Cisgender sex workers are safer from these risks than transgender sex workers; white sex workers are safer than sex workers of colour.
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These arrests target mostly sex workers of color, transgender sex workers, and immigrant sex workers.
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If you want to do your part to help sex workers, there are lots of organizations dedicated to protecting sex workers from harm, like the Sex Workers Outreach Project-USA and Sex Workers Project.
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My best friends are sex workers, my former lovers have been sex workers.
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Stories about sex workers and especially sex workers of color still aren't prominent.
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Sex workers, particular trans, non-white, and street-based sex workers are the highest risk right now.
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"I always think that when you create something for sex workers, you should involve sex workers," Luhrs added, while stressing that she does not know if independent sex workers not associated with PROUD were contacted.
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The play also deals with sex workers' relationships with their bodies, safety issues and police treatment of sex workers.
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While some feminist groups support Sweden's approach, sex workers' rights groups say the Nordic model still hurts sex workers.
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The committee consulted with sex workers, the National Sex Workers Association and the Scarlet Alliance in the development of the bill, which is why it's so relevant to the lived context and needs of sex workers.
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Sex workers, particularly trans sex workers of color, face a disproportionately high risk of violence, up to and including murder.
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Kate McGrew of Sex Workers Alliance Ireland says that fewer sex workers are heeding what used to be red flags.
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"It's not just a single issue of sex workers, it's everything else that sex workers are as people," Calida said.
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And oftentimes, when violence against sex workers does happen, sex workers can't always go to the police to report it.
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Research shows that trans sex workers face more bigotry and violence than other sex workers, and like all minorities in the field, trans sex workers are subjected to fetishization in ways that white, straight, cis workers aren't.
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The bills have been widely rejected by sex workers' rights advocates and other experts for placing sex workers in immediate harm.
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According to sex workers, video chat services like Skype have begun banning sex workers who perform on internet cams, for instance.
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A lot of people think they know what sex work is, what sex workers look like, or what sex workers need.
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These new laws will harm and contribute to the death of queer and trans sex workers, among many other sex workers.
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"She's really, I think, driving the conversation about the humanity of sex workers and the vulnerability of sex workers," he said.
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As Amnesty explains: Such laws force sex workers to operate covertly in ways that compromise their safety, prohibit actions that sex workers take to maximize their safety, and serve to deny sex workers support or protection from government officials.
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And I've talked to sex workers, former sex workers, who are concerned about that, and also want to pursue their own careers.
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Not all sex workers sell sex: Cam performers, porn performers, strippers and sensual-massage workers are some other examples of sex workers.
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But some organizations that are advocates for sex workers argue that shutting down Backpage will force sex workers into more dangerous situations.
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Additionally, Pornhub is donating $25,000 to the Sex Workers Outreach Project to support relief funds for sex workers affected by COVID-19.
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Our bus crew was in no way fully representative of all the sex workers who marched across the world that day, or the diverse sex workers living in America, or even the sex workers most at risk from the Trump administration.
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"We're already at a really dangerous place in Canada where sex workers who are indigenous women, sex workers who are drug users, sex workers who work at the street level, have been saying that the laws are harmful," Jarvis told VICE.
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"Police frequently failed to act on sex workers' reports of such crimes, or blamed and arrested sex workers themselves, meaning that offenders could operate with impunity and sex workers were reluctant to report to the police in [the] future," Platt said.
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The Sex Workers' Opera isn't designed to make the audience feel sorry for sex workers, but rather to challenge people's perceptions of those who do sex work and acknowledge that while some sex workers are coerced, others have made a choice.
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Black sex workers, trans women, immigrants and disabled people face higher risks, as do as sex-working parents and street-based sex workers.
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Wednesday, organizers cancelled the biggest gathering for training sex workers and sex work advocates, citing a newly-passed law that endangers sex workers.
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Since the law went into effect, Burns wrote, sex workers — including many trans sex workers of color — have experienced a spike in violence.
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"An annual sex workers' art show was an idea I got from Danzine, a former sex workers' non-profit in Portland," Bickers explained.
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The proceeds from the compilation benefit the Urban Justice Center's Sex Workers Project, which provides aid to sex workers who desperately need it.
