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Sex Is Not the Problem with Sex Work


Sex Is Not the Problem with Sex Work - Boston Review

People often think that selling sex must be a horrible job, and many sex workers would agree. However, these sex workers may locate the problem not in sex but ...

What is wrong with sex work? : r/CriticalTheory - Reddit

There's nothing necessarily wrong with sex, even transactional sex, but both can take place in contexts which create problems with them, and the ...

The problem with the phrase “sex work is work” - Proletarian Feminist

Prostitution is sexual exploitation because it feeds off of extreme vulnerability to maintain a class of prostitutes, coerces sex through money ...

The Problem With (Sex) Work - Jacobin

Not only does sex work destabilize the work ideology, it also conflicts with a bourgeois ideal of private, monogamous sexuality that also ...

Sex worker criminalization in the United States: A landscape ...

Sex workers face a variety of health risks from discrimination in laws, law enforcement and healthcare access.

'Sex Work' Is Not Work | Catholic Answers Magazine

'Sex Work' Is Not Work · Proponents of prostitution harm women, men, and the culture by treating it as just another occupation. · More from the ...

Sex Work is Not the Same as Sexual Exploitation - The Independent

As someone who has worked freely as a sex worker and someone who has experienced sexual exploitation, I can say unequivocally: the two are not the same.

Words matter: the problem with the term “sex work” - Demand Abolition

“Prostitution is not 'sex' and it is not 'work.' It is a harmful practice steeped in gender and economic inequalities that leaves a ...

What do you think about sex work? - Quora

Sex work has played derogatory roles against [achieving] mentally healthy sexual relationships between men and women.

Sex Work: The choice made by those who have no choice?

Legalisation of sex work sends a message to society that women are a tool for sexual pleasure. If prostitution is 'work', are women's bodies a ...

There is no feminist war on sex workers

Not all people who do sex work are women, but women disproportionately suffer the stigma, discrimination, and violence against sex workers. The ...

Sex Work Is Not Liberating - The Gazelle

Sex work is not glamorous. It is not liberating, and often it is not consensual. Blanketing it as such not only disguises the issues plaguing the industry.

The false feminism of criminalising sex workers' clients

Sex workers fight daily battles to defend our rights. The illegality of sex work isn't a hypothetical 'debate' for us. It is our reality.

Media Must Stop Using the Term "Sex Work" - CSE Institute

Media Must Stop Using the Term “Sex Work”: It Inappropriately Legitimizes an Industry Sustained by Gender-Based Violence ... The phrases “sex work ...

Why Prostitution is Not "Sex Work" - NCOSE

Why Prostitution is Not “Sex Work” · Prostitution is neither sex nor work. · We must hold firm the distinction between sex and sexual abuse, and ...

It's Not About Sex | Molly Crabapple | The New York Review of Books

... work they never before would have considered. Mac and Smith delineate the problems of sex workers in all their prosaic complexity. “A sex worker ...

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

Institutional punishment such as incarceration, and discriminatory policies in health care interfere with attempts to solve current health issues—such as the ...

Unpacking harmful myths around sex work - The Equality Institute

1. Sex work is an act of gender-based violence by men towards women. This myth perpetuates harmful stereotypes that sex workers (and women) are victims.

The reality of prostitution is not complex. It is simple | Psyche Ideas

The truth is, there was no 'work' involved in what was done to us in prostitution. Prostitution is neither sex nor work. Sex does not just ...

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

He claims: “Not only does sex work destabilise the work ideology, it also conflicts with a bourgeois ideal of private, monogamous sexuality.” ...