Erotic Service Providers Legal, Education, and Research Project, Inc

ESPLER Project, Inc. is a nationally recognized sex work advocacy nonprofit with impact litigation experience benefiting our country and a community of second-class citizens who don’t have the resources to do defend their constitutional rights. 

To achieve the decriminalization of sex work, ESPLER’s day-to-day work advances worker rights, consumer privacy rights, and sexual privacy rights. We educate erotic service providers, policymakers, and the public through funded, coordinated outreach, research, and legal advocacy. In addition to scheduled annual sex worker training and street actions, ESPLER also plans strategic actions in direct response to breaking news.

In 2024, a two-year grant-funded ESPLER Project investigation produced a report on how law enforcement’s pervasive use of data scraping and other technological surveillance to arrest people involved in transactional sex also systematically violates the civil liberties and privacy rights of Californians. This surveillance frequently takes place outside of laws specifically designed to limit such activities. 

The Super Bowl’s annually revived sex trafficking myth presents a highly concentrated example of how disinformation, combined with stigma, leads to the criminalization, arrests, and incarceration of sex workers. Stop the Raids, ESPLER's annual constituent-led, base-building, direct-action organizing campaign for systemic change, mobilizes 100 sex workers and allies around the decriminalization of sex work through online and in-person training in media security, social media for action, and direct action signage, leading, next year, to direct action that educates the public, media, and policy makers about decriminalization at Super Bowl LXI in New Orleans, Louisiana.