Andrea Heinz
@heinzsight2020
Commercial Sexual Exploitation Activist. 7 yrs in prostitution (2006-2013). Executive Producer of @LabeledDoc. Co-author of @whenmenbuysex. Ⓥegan. Runner.
SafeHope Home in Durham Region (Ontario) for survivors of human trafficking was destroyed by fire. The women lost all of their belongings - the last of their personal things that they managed to keep after escaping their traffickers. Pls donate if you can. gofund.me/dad98f2d
FANTASTIC News in Canada today as the Supreme Court upholds our material benefit offense! This is a huge, much needed win to keeping our nation’s Nordic Model style law in effect! 🙌 lethbridgeherald.com/news/national-…
I read this book and was honoured to write an endorsement. Come along and support survivors' voices! The Zoom launch is Thursday evening in east coast Australia, & the calendar will show you the time in your location. 💜 @spinifexpress @CarolineNorma76
Caroline Norma and Hyebin Shin (translator) will be launching Once You Cross a Street You’re on the Edge of a Cliff: Surviving the Sex Industry in Korea by Bomnal - Thursday 24th July 6:00—7:00pm Register Now for this free online event trybooking.com/events/landing…
“This is the truth that the public and our elected officials must face: The sex trade […] is violence, and the buyers are not harmless “johns” ‒ they are predators who rely on the silence of society and the shame of survivors to keep operating freely.” usatoday.com/story/opinion/…
I was in a meeting with a male politician today discussing prostitution in Edmonton and the city’s licensing regime. I cried. I didn’t want to, and I tried to hold it in, but even 12.5 years after exiting some things are still incredibly raw for me.
“Liberal-left/secular men call it “sexual freedom,” by which they mean the freedom to pursue sexual pleasure without constraints from other men & without concern for the consequences for women.”
Thanks to Donna Hughes, editor of the great journal “Dignity: A Journal of Analysis of Exploitation and Violence,” for publishing my article "Why Are Men So Obsessed with Pornography? Andrea Dworkin Was Right." digitalcommons.uri.edu/dignity/vol10/…
Pro “sex work” orgs (who campaign for full decriminalization of the sex industry) are starting to shut down in British Columbia. Hopefully services to sexually exploited individuals can now be delivered with harm elimination as the focus/goal. straight.com/living/pace-so…
New episode out now! In episode three of our #MenForEquality series, host Michelle Abel @MichelleAbel7 interviews Marcel Van der Watt (Ph.D.) @Marcel_HT, President of the National Center on Sexual Exploitation @NCOSE in Washington, DC. Together, they explore the deep connections…
New episode out tomorrow! In episode three of our #MenForEquality series, host Michelle Abel @MichelleAbel7 interviews Marcel Van der Watt (Ph.D.) @Marcel_HT, President of the National Center on Sexual Exploitation @NCOSE in Washington, DC. Together, they explore the deep…
My latest Op-Ed in @theblaze. Porn's dark empire is collapsing — here's how the fight is being won 💥 "Pornography is having a moment — and not in the way purveyors of pornography would like ... Cracks in the porn industry's exploitative foundation are widening, and it’s time…
Porn's dark empire is collapsing — here's how the fight is being won dlvr.it/TM11VB
“Window prostitution brothels in the Netherlands are disappearing, and there are now just around 1,000 red light work spaces in Dutch towns and cities, compared with 1,500 some 15 years ago.” dutchnews.nl/2025/07/turn-o…
My PhD thesis, "The Girlfriend Experience" as Political Consumerism: Empowered Servitude in the Sex Industry and the Expectations of Sex Buyers at an International Level, made the case that paying for sex is a deliberate political act & represents a form of political consumerism.
New episode out now! In episode 2 of our #MenForEquality series, host Sybil Jo @JoSybil63018 interviews Cristian Eduardo, a US-based survivor of labour and #sextrafficking. They discuss the unique experiences and risks of males in the #prostitution system, particularly when…
“women have become the locus of wealth extraction as the global capitalists have turned to mining women and girls’ bodies for the primitive accumulation of capital through the industrialisation of prostitution, porn, egg harvesting and surrogacy.”
“The aspiration to make “sex workers” safe is an oxymoron. Prostitution in all its forms is inherently dangerous and can never be brought into line with even the most basic health and safety guidelines.” Read more: nordicmodelnow.org/2021/04/28/wom…
New episode out tomorrow! In episode 2 of our #MenForEquality series, host Sybil Jo @JoSybil63018 interviews Cristian Eduardo, a US-based survivor of labour and sex trafficking. They discuss the unique experiences and risks of males in the #prostitution system, particularly when…