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To be sure, some sex workers are capable of finding this while working in the business—and some privileged sex workers may even find this with their clientele—but most sex workers, I'd imagine (like most women) are used to far less.
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While she hopes to help normalize conversations around sex work and make black and trans sex workers more visible as leaders in the sex workers' rights movement, the collective's purpose is to offer support services for current and former black sex workers.
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FOSTA, a new law that makes it harder for sex workers to operate independently online, has only pushed sex workers further into the margins.
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Listen to sex workers Sex workers have long argued that criminalization and policing practices cause and/or exacerbate the worst harms to their well-being.
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Our sex workers are also on the lookout; an organized movement against violence and abuse towards sex workers has only strengthened in the past years.
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In 1997, 4,173 sex workers made history with the first National Conference of Sex Workers in India, organised by the Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee (DMSC).
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"It reduces safety for sex workers," explained RJ Thompson, who serves as managing director of the Sex Workers Project and is a sex worker himself.
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In its wake, sex workers' opposition to SESTA/FOSTA received considerable media attention, and the movement for sex workers' rights was reinvigorated across the country.
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Sex workers are tantalizing to Hollywood because they represent the exact opposite of the glamorous, beautifully poised ideal we have — sex workers are seen as dirty.
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The country has seen a spike in violence against sex workers in the wake of FOSTA-SESTA, including against black and brown trans women sex workers.
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While many sex workers remain vulnerable to exploitation in Myanmar, trans sex workers and their supporters say widespread hatred towards their community makes them easy targets.
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" Some argued that by not understanding how the anti-trafficking legislation harmed sex workers, if elected president, Harris wasn't going to "stop locking up sex workers.
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Sex workers' rights groups (including, in the United States, Sex Workers Outreach Project USA, the Desiree Alliance and the Best Practices Policy Project) generally oppose it.
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Even before these bills passed, sex workers were 400 percent more likely to be murdered than the average woman, according to the Sex Workers Outreach Project.
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" Many advocates for sex workers objected to that change, since it could be read as a suggestion that all sex workers are inherently or equally "exploited.
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"In May 2011 he read a review of sex workers into extreme practices ... in 2013 he was looking for more submissive sex workers," he told the court.
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At least 32 sex workers in the United States have been killed in 2018, according to the Sex Workers Outreach Project, which said criminalization helps drive violence.
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However some sex workers are unhappy with the ruling, one telling Reuters that sex workers now won't be able to declare what they earn or pay taxes.
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Recently, trolls have begun harassing sex workers by saying they're going to report them to the IRS, and many sex workers are worried that they'll be audited.
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The Sex Workers' Pop-Up brings together installations, performances, and conversations from an exciting group of international artists, many of whom are or were sex workers themselves.
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They argued that sex workers would have to transition to dangerous street-based work, and that harm-reduction resources that sex workers rely on would go offline.
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Following the passage of the Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act last year, platforms and services that once kept sex workers safe online were shuttered, and, as predicted by sex workers themselves, law enforcement has seen a massive uptick in trafficking and violence against sex workers following FOSTA's passing.
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Lieberman—whose next book is on male sex workers—used an example from her research, mentioning "cunt-lappers," or male sex workers who serviced women by performing cunnilingus.
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While sex workers say the law is putting their lives at risk, it has invigorated the community and pushed the issues facing sex workers into the national consciousness.
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The campaign to support this full decriminalization bill, DecrimNow DC, was created by sex workers, with black and trans sex workers the most visible public speakers and leaders.
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"We hope in a year or two we'll be run entirely by sex workers or ex-sex workers," said Justine Le Clercq, a spokeswoman for My Red Light.
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Dubbed as the Safe Sex Workers Study Act, the measure would require the Department of Health and Human Services to study the health and safety of sex workers.
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"Transgender sex workers — primarily black transgender sex workers — were already in the furthest parts of the margins," Spellman said, experiencing high rates of homelessness, unemployment, and food insecurity.
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Sex workers' rights advocates were concerned when a line proclaiming solidarity with sex workers' rights movements was apparently removed from the Unity Principles — the line was later reinstated.
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Since these laws were first introduced in August of 2017, sex workers persistently warned of the bills' dangerous potential consequences: forcing sex workers to return to pimps, forcing them to find clients on the streets (rather than online where they can vet them), and leaving sex workers more vulnerable to abuse.
