{"id":1478,"date":"2007-11-07T07:58:09","date_gmt":"2007-11-07T14:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1478"},"modified":"2007-12-05T17:38:21","modified_gmt":"2007-12-06T00:26:21","slug":"ny-mag-is-off-the-hook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1478","title":{"rendered":"NY Mag Is Off The Hook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/11072007\/news\/regionalnews\/ny_mag_is_off_hook_834461.htm\">From NYPost<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>November 7, 2007 &#8212; Lonely hearts around town won&#8217;t be able to find rent-a-dates in the back pages of New York magazine anymore.<\/p>\n<p>The popular weekly announced yesterday it will stop accepting sex ads in the wake of protest threats by the local chapter of the National Organization for Women.<\/p>\n<p>The feminist group called the magazine the &quot;marketing arm of the organized-crime world of prostitution and human trafficking&quot; because of ads touting &quot;Asians Gone Wild,&quot; &quot;Asian Bliss&quot; or &quot;Hot Latinas.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We worked to educate them on the connections trafficking and the existing sex industry,&quot; said Sonia Ossorio, president of NOW-NYC. &quot;Numerous publications have come to the conclusion that it&#8217;s not a business they really want to be in.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>New York magazine became the 15th publication this year, including Time Out New York and the New York Press, that agreed to end the &quot;escort&quot; and &quot;model&quot; ads that are often codes for prostitution.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;New York has been trying to eliminate this section for years. The business is prospering at this magazine and it was high time to get out of a business we were never comfortable being in,&quot; said magazine spokeswoman Serena Torrey.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From NYPost: November 7, 2007 &#8212; Lonely hearts around town won&#8217;t be able to find rent-a-dates in the back pages of New York magazine anymore. The popular weekly announced yesterday it will stop accepting sex ads in the wake of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1478\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[552],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prostitution"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}