Some Useful Sources

2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 157-159
Author(s):  
Natalie Hammond
Keyword(s):  
Sex Work ◽  
Commercial Sex ◽  
Cultural Approach ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Sex Work Policy

The references attached to each of the articles offer a wide range of resources for those interested in extending their knowledge of commercial sex policy and literature that takes a socio-cultural approach to sex work more broadly. Additionally, included below are a number of sources that explore commercial sex and sex work policy in their broadest sense. This list is in no sense definitive, but taken with the references in the articles in this themed section, it seeks to demonstrate the spectrum of work that is available.

Doing Tricks

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodrigo Borba
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Sex Work ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Sex Industry ◽  
Commercial Sex ◽  
Business Transaction ◽  
Methodological Challenges ◽  
Social Scientific

Sex work has long been of interest to a variety of fields, among them anthropology, sociology, public health, and feminist theory, to name but a few. However, with very few exceptions, sociolinguistics seems to have ignored the fact that commercial sex, as an intersubjective business transaction, is primarily negotiated in embodied linguistic interaction. By reviewing publications in distinct social scientific areas that directly or indirectly discuss the role of language in the sex industry, this chapter critically assesses the analytical affordances and methodological challenges for a sociolinguistics of sex work. It does so by discussing the “tricks” played by sex work, as a power-infused context of language use in which issues of agency (or lack thereof) are paramount, on sociolinguistic theory and methods. The chapter concludes that the study of language in commercial sex venues is sociolinguistically promising and epistemologically timely.

The Regulation of Prostitution: Avoiding the Morality Traps

1994 ◽  
Vol 9 (01) ◽  
pp. 123-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frances M. Shaver
Keyword(s):  
Sex Work ◽  
Human Sexuality ◽  
Legal Reform ◽  
Radical Feminism ◽  
Commercial Sex ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Legal Policies ◽  
Canadian Research

AbstractThere are three types of sexual moralism in evidence in the discussions regarding the regulation of prostitution: the overt moral fervour of the Victorian crusaders, the more covert moralism of contemporary crusaders (residents) and legislators, and the principled moralism of contemporary radical feminism. It is maintained—using arguments and evidence from the author's own and other Canadian research—that each type has contributed heavily to the failure to adequately evaluate the nature of sex work. As a consequence, our ability to develop appropriate social and legal policies has been severely restricted. It is argued that the key to appropriate social and legal reform lies in recognizing four points: prostitution per se is not different from other work; prostitution as currently practised is different; the evaluation of commercial sex must be conducted in the broader context of human sexuality; and it is essential to focus on the specificity of women, rather than the specificity of prostitution.

Sex, Work, and the Victorians

2020 ◽  
pp. 61-80
Author(s):  
Nicola J. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Sex Work ◽  
Body Politic ◽  
The Body ◽  
Sexual Deviance ◽  
Commercial Sex ◽  
Victorian England ◽  
Capitalist Development ◽  
The Public ◽  
Stimulation Of

Focusing on Victorian England, this chapter examines how sex was increasingly constructed as something that was primarily biological in nature, and how this was bound up with discourses of prostitution as a threat to the reproduction of the body politic. In the first section, the author considers how the pathologization of commercial sex as abnormal and unhealthy worked to naturalize the public/private split on which capitalist development rested. In the second section, the author connects the medical, moral, and juridical regulation of sex work to the suppression and stimulation of other modes of sexual deviance including homosexuality. In the final section, the author explores the role of race and empire in constituting white, bourgeois sexuality as natural, privileged, and the antithesis of commercialized sex.

The Work of Sex Work

2020 ◽  
pp. 192-209
Author(s):  
Katie Cruz
Keyword(s):  
Sex Work ◽  
Sex Workers ◽  
Commercial Sex ◽  
Labour Law ◽  
Important Distinction ◽  
Commercial Sex Work ◽  
Structural Coupling ◽  
Work Relations ◽  
Structural Context

This chapter analyses the legal treatment of sex work, and specifically prostitution, from the perspective of Marxist feminism. Here, the work of sex work must be understood in its wider structural context of gendered and racialized capitalism. The chapter argues that sex work should be understood as work. Furthermore, the features of ‘unfreedom’ associated with sex work do not vitiate its identity as a form of work, and therefore as an activity that warrants the application of protective norms of labour law. This marks an important distinction from the previous chapter’s taxonomy of commercial sex work. In fact, this chapter argues that all work under capitalism is structurally coupled with exploitation and alienation (unfreedom) that ebbs and flows according to the balance of class forces. Given this structural coupling, it is problematic to use the exploitation and alienation in sex work as a basis for excluding it from the domain of personal work relations and for barring sex workers from worker protective laws.

From Victim to Criminality

2021 ◽  
pp. 288-308
Author(s):  
Vipin Vijay Nair ◽  
Sandra Anil Varkey
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Sex Work ◽  
Sex Workers ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Commercial Sex ◽  
Commercial Sex Work ◽  
Highly Sensitive ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
Society Today

Trafficking of persons, primarily women and children, is one of the growing social dilemmas concerning global society today. Not only is human trafficking a highly sensitive and polarizing subject, but it is also considered a common norm in many countries. Many women recruited into commercial sex work are coerced into the profession exploiting their financial and economic condition but continue to work in the profession to survive through easy money. The chapter focuses on a theoretical framework for understanding the victimization of female sex workers. It also reflects various lacuna in the present criminal justice system and law enforcement mechanism in criminalizing victims within the sex work industry. The chapter narrates the voices of commercial sex workers in India over the prejudices and criminalization by various laws and regulations towards their consensual sex work. The chapter recommends sensitization training and awareness amongst various stakeholders of the criminal justice system.

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