About Us:

The Erotic Service Provider Legal Education and Research Project

This report was produced by ESPLER Project, Inc. (ESPLER), a California-based advocacy nonprofit. The main issue addressed by ESPLER is decriminalization of sex work. To achieve this end, ESPLER’s day-to-day work advances worker rights, consumer privacy rights, and sexual privacy rights. We educate erotic service providers, policy makers, and the public through coordinated outreach, research, and legal advocacy.

In 2017, ESPLER brought ESPLERP v Gascón [16-15927], a constitutional challenge to California’s anti-solicitation for prostitution law known as Penal Code 647(b) PC to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. The Gascón case argued that criminalizing sex work violates consumers and the sellers right to sexual privacy, based on the groundbreaking 2003 Lawrence v. Texas case, which acknowledged the right to sexual privacy for sexual relations between people of the same sex, thereby decriminalizing homosexuality.

Learn more at esplerp.org