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Sex workers and their advocates say some have become homeless as a result of the law, and violence against sex workers is on the rise — in just a few weeks after the law passed, the website Tits and Sass reported, 13 sex workers went missing and two were confirmed dead.
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Truly understanding the lives of sex workers, and the policies that help them, requires putting aside our personal feelings about sexuality and listening to the experiences of sex workers.
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Other sites that sex workers use, such as review sites and Backpage's adult services subsection, have been affected, further pushing sex workers off platforms they've used online for years.
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Jasmine was an outspoken sex worker's rights advocate, arguing against a system called the "Swedish model," which criminalizes the clients of sex workers but not the sex workers themselves.
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Montreal-based Jenn Clamen, the communications coordinator with Chez Stella, an organization run for sex workers by sex workers, said she hasn't heard any concerns from the community yet.
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This is how a group of sex workers—organized by the Sex Workers Outreach Project and Survivors Against SESTA, decided to do something that we had never done before.
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Sex workers have been organizing and advocating tirelessly for the decriminalization of sex work—now widely recognized as the best way to protect sex workers' access to health and justice.
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The researchers adapted questions and techniques from standard demographic surveys to interview 271 sex workers in four Cambodian cities about the deaths of other sex workers and of their children.
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We recently had the chance to document Lindsay, who is 32, as she went on a few photo shoots with sex workers in our documentary, The Home Lives of Sex Workers.
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It's all killer stuff, and hey, even better, the proceeds from the compilation benefit the Urban Justice Center's Sex Workers Project, which provides aid to sex workers who desperately need it.
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We have a lot more work we're gonna have to do in the future around sex workers' rights, and we need the support of non–sex workers to achieve it. 69.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads PORTLAND—No Human Involved: the 5th Annual Sex Workers' Art Show subverts homogenized narratives of sex work by showcasing critically engaged artworks by sex workers.
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I'll tell you something — sex workers sure can eat.
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"Attempting to deter sex workers from their jobs by removing advertising and screening platforms is akin to pushing sex work 'underground' and in the streets—where workers have less power in relation to their clients and where sex workers are at greater risk of arrest and police violence," the Sex Workers Outreach Project said.
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French sex workers will be able to start filing for full medical coverage with MPI next week, and de Sade still views it as a historic win for the sex workers community.
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"Sex workers are talking a lot more publicly," said Alex Andrews, a member of the board of directors of the national chapter of the Sex Workers Outreach Project and former sex worker.
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Sex workers, for instance, are so invisible and misrepresented in media, and violence against sex workers is so bad, things like SESTA and FOSTA get passed because people have so much misinformation.
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When social media platforms tolerate harassment against sex workers, it becomes an inevitable part of doing business, background noise to the daily grind of the labor that actually makes sex workers money.
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It's a misinformed decision and is perpetuated on stigma, and it's based on a stereotype of sex workers, rather than any evidence of a link between sex workers and poor sexual health.
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"Sexual health services for sex workers throughout the UK are being massively cut, throughout the country," says Alex Feis-Bryce, CEO of National Ugly Mugs (NUM), a UK organization for sex workers.
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Of course, not all sex workers should be branded as victims, but some studies show that anywhere between 10 and 90 percent of Dutch sex workers have been forced into the trade.
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Take last August, when celebrities like Lena Dunham and Emma Thompson attacked a report that drew on the experiences of tons of sex workers, subsequently pissing off a ton of sex workers.
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"I've heard some horrendous stories about therapists refusing to treat sex workers," says Leya Tanit, the founder of Pineapple Support, an organization that helps connect sex workers to mental health care services.
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"A lot of sex workers are working in isolation," said Dolgin, noting that cam girls, indie porn producers, and full service sex workers are often independent workers, all off on their own.
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Some sex workers are already losing their housing as a direct result of forums like Craigslist personals going dark, according to Christa B. Daring, board president of the Sex Workers Outreach Project.
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"Without these alerts we expect it to be much easier for offenders to target sex workers, because we will no longer be able to automatically alert sex workers of potential dangers," Smyth said.
