles and Seattle), HIRE- Hooking Is Real Employment (Atlanta, Georgia), SIN-Sex Industry Network (Adelaide, Australia), SWAV -Sex Worker’s Alliance of Vancouver (British Columbia), Danzine (Portland, Oregon), and the Exotic Dancer’s Alliance (San Francisco).
Prostitutes of New York (PONY)
P.O. Box 174 Cooper Station
New York NY 10276-0174
UNITED STATES
Phone: +(1) 212-713-5678
URL: http://www.bayswan.org/PONY.html
PONY is a support and advocacy group for all people in the sex industry. “We welcome all current or former sex workers, including male, female or TS/TV prostitutes, erotic dancers, nude models, x-rated actors, peep show performers, phone sex workers, S&M/B&D professionals, strippers, madams...” PONY advocates the decriminalization of prostitution and calls for an end to illegal police activity—such as street sweeps—in the enforcement of existing laws.
San Francisco Task Force on Prostitution
Email: carolleigh@aol.com
URL: http://www.ci.sf.ca.us/reports/sftfp/
Contact: Carol Leigh
Sex Workers Action Coalition (SWAC)
P.O. Box 210256
San Francsico CA 94121
UNITED STATES
Phone: +(1) 415-435-7931
Email: carolleigh@aol.com
Contact: Carol Leigh, Director
Sex Workers Alliance of Toronto (SWAT)
100 Wellesley St E #2706
Toronto ON M4Y 1H5 CANADA
Phone: +(1) 416 921-6520
Email: swat@walnut.org
URL:
www.walnet.org/csis/groups/swat
Contact: Anasstasia Kuzyk
Canadian sex workers information service
Sex Workers Alliance of Vancouver (SWAV)
P. O. Box 3075
349 Georgia St. W.
Vancouver BC V6B 3X6 CANADA
Phone: +(1) 604-488-0710
Email: swav@walnut.org
URL: www.walnet.org/swav/
The Sex Workers Alliance of Vancouver (SWAV) fights for sex workers’ right to fair wages and to working conditions that are safe, clean and healthy. SWAV publishes a Bad Calls List, provides health and legal information and free condoms, and sponsors the Commercia
l Sex Information Service website. Members are available to support others working in the sex trade and to educate service providers and policy-makers about the needs of sex workers.
The Cyprian Guild
P.O.Box 423145
San Francisco CA 94142
UNITED STATES
Phone: +(1) 415-522-2910
Email: guild@qadisha.com
URL: www.qadisha.com/guild.html
The Cyprian Guild is a San Francisco based business and social network for adult entertainers. “We promote ethical business practices and skill development among our members. Our fun, creative community events not only entertain, but provide networking and educational opportunites for ourselves and the public.”
US PROStitutes
P.O. Box 14512
San Francisco CA 94114
UNITED STATES
Phone: +(1) 415-626-4114
Fax: +(1) 510-839-6775
Contact: Rachel West
AIDS Prevention
California AIDS Prevention and Education Project (CAL-PEP)
510 16th St #200
Oakland CA 94612 UNITED STATES
Phone: +(1) 510-874-7850
Fax: +(1) 510-839-6775
URL: www.whoreact.net/CAL-PEP.html
CAL-PEP’s Outreach Team offers health education, safer sex workshops including condom demonstrations and negotiation training, distribution of condoms, lubricants, bleach and educational materials, and referrals to recovery and detox programs, prenatal care, HTV/STD testing and other health care services. “CAL-PEP is in the Streets to Help Our People Keep Safe and to Support HIV+ Brothers and Sisters.”
FROST’D
Foundation for Research on Sexually Transmitted Diseases
dba From Our Streets with Dignity
369 Eighth Avenue
New York NY 10001 UNITED STATES
Phone: +(1) 212-924-FREE
Fax: +(1) 212-924-8086
Email: frostd@interport.net
URL: www.whoreact.net/FROSTD.html
Sponsors research on sexually transmitted diseases, especially HIV, among New York City’s street walking prostitutes.
Sexuality Resources
San Francisco Sex Information
Phone: +(1) 415-989-SFSI
Provides anonymous, accurate, non-judgmental information about sex. “If you have a question about sex, we’ll either answer it or refer you to someone who can!” Volunteers undergo extensive training in all aspects of human sexuality. Monday - Friday from 3 p.m. - 9 p.m. Pacific time.
Society for Human Sexuality
University of Washington SAO 141
Box 352238
Seattle WA 98195 UNITED STATES
Email: humsex@u.washington.edu
URL:
www.sexuality.org/ftpsite.html#workers The Society for Human Sexuality website is one of the best resources on sexuality on the Internet. SHS sex work files include a bibliography on sex work, interviews with activists like Carol Leigh, alt.sex prostitution FAQ, and much other useful information.