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Sex work

open access: yesFeminist Philosophy, 2021
Chauntelle A. Tibbals   +1 more
semanticscholar   +6 more sources

Navigating and resisting platform affordances: Online sex work as digital labor

open access: yesGender, Work & Organization, 2023
The context in which labor occurs shapes work. In online work, the platform is one site of work and therefore influences the experiences of workers.
Helen M. Rand, H. Stegeman
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Stigma Hierarchies: The Internal Dynamics of Stigmatization in the Sex Work Occupation

open access: yesAdministrative Science Quarterly, 2022
Scholars studying stigmatized, or “dirty work,” occupations have tended to characterize people outside of the occupation as the stigmatizers and those within the occupation as social supports who buffer each other from stigma.
Madeline Toubiana, Trish Ruebottom
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Asking About “Prostitution”, “Sex Work” and “Transactional Sex”: Question Wording and Attitudes Toward Trading Sexual Services

open access: yesJournal of Sex Research, 2022
This study explored the impact of question wording on attitudes toward trading sexual services. There are no previous research agendas investigating how views on the trade in sex are susceptible to question word choice.
Michael A. Hansen, Isabelle Johansson
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Platforms, sex work and their interconnectedness

open access: yesSexualities, 2021
This article examines the interconnectedness of sex work with the platform economy. It does this by mobilizing two concepts from the platform economy literature: the platform stack (which captures the structure of platforms) and interpenetration (which ...
J. Swords, M. Laing, Ian R Cook
semanticscholar   +1 more source

‘I Wouldn’t Call the Cops if I was Being Bashed to Death’: Sex Work, Whore Stigma and the Criminal Legal System

open access: yesInternational Journal For Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2021
Discourse on sex work is replete with narratives of risk and danger, predominantly focused on violence and disease. However, the risks instigated by police, maintained by the criminal justice system and sanctioned by the state—criminal laws, licensing ...
Zahra Stardust   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Risking safety and rights: online sex work, crimes and ‘blended safety repertoires’

open access: greenBritish Journal of Sociology, 2018
It has been well established that those working in the sex industry are at various risks of violence and crime depending on where they sell sex and the environments in which they work.
Rosie Campbell   +4 more
openalex   +3 more sources

At the Intersection of COVID-19 and Sex Work in the United States: A Call for Social Work Action

open access: yes, 2021
The emergence of COVID-19 in the United States in early 2020 has severely disrupted the lives of most Americans, and people engaged in sex trade are no exception.
Nicole F. Bromfield   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Sex Work, Essential Work: A Historical and (Necro)Political Analysis of Sex Work in Times of COVID-19 in Brazil

open access: yesSocial Sciences, 2020
Brazil has made international headlines for the government’s inept and irresponsible response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In this context, sex worker activists have once again taken on an essential role in responding to the pandemic amidst State absences ...
Betania Santos   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

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