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Gabbard's unequivocal support for decriminalizing sex workers comes after she — and all the other 2020 Democratic candidates in Congress — voted for legislation last year that has been criticized by sex workers and activists.
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In reality, many sex workers' rights advocates say, the legislation made it harder for sex workers to advertise online, giving them less ability to prescreen clients and making them more vulnerable to violence.
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Online harassment of sex workers has existed as long as sex workers have been online — and it has often served as a harbinger of what's to come for non-sex-working harassment victims.
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But solicitor Myles Jackman, a leading sexual-freedom advocate, disagrees: "While I have campaigned for and support the movement for sex workers' rights on the basis of protecting sex workers' safety," he said.
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Also, FOSTA/SESTA has resulted in the closure of websites that I have used in the past, and it's driving some US sex workers into much more dangerous work, especially migrant sex workers.
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Last year, Congress passed SESTA/FOSTA, a package of bills that shuttered websites used by sex workers, which advocates argued jeopardized sex workers' safety and livelihood in the name of curbing sex trafficking.
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The Sex Workers' Opera was the first time I'd ever been privy to the unfiltered stories of sex workers that didn't form part of a nineteenth-century novel, or a TV soap opera.
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She also founded the blog Tits and Sass—"By and About Sex Workers"— where she saw the comment section invaded by non-sex workers (mostly heterosexual male) the site was never intended for.
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A renewed sex workers' rights movement has gained support in response: The DecrimNY coalition has mobilized to support sex workers, and, last year, two senators spoke on plans to introduce a decriminalization bill.
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Most conversations around legal advocacy for sex workers tend to focus on a handful of big ticket items, like the fight for decriminalization or protecting sex workers from rapist cops like Daniel Holtzclaw.
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One of the best ways to help out is by volunteering or donating to the organizations that support sex workers rights such as HIPS or national organizations like Sex Workers Outreach Project USA.
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Common coping strategies noted by male sex workers include dissociation (which involves cognitively separating yourself from an uncomfortable experience), focusing on the money, and seeking social support and advice from other sex workers.
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Parents of sex workers don't always automatically reject their children.
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Getting sex workers full medical coverage was just the beginning.
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Among the similarities: Most of the victims were sex workers.
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Booker and Harris who support decriminalization for sex workers. Sen.
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Kamala Harris supports decriminalization for sex workers, as does Rep.
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Sex workers have told us that they're really seeing themselves.
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Robert says all proceeds go to the Sex Workers Project.
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Jesus spends his time with sex workers, among others, lepers.
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But FOSTA became law anyway, and has hurt sex workers.
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Sex workers have an added layer of vulnerability, she said.
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Is that portrayal of sex workers still relevant in 2017?
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Still, Harris says she supports the safety of sex workers.
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Another: Perhaps sex robots and sex workers will fix them?
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I know an accountant that specifically works with sex workers.
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As a category, sex workers tend to be committed activists.
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Many sex workers negotiate reviews as part of their tip.
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I've shot dozens of sex workers [for this photo project].
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The realities sex workers experience are omitted from their advertising.
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But many sex workers and free speech advocates feel differently.
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Who was she to look down on other sex workers?
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In reality, of course, sex workers are savvy business women.
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Though romanticized, they are typically entertainers -- and often sex workers.
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Not all sex workers are sex educators, sex therapists, etc.
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Male sex workers' issues are connected to homophobia and biphobia.
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Rina remembers that Banishanta was full of underage sex workers.
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Housewives also have sex workers to thank for their progress.
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It means removing past convictions from sex workers' criminal records.
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Both client and sex workers have accounts on the platform.
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Sex workers, even the most stigmatized, can speak for themselves.
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And the impact on sex workers, many say, was devastating.
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Not all sex workers have had access to those tools.
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Now, sex workers and their advocates are repaying the favor.
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"Financial discrimination is a huge issue for sex workers and extremely under reported in the media," Survivors Against SESTA, a campaign advocating for the rights and safety of sex workers, wrote on its website.
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Men Are Threatening To Report Sex Workers To The IRS On Social Media Blake Montgomery reports on a group of mostly men who are snitching on sex workers who use Snapchat and other platforms.
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Sex workers face different degrees of risk depending on what they're doing, said Chuck Cloniger, clinical director at the St. James Infirmary, which provides clinical and social services to sex workers in San Francisco.
