Dearest TER Reviewers and Readers,
The time has come. No one can effect change the way you can. Only you can prevent SESTA from flattening the escorting industry. Without your help, it will become nearly impossible to enjoy your current experience.
SESTA is a bill that, if passed would make escorts harder to find online - do you really want to go fishing at hotel bars rather than the comfort of your cell phone or laptop?
Escorts will become more isolated - do you really want the service provider delivering you consensual services to be starved for community and support?
Escorts will be in more danger - do you really want your ATF to fear her new clients, carry a weapon to protect herself, and depend much more on you, a safe nice regular, to sustain her business?  
While the freedom of your favorite service providers is at risk, you clients and reviewers stand to lose the most.  
If variety is what you seek, you must protect that freedom.
If safe hobbying conditions is what you seek, you must protect that freedom.
If we've already convinced you, go to this link to find your senator’s phone number and use the graphic below.  
 
If you want more details, please keep reading.  
This bill, SESTA, amends the Communications Act of 1934 to make everything we do online impossible. It's a really scary bill, and a major impediment to free speech online.
SESTA would immediately endanger the lives of the most at-risk sex workers and trafficking victims in the most immediate way. Without the internet, our best tools for working and playing safely will be gone. Law enforcement’s best tool for finding trafficking victims will be gone. It would make it illegal for providers to warn each other about dangerous clients — like those who carry weapons - and it would make it illegal for us to talk to each other over the internet, increasing our isolation. It would make it illegal to reach out to those of us who are suffering. It would drive us underground and out onto the streets. There will be deaths. There will be suicides.  
Basic harm reduction and anti-violence work will become a federal crime punishable by up to 10 years in prison. Sites like Backpage already cooperate with trafficking investigations, but if this bill passes, traffickers will move their activities to the streets and to non-US hosted sites, making it even more difficult to find and protect trafficking victims. SESTA further pushes sex work underground, doing nothing to address the conditions that make people vulnerable in the first place. Sex workers, activists, clients, and allies are all put at further legal risk under this bill.  
   
With heartfelt thanks,  
Ernestine Pastorello & Chloë Boulez