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Sex work is work...and that's the problem


Sex Work Resources - National Harm Reduction Coalition

Sex work is both a racial justice and a gender justice issue. Black and Latinx sex workers, trans sex workers, and especially Black/Latinx trans sex workers ...

Why does feminism have such a problem with sex work? - YouTube

Sex workers are tired of being spoken for. You're invited to listen to these voices from the sex worker community and consider why feminism ...

Is Sex Work an Expression of Women's Choice and Agency?

Sex work is not legitimate work or an expression of agency. It is a social issue which can be tackled through delegitimising consumers ...

Life After Sex Work - The Daily Beast

Whether sex workers love, hate, or feel ambivalent toward their job, most don't intend to work in the industry forever. But the complicated ...

The 'problem' with sex work - BA thesis, spring 2023

Previous research seemingly agrees on one thing: That the discourse prevalent in the international debate is that sex workers are victims of ...

Sex workers can tell you why sex work is work. Speak to them.

This may seem petty and unimportant but it's not. Language shapes thought. Drawing a line between 'sexual exploitation' and 'labour exploitation ...

What is the moral difference between sex work and other forms of ...

And I would argue that, because of the commodification of women's sexuality, society as a whole loses out from the very existence of ...

Sex work and health: a question of safety in the workplace - PubMed

Sex work is an occupation or trade involving exchange of sexual services for economic compensation. Although health problems associated with prostitution, ...

Sex Worker turned scholar- expelled? - The GradCafe Forums

... sex work and sex workers, that this wouldn't be an issue. But I also know that this is perhaps wishful thinking. School policies don't often ...

Invisible and stigmatized: A systematic review of mental health and ...

Due to exposure to work-related risks, sex workers (SWs) are vulnerable to developing health problems. However, little attention has been paid ...

A Feminist's Argument On How Sex Work Can Benefit Women

While many members of society view sex work as immoral and degrading to women, I argue that sex work is essentially just work, and that it is not necessarily ...

Decriminalizing Sex Work: Unpacking The Controversy

A key argument is that decriminalization would only make problems worse; that trafficking and prostitution are a form of violence against women, therefore ...

The sex work debate - International Socialism

It is argued here that understanding prostitution and the wider sex industry has to be rooted in understanding the specific oppression of women ...

Sex workers' rights | Amnesty International USA

More specifically, sex workers face barriers when it comes to exercising their rights to: privacy, bodily autonomy, freedom from violence or ...

The Mental Health Impacts of the Sex Trade - CAASE

... issues stemming from the trauma that's common in the sex trade ... Stay up to date on the issues impacting survivors, our work to stand ...

The dangers of rebranding prostitution as 'sex work' - The Guardian

In an extract from her new book, Pimp State, activist Kat Banyard argues that prostitution is sexual exploitation.

Who are Sex Workers

... labor rights advocates who address the issues relating ... workers on grounds that such policies would promote health and safety protections, allow labor.

Sex Work Has A Class Problem - BuzzFeed News

This will be a difficult thing to deconstruct and surpass, and while we're working on it, survival sex workers — those so impoverished that they ...

“I Can't Really Work Any 'Normal' Job:” Disability, Sexual Ableism ...

Research on sex work generally relies upon and proffers economically deterministic theories that show how whether, by choice or circumstance, people look to sex ...

Sex Work is a Disability Issue. So Why Doesn't ... - Rooted in Rights

In a Rewire.News piece from earlier this year, Cyrée Jarelle Johnson noted that disabled sex workers “experience poverty and job discrimination ...