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, 2018
Global Sex Workers presents the personal experiences of sex workers around the world. Drawing on their individual narratives, it explores international struggles to uphold the rights of this often marginalized group.
K. Kempadoo, Jo Doezema
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Global Sex Workers presents the personal experiences of sex workers around the world. Drawing on their individual narratives, it explores international struggles to uphold the rights of this often marginalized group.
K. Kempadoo, Jo Doezema
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Feminist Criminology, 2014
Until 2012, the New Orleans criminal justice system forced persons convicted of certain prostitution offenses to register as sex offenders under an antiquated (1805) statute that criminalizes oral or anal sex in exchange for compensation. This article explores attitudes and beliefs that enabled Louisiana’s misuse of the sex offender registry against ...
Susan Dewey, Tonia P. St. Germain
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Until 2012, the New Orleans criminal justice system forced persons convicted of certain prostitution offenses to register as sex offenders under an antiquated (1805) statute that criminalizes oral or anal sex in exchange for compensation. This article explores attitudes and beliefs that enabled Louisiana’s misuse of the sex offender registry against ...
Susan Dewey, Tonia P. St. Germain
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Protecting sex workers in Thailand during the COVID-19 pandemic: opportunities to build back better
WHO South-East Asia Journal of Public Health, 2020The Government of Thailand was prompt to launch social and economic measures to mitigate the effects on the general population following lockdown measures to counter coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
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2012
The emergence of HIV/AIDS in the Western world has revived the association of sex workers with sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS. The issues underlying sex work are diverse and require consideration of the linkages between policy, behavior, attitude and contextual factors involved in transactional sex and HIV transmission.
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The emergence of HIV/AIDS in the Western world has revived the association of sex workers with sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS. The issues underlying sex work are diverse and require consideration of the linkages between policy, behavior, attitude and contextual factors involved in transactional sex and HIV transmission.
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Abstract This chapter shows that sex work in the Hebrew Bible is defined by the perception that sex workers had an unusual degree of sexual choice in a paradigm that prioritized household oversight for women’s sexual choices. Sex work was legal and adultery was considered a much more threatening offense, both legally and morally ...
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Domestic workers, sex workers, and the movement
2015To novelists, short story writers, poets, and playwrights of the early twentieth century, works of fiction provided spaces to explore the ways that black women workers shaped and were shaped by the theory and practice of working-class resistance. This dissertation is an analysis of domestic labor and sexual labor that imagines the possibilities of ...
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The Regulation of Sex Work and Sex Workers
2016This chapter describes that the terminology used when discussing sex work and prostitution and the implications each term has within a larger political and ideological debate. It explains what effect perceptions of morality and perceived dangers associated with prostitution have on the development of prostitution laws.
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2016
Although commercial sex transactions related to men who have sex with men have particular importance for HIV/AIDS prevention, the economic literature analyzing male sex workers is limited. A handful of studies have been published, first with descriptive analyses of specific markets and more recently taking advantage of Internet resources and larger ...
Omar Galárraga, Sandra G. Sosa-Rubí
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Although commercial sex transactions related to men who have sex with men have particular importance for HIV/AIDS prevention, the economic literature analyzing male sex workers is limited. A handful of studies have been published, first with descriptive analyses of specific markets and more recently taking advantage of Internet resources and larger ...
Omar Galárraga, Sandra G. Sosa-Rubí
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2016
The modern prostitute and, thus, sex worker, movement is commonly believed to have begun with two events in two separate cities, namely, San Francisco in 1973 and Lyon in 1975. In San Francisco, COYOTE (Call Off Your Tired Old Ethics) was founded as the first ever advocacy and pressure group for prostitutes, subsequently operating with the subtitle ...
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The modern prostitute and, thus, sex worker, movement is commonly believed to have begun with two events in two separate cities, namely, San Francisco in 1973 and Lyon in 1975. In San Francisco, COYOTE (Call Off Your Tired Old Ethics) was founded as the first ever advocacy and pressure group for prostitutes, subsequently operating with the subtitle ...
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Porn Studies, 2018
I write this article as a femme academic who works both in the public health sector and in the sex industry.
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I write this article as a femme academic who works both in the public health sector and in the sex industry.
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