Members of the Kenya Sex Workers Alliance protest in Nairobi against arbitrary arrests.
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Sex workers have a deep understanding of their needs but development partnerships tend to prioritise scientific knowledge.
No choice, no voice.
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In early 2023 the evidence threshold for making complaints about modern slavery increased. New findings show how it has affected victims’ chances of success.
Sex workers and their supporters gather outside the Ontario Superior Court during the launch of their constitutional challenge to Canada’s sex work laws, on Oct. 3, 2022.
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Laws regarding sex work should not be legislated based on personal moral beliefs. They should prioritize the safety of sex workers and their clients.
Anders Hayward and Conleth Hill in Adults.
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Kieran Hurley’s new play treads the familiar debate of millennial precarity versus boomer affluence with verve and insight.
Being in a legal grey area means sex workers are at a disadvantage when they have been the victim of a crime or defrauded.
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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.
A demonstrator at Queer Republic protests in Nairobi, Kenya.
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A backlash against progress in gender and sexual rights is common.
Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino speaks during a news conference on the government’s plan to enable expungements for convictions under the Criminal Code for bawdy house, indecency-based and abortion-related offences in Ottawa in March 2023.
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Experts on the history of sexuality in Canada say recent changes to the Expungement Act don’t go far enough, and they urge Canadians to reject attempts to divide marginalized communities.
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Interviews with religious and spiritual sex workers examine how these seemingly opposite life choices can interconnect and coexist.
Members of the African Christian Democratic Party protesting against the decriminalisation of sex work in South Africa.
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The repeal of outdated apartheid-era laws would have a far-reaching, positive impact on individual sex workers’ health and well-being.
Margot, played by Anya Taylor-Joy, is important because viewers without much experience with fine dining culture, or who empathize with criticisms of it, can relate to her.
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The Menu’s real horror comes from the ways food, eating, and cooking lose their carnal pleasures under capitalism.
Activists hold placards as they call for the decriminalisation of prostitution.
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Regulating the sex work industry is the only way to protect sex workers from abuse and violence.
Globally, sex workers have been left to fend for themselves during the pandemic with little to no support from the government.
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Societally, we need to recognize that sex workers have agency and deserve the same respect, dignity and aid as any other person selling their labour.
Members of the Association of Transgender and Hijra at Bengal light a lamp to mark Transgender Day of Bengal in Kolkata, India, in 2017.
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A sociologist explains that the ability to claim transgender identities in India may appear progressive, but this can further marginalize historically stigmatized gender-nonconforming groups.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro gives a press conference in January 2022.
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Until Bolsonaro’s election win, sex workers had been gaining rights. His ultra-far-right, homophobic, racist and mysoginistic views have made the reality much worse.
Financial strain exacerbated by the pandemic could be driving increased student sex work, whether through apps like OnlyFans or other platforms and avenues.
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Higher education institutions should also consider how to respond should sex work take place on campus, such as in a residence.
Feminist queer filmmaker Lizzie Borden’s 1986 indie hit has been re-released by the Criterion Collection.
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The timely re-release of ‘Working Girls’ by Lizzie Borden brings sex work into the public eye as activists in Canada prepare for another Supreme Court challenge to laws criminalizing commercial sex.
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Strip away the sexy marketing and what you have is just another digital platform shifting legal responsibilities and risks.
A billboard in Mounds View, Minnesota, put up by the nonprofit National Human Trafficking Resource Center.
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Children are not routinely being snatched from pizza parlors and sold into sexual slavery. Sex trafficking more often looks like ‘vulnerable people struggling to survive’ through sex.
Supporters of sex workers’ rights marched in Las Vegas in 2019.
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More people are getting involved in sex work, especially online – and it can be a lifeline for marginalized people.
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New research into sex work in the UK highlights some of the changes and challenges sex workers have faced.