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People of all genders, sexual orientations and ages become sex workers to support themselves financially, but the back alley hooker-pimp transaction sensationalized by the media isn't the reality that all sex workers face.
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Jokes about politicians and sex workers aside, many forms of sex work are still illegal and we had to try and convince people that sex workers—despite technically being criminals—deserve rights, dignity and safety.
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Objects of Desire is a collaboration between sex workers and artists which looks at the stories and experiences of sex workers via the weird and wonderful objects they have been offered or given by clients.
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" One woman, who asked only to be identified as Adrian, held a sign reading "Listen to Sex Workers," and another woman, who goes by SX, brought one that said "Consensual Sex Workers Against Sex Trafficking.
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Also, hiring Romanian sex workers is apparently cheaper than hiring extras...?
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But the sex workers of the Deuce do their own explaining.
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"Most sex workers don't own up to it," de Sade notes.
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But Tumblr's sanitization directly impacts one community in particular: sex workers.
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The response made no mention of Delaney's approach to sex workers.
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Authorities said he was motivated by a hatred toward sex workers.
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Hasids are outsiders in New York, and so are sex workers.
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Not about his piece, but about the plight of sex workers.
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Apparently, Craigslist handily facilitated the self-employment model for sex workers.
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Police have created, in essence, a DNA database of sex workers.
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Paying bail bonds puts many already impoverished sex workers into debt.
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And sex workers roamed the streets, looking for their next date.
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Many sex workers and sex worker rights advocates, however, vehemently disagree.
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Do not hide your prejudice against sex workers with fake worry.
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Other sex workers are similarly pernickety about their pre-booking rituals.
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Pyotr Pavlensky invited sex workers to testify at his criminal trial.
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And sadly, sex workers still encounter violence on a regular basis.
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There's so much discrimination surrounding sex workers in the general community.
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Unlike my other identities, sex workers aren't protected in any way.
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She's greeted with cheers and hugs from the other sex workers.
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The gangs will use local sex workers to spread the word.
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Society thinks sex workers' lives are worth less, and acts accordingly.
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What: Let Us Survive March and Rally advocating for sex workers.
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What: Press conference, march, and celebration in support of sex workers.
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The Junkie Whore trope is literally killing drug-using sex workers.
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And that's actually the majority of sex workers that I know.
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This idea of sex workers as makeshift therapists is nothing new.
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Some visited sex workers as much as four times a week.
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Sex workers are also often unable to transition to other work.
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According to the site, this will impact thousands of sex workers.
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Sex workers were the prime targets, but so was any woman
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California's Monterey County required sex workers to submit to mandatory STI
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The culture of silence that has impacted sex workers for so
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Bauer's film works against the negative stereotypes that surround sex workers.
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But for sex workers, it can create something of a bind.
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Be upfront with sex workers about payment, expectations, and boundaries.2100.
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Read: Why Isn't a Revolutionary HIV Medication Getting to Sex Workers?
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Many sex workers refuse same-day appointments for that very reason.
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Ask individual sex workers how they prefer you describe their jobs.
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Don't tag us in news items related to sex workers' deaths.
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Set aside the idea that sex workers are exploited by pimps.
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Believe sex workers when they say FOSTA/SESTA will be deadly.
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Criminal penalties can take a toll on sex workers' families too.
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I cannot ask for references from other sex workers about clients.
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For some sex workers, [avoiding risk is] easier than for others.
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And it was sex workers' rights advocates who saw the way.
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NSWP says that leaves sex workers open to exploitation by police.
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Many sex workers are undocumented or come from otherwise marginalized communities.
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Brigada Callejera says there are around 800,000 sex workers in Mexico.
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But it's interesting in this case, because they're not sex workers.
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What restrictions are typically put upon sex workers in older bills?
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And law enforcement profiles transgender women of color as sex workers.
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The cafe will be supporting sex workers—not giving them work.
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The killing of sex workers in particular will not be tolerated.
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Sex workers are too often considered "unrapeable" because of their profession.
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For pornographers and all sex workers, the threat is very real.
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The sex workers are gathered here in Manhattan to fight back against SESTA/FOSTA, a federal law passed under the guise of combating human sex-trafficking but that effectively destroyed crucial online spaces for sex workers.
