Peter Qualliotine
Co-Founder and Director, Modeling Equality
Peter Qualliotine has worked to promote men’s accountability and end commercial sexual exploitation and other forms of gender-based violence for over thirty years. In the early 1990s, he co-founded the Sexual Exploitation Education Project in Portland, Oregon, one of the first sex buyers intervention programs in the country. During that time, he also worked with the Portland Women's Crisis Line to integrate the issue of commercial sexual exploitation into a comprehensive middle and high school program to prevent gender-based violence. In 2012, he co-founded Organization for Prostitution Survivors (OPS). As OPS’ Director of Men’s Accountability, he thereafter launched a 10-week sex buyers intervention program, Stopping Sexual Exploitation, and co-coordinated the King County Ending Exploitation Collaborative. Today, Mr. Qualliotine resides in Massachusetts and serves as Coordinator for Modeling Equality, a project funded by the NoVo Foundation to create and implement policies and practices across multiple sectors that address commercial sexual exploitation through an Equality Model framework.
“Prostitution, like intimate partner violence, sexual assault, sexual harassment, and stalking, indicate a problem with men and the toxic masculinity we are taught to embody. To end it, each of us must find the courage to step into a fuller humanity that is relational and based on respect, empathy, mutuality and equality for all.”
