genderberg.com

One of my dearest friends is a woman who sells real estate in NYC and she has a New York Magazine subscription for the real estate ads, but I always hated the prostitution ads in the back. I'm going to call her tonight and share the happy news.

I might just renew my membership to NOW for the next year. Last year I was a member was 2004 when they supported Carol Mosely Braun for president. If you want to contact the magazine to say thanks:

call 800-678-0900
email http://nymag.com/contactus/


No More Sex Ads in New York Magazine
WNYC Newsroom

http://www.wnyc.org/news/articles/88481

NEW YORK, NY November 07, 2007 —New York Magazine will stop printing sex ads. This, after the local chapter of the National Organization for Women threatened protests outside the weekly publication.

REPORTER: The women's rights group had accused the magazine of being a "marketing arm of the organized crime world of prostitution and human trafficking." NOW President Sonia Ossorio says the publisher was open to changing the advertising practices.

OSSORIO: They didn't really like being in that business. And particularly now with the connection between trafficking and the prostitution market.

REPORTER: A New York Magazine spokeswoman declined to say whether NOW's pressure tactics influenced the decision, adding it was just the right the thing to do. Ossorio says The Village Voice and ethnic newspapers like The World Journal have resisted NOW's efforts to stop the sex ads.

more info

http://www.iht.com
/articles/ap/2007/11/06/business/NA-GEN-US-Magazine-Sex-Ads.php

New York Magazine drops sex ads after group threatens protest
The Associated Press

NEW YORK: New York Magazine agreed Tuesday to stop accepting sex ads after the local chapter of a women's rights group threatened protests outside the popular weekly publication.

The National Organization for Women had accused New York of being a "marketing arm of the organized crime world of prostitution and human trafficking" because of classified ads at the back of the magazine with such tag lines as "Asians Gone Wild" and "Asian Dreamgirls."

Sonia Ossorio, president of the local NOW chapter, said she was "delighted" at the magazine's decision.

NOW-NYC had sent out a news release Tuesday morning announcing plans to stage a protest outside the magazine's offices Thursday over the sex ads.

The chapter has been asking other local media to stop taking the salacious ads and said it has won agreements to do so from 14 other publications including Time Out New York and New York Press.

Ossorio said she met with New York's publisher Tuesday and learned the magazine would stop running the ads, which span two pages in the latest issue.

Magazine spokeswoman Serena Torrey confirmed the decision but declined to say whether NOW's pressure tactics had influenced New York's decision. "It's just the right the thing to do," she said.

Torrey said the magazine had been looking to eliminate the ads for some time.

"The magazine is really prospering now and it's finally time to get out of a business that we were never comfortable being in," she said.

According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, New York's circulation for the six months ending June 30 was approximately 429,000.

Ossorio says The Village Voice and ethnic newspapers such as the World Journal have resisted her group's efforts to put a stop to the sex ads.

In its latest issue, The Village Voice has nearly a dozen pages of lascivious ads covering everything from "Beautiful Latin Babes" to "Asian Party Girls."

Taina Bien-Aimé, executive director of Equality Now, an international women's rights organization, said her group has joined NOW's campaign.

"What we believe and know is that a lot of these advertisements are covers for what can be dens for human trafficking," she said. "Turning a blind eye to that is a danger, and a reputable corporation should not be part of illegal enterprises."

NOW-NYC claims that New York makes $10,000 (€6,874) a week running the ads; New York declined to comment on its ad revenue.

New York magazine is part of New York Media Holdings LLC, which is owned by Lazard Ltd. chief executive Bruce Wasserstein.

What bluecoat28 said.

Yeah, what is this, Bluecoat28? What are these above?

MaggieH, when you hit "reply", and click on "view more emoticons", you'll see the rest of them.

OK, Thanks.

With the locus of mainstream blog feminism somewhat centered in New York (I believe Feministing and Feministe and Majikthise are all primarily NYC-based), how is it that news of this successful NOW and Equality NOW campaign based in New York has gone utterly without mention or editorial comment?

All I can think is maybe they think the removal of prostitution ads is a bad thing because they believe having women for sale in newspapers and magazines is actually good for the women who they call sex workers. After all, they did loudly reject an attempt to regulate stripping by having strippers get permits to prove they're not underage or trafficked, so maybe they think NOW and Equality Now have set sex workers' rights back with this victory but lack the courage to openly say so.

Just hypothesizing about the silence surrounding this very bold, very New York-based feminist action.

That is so great that NY NOW put pressure on The New York and other big "liberal" publications to stop aiding human trafficking and the exploitation of women. I am an active memember of NOW and will tell what the NY group did to anyone in my group who says NOW supports prostitution and porn.

I called The New York to thank them!