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It's Time We Acknowledge the Fact That Sex Work Is Real Work


Patterns and Epidemiology of Illicit Drug Use Among Sex Workers ...

... to eventually find a full-time job working with LGBT youth. ... By overlooking the diversity of experiences of people who do sex work, a huge swathe (in fact, ...

Prostitution: Key Facts and Analysis, in Brief

Nationally, about 16% of all adult men acknowledge having at one time paid for sex with women. It is estimated that there are perhaps 10-15 ...

Capitalism, feminism, and sex work - The Independent

This is true whether a sex worker is doing it 100 percent by choice, because of economic or time based pressure (sex work by necessity), or ...

Sex Trafficking Survivor Says It's Time to Stop Glamorizing Prostitution

If only the entertainment industry could tell the real story and maybe someday they ... Rebecca Bender is a nationally recognized and awarded ...

So, How's That 'Nordic Model' Working Out?

List of intervenors in constitutional challenge to Canadian prostitution laws. Source: CASWLR. The CASWLR acknowledges its goal—to convince the ...

Sex Work and the Spectrum of Coercion - Liberal Currents

The fact is that the real difference between badgering someone for sex ... ” I personally know a full-time, full-service sex worker who ...

Who are Sex Workers

Similarly, the conflation of sex work (a commercial exchange of sexual services) with human trafficking (coercion into forced labor of all kinds) harms both the ...

Sex Work through the Lenses of History, Feminism, and Sociology

Many of the citizens fought (unsuccessfully) to keep the brothels, seeing them as an important part of their history and the women as a valuable ...

The Consequences of Misinformation about Sex Work and Sex ...

Misinformation about sex work and sex workers has long served as a tool for politicians, religious leaders, fundamental feminists and abolitionist groups, ...

Doesn't the fact that prostitution is illegal imply that pleasure is not a ...

Perhaps this is because our society has a deontological system of values? In a utilitarian standpoint wouldn't it not only be moral to make prostitution legal ...

The New Majority Behind Sex Work Decriminalization - Ro Khanna

When people have a real chance to say what kind of world they want, they tend to tell similar stories: safety for themselves and their ...

Let's Talk About Sex (Work): The Irony of Partial Decriminalization of ...

In fact, a recent national poll conducted by Data for Progress found ... It's Time for New York State to Enact the Sex Trade Survivors ...

It's time students told pro-sex trade academics: #TimesUp

When I began university as an undergraduate, in 2003, I was far from calling myself a feminist. Like many New Zealand school leavers, ...

Stigma and stereotypes about sex work hinder regulatory reform

It is important to acknowledge that people do in fact choose to do sex work. ... Time to decriminalise consensual sex work. Consensual sex ...

What if sex work was just work?

A trip to the Australian state of New South Wales (the only location to have decriminalized sex work at that time) in 1988 provided the inspiration and the ...

Prostitution | Definition, History, & Facts - Britannica

... a booming business for purveyors of the sex trade. Victims of sexual ... they are being relocated to work in legitimate forms of employment.

How Sex Work Exposed My White Privilege - the whorticulturalist

In fact, my personal experience as a white sex worker, witnessing and ... I was writing a novel at the time, and without my consciously ...

Libertarianism and Sex Work- Continuing the Conversation

A lot of the "evidence" for the patriarchy is largely or entirely nonsense: the pay gap for example. Also important is the fact that the ...

How I Handle My Finances: A Sex Worker's Perspective - Girlboss

... work as legitimate work, and the fact that it can be very difficult to operate in the system. In South Australia, where sex work is illegal ...

Cash/Consent | Issue 35 | n+1 | Lorelei Lee

It was a move that, eventually, saved my life. I didn't know it at the time, but that fall my body was the site of international debate about sex, work, ...