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Beyond Sex/Work: Understanding Work and Identity of Female Sex Workers in South China
Social Inclusion, 2020 While scholars and activists often advocate using the term ‘sex worker’ in preference to prostitute, in my research I found that female prostitutes in the Pearl River Delta area, south China, do not like to be addressed as such, and prefer the title ...
Yu Ding
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Takatāpui/LGBTIQ+ People’s Experiences of Homelessness and Sex Work in Aotearoa New Zealand
Anti-Trafficking Review, 2023 At present, there is limited research on the intersection of sex work, takatāpui/LGBTIQ+ communities, and experiences of homelessness in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Brodie Fraser +2 more
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Social Sciences, 2017 Historically, academic literature on sex work has documented the changing debates, policies, and cultural discourse surrounding the sex industry, and their impact on the rights of sex workers worldwide.
Megan Lowthers +3 more
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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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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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‘Hot, Young, Buff’: An Indigenous Australian Gay Male View of Sex Work
Social Inclusion, 2021 Research has historically constructed youths who are involved in sex work as victims of trafficking, exploitation, poverty, and substance abuse. These perceptions often cast the sex worker as deviant and in need of ‘care’ and ‘protection.’ Rarely seen ...
Corrinne Sullivan
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Students in the Sex Industry: Motivations, Feelings, Risks, and Judgments
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Student sex work is a current phenomenon all over the world, increasingly reported by the media in recent years. However, student sex work remains under-researched in Germany and is lacking direct first-hand reports from the people involved. Further, sex
Felicitas Ernst +5 more
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Understanding the Diversity of People in Sex Work: Views from Leaders in Sex Worker Organizations
Social Sciences, 2023 Criminal laws in Canada and many other countries are currently premised on the assumption of homogeneity, that is, people in sex work are cis women and girls who are being sexually exploited/sex trafficked.
Andrea Mellor, Cecilia Benoit
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An Ethnographic Analysis of Escort Services in Poland: An Interactionist Approach
Qualitative Sociology Review, 2020 In the Polish literature on the subject, prostitution is analyzed from various theoretical perspectives, but, first of all, from the perspective of social pathology.
Izabela Ślęzak
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Social Sciences, 2021 There is limited available evidence on sex workers (SW) ability to access police protection or means of escaping situations of violence and confinement under an “end demand” criminalization model.
Anna-Louise Crago +3 more
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