Melissa Petro

It's pretty well understood in 12 step programs that "who you see here and what you say here, stays here."

It's time to talk substantively and honestly about how sex work isn't any one thing.

"We built a luxury dream home but can only afford to have two children."

“If you believe in the decriminalisation of sex work,” Ian Dunt rightfully points out, “you will instantly come under a sustained and highly emotive attack on your morality and your identity.” In this vein, when a man comes out in favor of sex worker’s rights, he becomes “a betrayer of women, a gender Judas encouraging violence against them.”

Use insect repellent, sleep under a mosquito net, and just don’t get pregnant — is this the best we can do for Latin American women?

Sometimes the fights I pick with my fiancé are really fights with myself.

A week or so ago I started shopping for a wedding dress, and guess what? Shopping for a wedding dress sucks!

Stock photos seemed to get pregnancy and parenting all wrong. When a Facebook friend posted looking for a real life pregnant stock photo model, I offered.

A lot has been written about what not to say to a pregnant person. Being on the opposite side of that, I’ve learned pregnant people make mistakes, too.

Want to work responsibly on the issue of sex trafficking? Here’s some of what you should know.