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Sex worker criminalization in the United States


The New Majority Behind Sex Work Decriminalization - Ro Khanna

But Congress has passed a significant number of laws over the last 20 years of the so-called War on Human Trafficking that further criminalize ...

Decriminalizing Sex Work: Unpacking The Controversy

It also increases the likelihood of the survivor facing charges as it is still criminalized across many countries. This can give traffickers a safety net ...

American Sex Workers Unite to End Criminalization of Prostitution

SWOP, USA: "As a sex worker, under criminalization, my rights are violated every day, not just my labor rights and legal rights, but most importantly my ...

US Federal and State Prostitution Laws and Related Punishments

Prostitution is illegal in the United States with the exception of 10 Nevada counties. On Nov. 3, 2009, Rhode Island closed a legal loophole.

Why some advocates are pushing back against decriminalization in ...

There is a major effort to decriminalize sex work in the U.S. But not all current or former sex workers share the same goals.

Sex-Work Prohibition in America - Wasatch Defense Lawyers

539 U.S. 558 (2003). Sex is a constitutional right. However, consenting adults generally may not enter into a legal contract for commercial sex-work, except for ...

what female sex workers say in San Francisco, USA - ScienceDirect

Sex work is a criminal offence in San Francisco, USA, and sex work advocates have so far unsuccessfully campaigned for decriminalizing it.

Decreasing Human Trafficking through Sex Work Decriminalization

Decriminalization of the sex trade speaks to medical ethics by reducing sex workers' vulnerability to violence, exploitation, stigma, and trafficking.

The Connection Between the Drug War and Criminalization of Sex ...

People who use drugs and those engaged in sex work can face similar challenges—stigma, denial of health care, the risk of experiencing violence ...

The Case for Decriminalizing Sex Work - Progressive.org

The World Health Organization recognizes the criminalization of sex work as a health threat as well, noting that decriminalization and other ...

Sex Workers' Rights, Advocacy, and Organizing

Massage spas are stigmatized and criminalized throughout the United States based on the assumptions that they are places where one can receive sexual ...

Decriminalizing sex work will help marginalized communities

Sexual assault and sex trafficking are and should continue to be illegal and prosecuted. But opponents of the decriminalization of sex work ...

Decriminalization by any other name: sex worker rights in federal ...

Under the US's legal structure, direct criminalization of the exchange of sexual services for resources happens at the state level and is ...

Claims of protecting sex workers have long been used to punish them

Rather than eliminating prostitution, the anti-prostitution movement simply changed the nature of the sex trade in early 20th-century America.

Prostitution control in America: Rethinking public policy - SpringerLink

Marshall, Survival Sex in King County: Helping Women Out, Report submitted to the King County Women's Advisory Board, March 1993. Braithwaite, J., Crime, Shame, ...

The Model Penal Code & Sex Work Criminalization

Chacon, Misery and Mypoia: Understanding the Failures of U.S. Efforts to Stop Human Trafficking, 74 FORDHAM L. REV. 2977, 3014–15 (2006) (criticizing broadly ...

HRC | Beyond the Stereotypes: A Deep Dive Into Sex Work

The criminalization of sex work is rooted in stigmatization and a sex shaming culture. ... The prevalence of HIV in sex workers is 12x that of the average ...

Sex work community participation in criminalized environments

Sex work criminalization and occupational stigma pose barriers to sex workers' access to support services, including community participation ...

Sex Work Decriminalization

Workers at Risk: Condoms as Evidence of Prostitution in Four US. Cities,” that police and prosecutors used a sex worker's possession of condoms as evidence ...

States Try to Reform Prostitution Laws — for Better and Worse

"Criminalization drives sex work into the shadows in an underground illegal environment where sex workers face increased violence, abuse, and ...