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Conversely, last year it banned a site that was meant to help sex workers stay safe because of the Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA), which endangered many sex workers by pushing them off internet platforms.
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Even before the passing of these bills, sex workers overwhelmingly warned that they would do more harm than good; and now, sex workers are reporting the devastating effects, like being forced to return to dangerous pimps.
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Watch: The Battle for Sex-Workers' Rights You also use the sex workers' rights struggle to critique what you call "carceral" thinking—the view that policing and other legal interventions can solve various entrenched social problems.
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It all started with #ThotAudit, a harassment campaign that encouraged people to report sex workers — and, more specifically, sex workers who sell access to private Snapchat accounts — to the IRS for failure to pay their taxes.
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Whilst our preferred models of workplaces are sex workers-owned cooperatives, at the moment, the majority of sex workers work either (legally) in isolation or together for safety (and can be still arrested for brothel-keeping).
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"In Ireland, the situation is that sex workers are criminalized under what's called brothel keeping laws, which means that in order to work legally, sex workers must work alone," a Safe IQ representative told Android Authority.
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Facebook, and Sandberg personally, also supported anti-sex trafficking legislation that was almost universally criticized by sex workers, who said it would make "both consensual and nonconsensual sex workers less safe," as Vox's Aja Romano wrote.
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If you'd like to do more, consider organizing your own rally or march, donating to organizations that support sex workers, and/or showing your support for sex workers on social media and tagging your state representatives.
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Phelister Abdalla, an organiser with the Kenya Sex Workers Alliance, writes that 'hundreds of sex workers, from different parts of Kenya went to protest in Thika… our fellow sisters had been killed, and enough was enough.
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Sex workers cannot go to the police for help because they are directly connected to the oppression of so many marginalized groups who often are sex workers: women, black and other people of color, LGBT people.
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But just as quickly, she faced backlash from sex workers who argued that what she proposed in her tweet was akin to suggesting that sex workers sacrifice themselves to abusers for the good of other women.
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Forty-three years later, sex workers and allies are still fighting for sex-worker rights—and to regain protections lost by the recent passage of a law with ramifications that sex workers say could literally kill them.
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Some sex workers and scholars have argued that police and non-profits inflate the scope of the sex trafficking problem so they can look like heroes, swooping in to "save" consensual sex workers from so-called slavery.
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"Sex workers want to combat trafficking and end exploitation more than anyone, but the pragmatic result will be to harm the livelihoods of sex workers and force people in sexual labor into more coercive and dangerous situations"
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Whilst we doubt the business will be authorized in the UK, we hope that sex workers in Geneva or Thailand or wherever else sex workers work under management have the resources to self-organize against their exploitation.
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The number of Bengali-speaking commercial sex workers in the city's main red-light district of Kamathipura is at a record high, according to data compiled by Prerana, a non-profit focused on trafficking and sex workers.
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After the trailer was posted last night, people on Twitter went ballistic, pointing out the issues with how the movie portrays sex workers: Clearly, this kind of premise is infuriating to sex workers, as well as advocates.
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Don't ask nonwhite sex workers to perform their race for the sake of your fetish—like expecting Indigenous sex workers to dress in Native garb or Black or Spanish-speaking workers to speak in exaggerated accents. 26.
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Amidst the voices of panic and sex workers struggling to figure out their next move, I did hear from one person who's holding out hope that this story might result in a positive outcome for sex workers.
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The reform in New Zealand is thought to have reduced violence against sex workers, increased their comfort in reporting abuse to the police and improved police attitudes toward sex workers, according to the country's Ministry of Justice.
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Though the law was created to crack down on online services like Backpage and Craigslist, where many sex workers advertise, critics say it will likely backfire, leaving sex workers without a safe way to screen their clients.
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Tales abound of sex workers swallowing used condoms when police storm in.
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Police shut down several parlors and arrested a bunch of sex workers.
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In fact, interactions with police can even turn deadly for sex workers.
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Really, sex workers prefer to look at this as 'worker,' 'management,' 'client.
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That's why I was accused of supporting the criminalization of sex workers.
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The law was assailed for endangering sex workers and stifling free speech.
