Sarah Elspeth Patterson

Sarah Elspeth Patterson

Sarah Elspeth Patterson is a freelance writer and community organizer with the Sex Workers Outreach Project of New York City. She works as a sexuality educator/trainer, teaching teens in the Bronx, Brooklyn and Manhattan. She is a regular contributor to MySexProfessor.com, run by Dr. Debby Herbenick of the Kinsey Institute. She previously worked as the Online Blog Editor for Babeland, the feminist, sex-positive adult toy company. Sarah was also a media columnist and staff writer for the Utne Reader award-winning $pread Magazine, the sex worker advocacy publication. She holds a Masters in Human Sexuality Education from Widener University and lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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Rough Summer in the City: Recent Rape Cases and the NYC Rape Shield Law

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by Sarah Elspeth Patterson

August 25, 2011 - 2:00pm (Print)

The dropping of charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn marks the end to a case that has amounted to little more than a character assassination of a rape complainant who has endured a litany of shame-driven media accusations

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