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Queering Sex Work and Mobility

Anti-Trafficking Review, 2022
This paper explores the intersections of sex work, mobility, and gendered sexualities through a queer lens. It is based on a study that made use of digital storytelling and WhatsApp to engage 17 migrant and mobile sex workers in South Africa.
Ntokozo Yingwana
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Queer Theory, Sex Work, and Foucault’s Unreason [PDF]

Foucault Studies, 2017
During the late nineties, leading voices of the sex worker rights movement began to publicly question queer theory’s virtual silence on the subject of prostitution and sex work.
Brooke M. Beloso
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Crossroads of choice: a qualitative study of the factors influencing decisions to transition from sex work among women engaged in sex work in Southern Uganda [PDF]

BMC Women's Health
Background Women engaged in commercial sex work (WESW) are exposed to behavioral, biological, and structural factors that exacerbate their risk of HIV infection and other sexually transmitted infections.
Jennifer Nattabi, Ozge Sensoy Bahar, Josephine Nabayinda, Proscovia Nabunya, Joshua Kiyingi, Samuel Kizito, Flavia Namuwonge, Edward Nsubuga, Susan S. Witte, Fred M. Ssewamala   +9 more
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Change of legal status of sex work in Ukraine: public opinion, opinion of sex workers (sociological perspective) [PDF]

Український соціум, 2020
The concepts of “decriminalization” and “legalization” of sex work are defined. Based on a sociological study, the attitudes of the Ukrainian public and sex workers to the potential change in the legal status of sex services in Ukraine is characterized ...
Pyvovarova N. P., Artiukh O. R.
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Association between sex work occupational stigma and inconsistent condom use: findings from a community-based cohort of women sex workers in Vancouver, Canada (2014-2022). [PDF]

J Epidemiol Community Health
Kielhold K, Shannon K, Krüsi A, Valencia E, Pearson J, Goldenberg SM.   +5 more
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“Every day I grew stronger and stronger being there”.: empowerment through land-and art-based Peer Leader retreats with Indigenous and Northern young people

International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 2022
Indigenous adolescents in Canada are among those shouldering the impacts of colonialism and racism. Peer approaches and art-and-land-based programming have demonstrated promise to support empowerment and well-being, yet little is known about their ...
Lesley Gittings, Kalonde Malama, Carmen H. Logie, Candice L. Lys, Shira B. Taylor, Kayley Inuksuk Mackay, Amanda Kanbari, Samantha Parker, Clara McNamee   +8 more
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The Lived Experiences of Male Sex Workers: A Global Qualitative Meta-Synthesis

Sexes, 2023
The sex industry literature predominantly focuses on the lived experiences of cisgender female sex workers, their customers, and work dynamics. Recently, there has been a shift in the discourse regarding sex work as the sex industry has been openly ...
Michael G. Curtis, Joshua L. Boe
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Sex for seniors: how physicians discuss older adult’s sexuality

Israel Journal of Health Policy Research, 2020
Background This study examined physicians’ perspectives on sexuality in later life. Methods In-depth interviews were conducted among 38 physicians with various specialties and they were asked to discuss sexuality in later life within the medical context.
Ateret Gewirtz-Meydan, Inbar Levkovich, Moshe Mock, Uri Gur, Khaled Karkabi, Liat Ayalon   +5 more
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Unfinished Decriminalization: The Impact of Section 19 of the Prostitution Reform Act 2003 on Migrant Sex Workers’ Rights and Lives in Aotearoa New Zealand

Social Sciences, 2021
In 2003, Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) passed the Prostitution Reform Act 2003 (PRA), which decriminalized sex work for NZ citizens and holders of permanent residency (PR) while excluding migrant sex workers (MSWs) from its protection. This is due to Section
Calum Bennachie, Annah Pickering, Jenny Lee, P. G. Macioti, Nicola Mai, Anne E. Fehrenbacher, Calogero Giametta, Heidi Hoefinger, Jennifer Musto   +8 more
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Decriminalizing Domestic Violence and Fighting Prostitution Abolition: Lessons Learned From Canada’s Anti-Carceral Feminist Struggles

International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2021
This article offers a cautionary tale for efforts to decriminalize domestic violence through a retrospective analysis of Canadian feminist legal activism to decriminalize sex work.
Gillian Balfour
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