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.
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Why are sex workers routinely excluded from debates on their own legal and human rights?
More people are getting involved in sex work, especially online – and it can be a lifeline for marginalized people.
New research into sex work in the UK highlights some of the changes and challenges sex workers have faced.
Work in the sexual services industry has been disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic and workers have been left without access to government support.
After a change in the law which criminalises the purchase of sexual services, the French government is willing to help only those who wish to exit prostitution for good.
Citizens-watch programs designed by police to aid anti-trafficking efforts threaten the rights and safety of sex workers.
‘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.’
If India really wants to stop sex trafficking, legislators might consider asking sex workers in Kolkata how they keep the Sonagachi red light district safe and exploitation-free.
The opinions of current sex workers must be sought before any changes are made to the law governing the websites they use.
The HIV epidemic is far from over and it’s not time to disengage, says International Aids Society President Linda-Gail Bekker.
Sex work using the internet is safer for sex workers and easier to police – why would MPs want to change that?
No one legal ‘solution’ is right for all sex workers.
It’s all too easy to miss the point about sex work in areas hit by conflict and disaster. How about listening to the people who experience it?
Zimbabwe’s new president, Emmerson Mnagagwga has offered a glimmer of hope to LGBT people in the country.
A unified voice that gets heard.
South Africa’s data rollout of its pre-exposure prophylaxis shows that there is a relatively slow, but increasing, uptake. However, more needs to be done to target young women.
“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.
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.
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Professor of Women's Studies and Political Studies, Mount Saint Vincent University
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Adjunct professor, Carleton University
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Research Associate, King's College London
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Associate Professor, Cultural Studies; Gender, Women, & Sexuality Studies, University of Washington, Bothell
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Professor, Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of Calgary
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Assistant Professor, School of Kinesiology and Health Science, York University, Canada
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Professor of Sport and Social Sciences, Bournemouth University
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Knowledge Exchange Fellow/Project Lead, University of Strathclyde
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Senior Research Fellow, Monash University
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Professor of Political Science and Chair of the South African Research Initiative in Gender Politics, Stellenbosch University
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Lecturer in Criminology, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Central Lancashire
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Associate Professor and Director: Research at the Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute I, University of the Witwatersrand
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Director of Implementation Science, Wits Reproductive Health & HIV Institute, University of the Witwatersrand
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Reader in Psychology and Social Policy, Birkbeck, University of London
