If sex workers have to pay taxes and have all the other burdens of business and employment, then surely their contracts must be honoured as well.
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Interviews with religious and spiritual sex workers examine how these seemingly opposite life choices can interconnect and coexist.
The repeal of outdated apartheid-era laws would have a far-reaching, positive impact on individual sex workers’ health and well-being.
‘They went through my bins, they checked me for track marks. They made remarks to each other whether I was worth my advertised rate in front of me.’
Full decriminalisation of sex work is advocated by many health and human rights organisations around the world. Sex workers in New South Wales kick-started the process 40 years ago.
South Africa has launched a plan to tackle HIV, TB and sexually transmitted infections – but much depends on its implementation over the next five years.
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Senior Lecturer in Journalism, University of Technology Sydney
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Anthropology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Research fellow, African Centre for Migration & Society, University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior Research Associate in Sexual and Reproductive health, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Professor of Women's Studies and Political Studies, Mount Saint Vincent University
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Associate Professor of Sociology, Nottingham Trent University
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Consent and Body Safety Educator, Flinders University
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Associate researcher, University of York; Nottingham Trent University