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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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‘It’s better than daytime television’: questioning the socio-spatial impacts of massage parlours on residential communities [PDF]
, 2016 It has been shown that street sex work is problematic for some communities, but there is less evidence of the effects of brothels. Emerging research also suggests that impact discourses outlined by residential communities and in regulatory policies ...
Agustin L +15 more
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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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Getting paid for sex is my kick: a qualitative study of male sex workers [PDF]
, 2008 As with its female counterpart, male sex work (MSW) has generally been regarded as deeply problematic, either because of negative societal attitudes to the selling of sex or the prevalence of psychosocial and economic problems amongst those attracted to ...
Christmann, Kris, Wilcox, Aidan
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The Dynamics of Sex Ratio Evolution: From the Gene Perspective to Multilevel Selection [PDF]
, 2013 The new dynamical game theoretic model of sex ratio evolution emphasizes the role of males as passive carriers of sex ratio genes. This shows inconsistency between population genetic models of sex ratio evolution and classical strategic models.
Argasinski, Krzysztof
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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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Social SciencesDiversion programs are increasingly used as alternatives to criminal penalties for women involved in commercial sex, yet limited research has examined how such programs support behavior change across diverse subgroups, particularly between sex-trafficked
Noam Haviv, Dominique Roe-Sepowitz
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