The study shows the negative effects of sex work’s criminalisation, including a reluctance of workers to go to police and clients using it as an excuse to abuse workers.
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“Gritty,” “authentic” are words of praise often used for TV director David Simon: No less so with The Deuce, his new series about the rise of the porn industry in New York City in the 1970s.
Sex workers shouldn’t be victims of violent crime and murder at work – and yet they continue to face daily dangers.
Stigma continues to inform legal, social and cultural attitudes towards sex work and remains a barrier to health, human rights and justice. Developing stigma indicators is one step towards change.
Despite the rise of feminism, strip clubs and other ‘sexual entertainment’ businesses have proliferated in our cities. And women are feeling the harmful impacts of the industry’s presence.
The sex industry doesn’t need your admiration, but nor does it deserve your condemnation.
The car, the phone and the internet have changed the way the sex work industry operates, but debates about regulation have not advanced with new technologies.
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.
Consensual sex work, like non-commercial sex, mostly happens behind closed doors. Yet stigma toward and ignorance about sex workers makes people panic when we try to talk about reform.
Understanding laws that govern sex work can be complicated and confusing, especially because laws are not uniform globally, or even within each country.
July 30 marks the United Nations’ World Day Against Trafficking in Persons. How can computer scientists help combat this problem?
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.
Rio’s sex workers were hoping the 2016 games would also boost their trade – but they were wrong.
Nigerian women migrating to Europe are increasingly aware that work hidden in the form of menial jobs is actually sex work, even though they cannot imagine the brutality that comes with it.
The German Green Party has proposed that the disabled should be able to claim back money spent on sex on medical grounds.
Governments and campaigners are keeping schtum when it comes to webcamming. It’s time to break the silence.
The narrative in Israel about whether men should be able to pay women for sex is changing.
Two criminologists wanted to learn the tricks of the trade so they went to the source, interviewing over 70 pimps.
The laws regulating the sex industry are a mess – MPs are doing an important job examining them.
Mobility is not only a risk factor for HIV – it is also a structural determinant in how HIV responses are designed and implemented.
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