Prostitution: Sex Work, Policy & Politics

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teela Sanders ◽  
Maggie O’Neill ◽  
Jane Pitcher
Keyword(s):  
Sex Work ◽  
Sex Work Policy

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.

Decriminalisation of sex work in the post-truth era? Strategic storytelling in neo-abolitionist accounts of the New Zealand model

2020 ◽  
pp. 174889582091889 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynzi Armstrong
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Occupational Health ◽  
Sex Work ◽  
Sex Workers ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Occupational Health And Safety ◽  
Sex Work Policy ◽  
Knowledge Claims

In the context of on-going debates regarding sex work laws, in most jurisdictions forms of criminalisation continue to dominate. Despite decades of sex workers calling for the decriminalisation of sex work and collectively organising against repressive laws, decriminalisation remains uncommon. New Zealand was the first full country to decriminalise sex work with the passing of the Prostitution Reform Act in 2003, which aimed to improve occupational health and safety. Several empirical studies have documented positive impacts of this framework. However, despite this, neo-abolitionists persistently describe the New Zealand model as a failed approach. This article examines neo-abolitionist knowledge claims regarding the New Zealand model and in doing so unpacks the strategic stories told about this approach, considering the implications for sex work policy making.

UK sex work policy:

2018 ◽  
pp. 67-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teela Sanders
Keyword(s):  
Sex Work ◽  
Sex Work Policy

scholarly journals The Continued Criminality of Selling Sex: A Trajectory of South African Sex Work Law Reform

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Amanda Spies
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Sex Work ◽  
Sex Workers ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Law Reform ◽  
Constitutional Rights ◽  
The South ◽  
Sex Work Policy ◽  
Rights Discourse

Abstract This article explores the regulation of sex work in South Africa and follows the trajectory of the South African Law Reform Commission (SALRC) in investigating whether sex work should be decriminalized. The legal regulation of sex work is a hotly contested topic. South Africa currently criminalizes the selling and buying of sex, but policy reform has been on the cards since the SALRC launched its project on the topic in the early 2000s. As most sex work policy responses are grounded in feminist theory, the article analyses the main theoretical ideologies and questions the influence of these ideologies in structuring sex work law reform in the South African context. The author calls for a more inclusive understanding of feminism and sex work, and the need to acknowledge the importance of rights discourse in furthering political growth and protecting sex workers’ constitutional rights.

scholarly journals Sex work, containment and the new discourse of public health in French colonial Levant

2021 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
pp. 330-346
Author(s):  
Pascale N. Graham
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Sex Work ◽  
Sex Workers ◽  
Health Knowledge ◽  
Venereal Disease ◽  
Commercial Sex Work ◽  
Colonial State ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Sex Work Policy ◽  
French Colonial

AbstractThis article addresses how French academics, doctors and state bureaucrats formulated sex work as a pathology, an area of inquiry that had to be studied in the interest of public safety. French colonisation in the Levant extended the reach of this ‘expertise’ from the metropole to Lebanon under the guise of public health. Knowledge produced by academics was used to buttress colonial state policy, which demanded that sex workers be contained to protect society against medical contagion. No longer drawing conclusions based on speculation, the medical establishment asserted its authority by harnessing modern advances in science and uniting them with extensive observation. ‘Empirical facts’ replaced ‘opinions’, as doctors forged new approaches to studying and containing venereal disease. They accomplished this through the use of statistics and new methods of diagnosing and treating maladies. Their novel approach was used to treat sex workers and to support commercial sex work policy both at home and abroad. Sex workers became the objects of scientific study and were consequently problematised by the state in medicalised terms.

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