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A model of client-related violence against female street sex workers. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Although a plethora of studies provide evidence of the extent and severity of violence that street workers experience from clients, there is little consensus across the explanations that have been advanced to account for this.
Youngs, Donna E., Ioannou, Maria
core   +4 more sources

Students in the Sex Industry: Motivations, Feelings, Risks, and Judgments

open access: yesFrontiers 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
doaj   +1 more source

Police violence and sexual risk among female and transvestite sex workers in Serbia: qualitative study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
OBJECTIVE: To explore female and transvestite sex workers' perceptions of risk in the sex work environment in Serbia. DESIGN: Qualitative interview study. SETTING: Street based locations for sex work in Belgrade and Pancevo, Serbia.
Platt, Lucy   +9 more
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Sex workers to pay the price [PDF]

open access: yesBMJ, 2006
In 2004 the UK Home Office published a consultation paper on sex work, after a review of the Sex Offences Act (2003). The paper, Paying the Price,1 was criticised by specialist services for giving less priority to the health of sex workers than before and for focusing too much on issues of criminal justice, and by health researchers for its unethical ...
Petra, Boynton, Linda, Cusick
openaire   +2 more sources

"You are wasting our drugs": health service barriers to HIV treatment for sex workers in Zimbabwe. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
BACKGROUND: Although disproportionately affected by HIV, sex workers (SWs) remain neglected by efforts to expand access to antiretroviral treatment (ART).
Mtetwa, S   +14 more
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Kriminalisasi Perempuan Pekerja Seks Komersial dalam Perluasan Pasal Zina RUU KUHP

open access: yesSawwa: Jurnal Studi Gender, 2018
This article discusses the Criminal Code Bill which has unjust legal potential because the provision of adultery has been extended to sexual acts by unmarried couples.
Leony Sondang Suryani, Ani Purwanti
doaj   +1 more source

COVID-19 and sex workers: human rights, the struggle for safety and minimum income

open access: yesCanadian journal of public health, 2020
Dear Editors, As the number of deaths around the world linked to COVID-19 surpasses 300,000, we are reminded once again of how marginalization and socio-economic status affect mortality rates at the micro and macro levels. For example, at the macro level,
Ehsan Jozaghi, L. Bird
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Excluded but Fighting: Where Are the Voices of Sex Workers and Their Allies in EU Anti-Trafficking Policymaking?

open access: yesSocial Sciences
The ‘end demand’ approach to prostitution has been popping up in Europe through the anti-trafficking debate and receives increasing attention on the international agenda.
Irena Ferčíková Konečná
doaj   +1 more source

The impact of end-demand legislation on sex workers’ access to health and sex worker-led services: A community-based prospective cohort study in Canada

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2020
Background Following a global wave of end-demand criminalization of sex work, the Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act (PCEPA) was implemented in Canada, which has implications for the health and safety of sex workers.
E. Argento   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Covid-19: Health needs of sex workers are being sidelined, warn agencies

open access: yesBritish medical journal, 2020
Agencies have criticised the lack of action to protect the health needs of sex workers during the pandemic, with the English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP) warning of a “ticking time bomb of health problems.” Sex workers are at heightened risk of ill ...
Sally Howard
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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