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The laws regulating the sex industry are a mess – MPs are doing an important job examining them.
Just dirty and disorderly? Sex work has a more complex role in the community than is commonly portrayed.
When sociologists, driven by their value commitments, go beyond the relative comfort of the classroom and engage with organisations outside the university, they dirty their hands.
Empirical evidence and a recommendation from Amnesty International are making it increasingly difficult for naysayers to ignore the ways that sex workers are harmed by criminalization.
It might not surprise you that virtual reality is already being used for sex. But the diversity of virtual sex options might.
It’s been more than 40 years since a French sex workers strike kicked off a lively global human rights movement, but their legacy lives on.
Is the status quo really that bad? Our expert talks us through the arguments about the ‘oldest profession’.
Children who hawk goods on their heads on Nigeria’s streets face an array of health hazards and physical dangers. The government must take steps to reduce this practice.
Ignoring the protests of Hollywood actresses, Amnesty International has come out for the decriminalization of prostitution.
While being supported by many sex industry groups, feminists have labelled Amnesty International’s decriminalisation of prostitution a betrayal of women’s rights.
There is a wider social, economic and cultural context in which sex work occurs. The criminalisation of consensual adult sex work does not prevent violence – it exacerbates it.
Human trafficking is a major source of misery around the world. The absence of reliable statistics to determine its enormity has led to inflated guesstimates that harm efforts to combat the scourge.
The nordic model fails people who have limited options for sexual fulfillment.
What do Northern Ireland, France, Norway, Sweden and Iceland all have in common? They’ve already gone where Scotland is debating following.
Northern Ireland’s old sectarian divides aren’t as stark as they were – but old enemies are coming together in a war fought on sexual fronts.
The EU has demanded rapid payment of £1.7 billion from the UK because the economy has done better than predicted. Some of this is because the prostitution market is now considered as part of our national…
This week’s episode of ABC’s typically male-dominated show Q&A involved a panel of women who were speakers at Sydney’s Festival of Dangerous Ideas (FODI). While the show presented far more conservative…
Guo Meimei, a Chinese internet celebrity, was recently arrested for involvement in illegal gambling and the sex trade. In China she was a star, well known for her flashy lifestyle. She later appeared on…
To paraphrase The Wire’s Stringer Bell: “Product, my dear colleagues. Product”. When the putative “CEO” of the Barksdale drug gang was referring to “product”, he possibly wasn’t thinking of the “gross…
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Interim Director, UWA Public Policy Institute; Associate Professor & Programme Co-ordinator (Masters of Public Policy), The University of Western Australia
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Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Richmond
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Research Fellow at the Living with Disability Reasearch Centre, La Trobe University
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Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, Queen's University, Ontario
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Senior lecturer, La Trobe University
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Professor, Queen's University Belfast
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Associate Professor, Cultural Studies; Gender, Women, & Sexuality Studies, University of Washington, Bothell
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Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Central Lancashire
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Honorary Professor, The University of Queensland
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Professor in Criminology, University of Leicester
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Senior Research Fellow, Monash University
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Associate Professor, School of Public Health, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Sociology, University of Nottingham
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Associate Professor in Public Health Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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Professor, School of Sociology; Geary Fellow, Geary Institute for Public Policy, University College Dublin
