NEW YORK – After a New York chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW-NYC) threatened to stage a protest outside the publication, New York magazine has agreed to stop accepting and printing classified sex ads in the back of its issues of the weekly NYC lifestyle magazine.
According to the Associated Press, NOW-NYC called the magazine a “marketing arm of the organized crime world of prostitution and human trafficking” because of classified ads with tag lines such as “Asians Gone Wild” and “Asian Dreamgirls.”
The classified ads span an average of two pages in each issue, and NOW-NYC claimed that New York was making around $10,000 a week from the ads.
NOW-NYC has staged similar protests against other New York media organizations, and won similar agreements with 14 publications.
"It's just the right the thing to do,” New York Magazine spokeswoman Serena Torrey told the AP. “The magazine is really prospering now and it's finally time to get out of a business that we were never comfortable being in.”
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