Melissa Gira Grant (@melissagira) is a writer and freelance journalist whose work has appeared in Glamour, the Guardian, The Nation, Wired, and the Atlantic. She is the author of Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work.

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What the New York Times (and France) Got Wrong About Prostitution

Melissa Gira Grant

Dec 11, 2013 5:42 AM

How shutting down Craigslist’s “erotic services” section hurts prostitutes and cops.

Melissa Gira Grant

May 27, 2009 4:59 PM

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