Melissa Farley was born on 1942 and is an American clinical psychologist, researcher and radical feminist anti-pornography and anti-prostitution activist.
13 Facts About Melissa Farley
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Melissa Farley is the founder and director of the San Francisco-based organization, Prostitution Research and Education.
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Melissa Farley has been a faculty member of the Center for World Indigenous Studies and has taught seminars on research for social change at the CWIS in Yelapa, Mexico.
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Melissa Farley's research has been used by governments in South Africa, Canada, France, New Zealand, Ghana, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States to craft policy on prostitution and human trafficking.
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Since 1993, Melissa Farley has researched prostitution and trafficking in 14 countries.
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Weitzer has said that Melissa Farley's findings are heavily influenced by radical feminist ideology.
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Melissa Farley is the founder and director of Prostitution Research and Education, a San Francisco-based 501 organization.
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An anti-pornography activist, in 1985 Melissa Farley led a National Rampage Against Penthouse with Nikki Craft.
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Melissa Farley was arrested 13 times in nine states for her actions.
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Melissa Farley participated in a 1984 protest in Iowa as part of the group Women Rising in Resistance.
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Winn told Beyer orally that Melissa Farley had paid some of the interview subjects, saying that Melissa Farley had made false claims on New Zealand television about her findings.
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In 2008, Melissa Farley published a critique of the Report of New Zealand Prostitution Law Review Committee on her website, leading to Dr Calum Bennachie, PhD, filing a formal complaint with the American Psychological Association to remove her from its membership.
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Melissa Farley's evidence was criticized by presiding judge Susan Himel in her September 2010 conclusion:.