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Why the sudden obsession with sex workers' financial responsibility to the government?
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It's why sex workers don't always turn to the police for help.
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As more sex workers got online, the safety resources continued to improve.
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Intravenous drug users and sex workers are often crossed off the list.
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The Obama administration, however, was not the most friendly to sex workers.
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He even said that the laws endanger the lives of sex workers.
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It's disconnecting many of the most vulnerable sex workers from crucial resources.
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For some marginalized groups of sex workers, police are their primary abusers.
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Sex workers can help keep each other safe by sharing information online.
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Authorities said the women were sex workers, although Harrison's family denies this.
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Sex workers are being forced out onto the streets to find clients.
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The bills are literally killing sex workers and nobody seems to care.
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Similarly, FOSTA/SESTA is disproportionately affecting trans, LGBTQ, and POC sex workers.
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Transgender women reported that police frequently assumed that they were sex workers.
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Start a new review board, this time run by sex workers themselves.
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How do accurate portrayals of sex workers further their rights and freedoms?
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Reddit shuttered discussion boards where sex workers discussed ways to stay safe.
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Instead of jail time, alleged sex workers would get six counseling sessions.
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In fact, even many of my fellow sex workers think this way.
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Ugandan sex workers are working without condoms because of Trump administration policy/
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I was in college when I first came across trans sex workers.
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Did you talk to any sex workers or porn stars or escorts?
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SESTA/FOSTA bill, which would actually be deeply harmful to sex workers.
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It's feminist, empowers sex workers, and is more than a little cyberpunk.
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Current and former sex workers can also lose custody of their children.
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These sex workers on film are a long way from Hollywood clichés.
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Sex workers walked past in red fish-nets and six-inch stilettos.
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All of the adult victims who have been identified were sex workers.
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Immigrant sex workers were targeted for raids and arrested as a result.
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The relationship between sex workers and clients fascinates us because it's taboo.
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Do not hide your prejudice against sex workers with fake worry. 298.
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They both described sex workers' interactions with police as violent and traumatic.
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Or itinerant sex workers from across the border in Myanmar and Cambodia?
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Here, sex workers don't get a say in what's said about them.
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What gets written on UK punting can put sex workers in danger.
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Even though that song is about sex workers, it would have fit.
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According to sex workers I've spoken with, this is a common message.
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Sex workers are some of the strongest people you will ever meet.
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" CHARLOTTE: "The correct term is 'trans' and trans sex workers deserve respect.
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Some sex workers are trafficking victims, but not all of them. 10.
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Don't ask sex workers if they've been assaulted or experienced childhood abuse.
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Some sex workers might consider themselves educators as well [and] porn performers.
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What would a world with no sex workers look like to you?
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Yet change, protection and equality are not being demanded for sex workers.
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He killed at least 10 women, many of them black sex workers.
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Some clients try to bribe sex workers to take meth, he says.
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And black sex workers are already more at the mercy of this.
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She also believes sex workers should have been warned of Gallese's reintegration.
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Sex workers in her field lack protection, which allows violence to happen.
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"Sex workers are often on the front line of violence," Shackleton said.
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Christa Daring, executive director of Sex Workers Outreach Project USA, a social justice network advocating for sex workers, said the stigma surrounding the type of work the women engaged in makes it more likely they will be hurt.
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Sex workers and their allies listen to activist Kate D'Amato at a meeting on Capitol Hill, where they converged June 1 to lobby lawmakers about problems they see with a new law targeting online ads for sex workers.
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There are around 4,500 Venezuelan sex workers in Colombia, some working in the capital, others in Caribbean tourist resorts and even in far-flung Amazon villages near the Brazilian border, according to ASMUBULI, a Colombian sex workers association.
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"This deeply concerning gap in supports for pregnant and parenting sex workers underscores the critical need for efforts to support reproductive rights and access to voluntary, respectful and appropriate maternal and parenting services for sex workers," Goldenberg said.
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"People who target sex workers for violence, stalking, and exploitation KNOW that we don't have recourse through traditional channels—the police and judicial systems fail us, many sex workers don't have familial resources, and the media and society at large engage in victim blaming of sex workers on a grand scale," adult performer Lorelei Lee told me, when we spoke previously about the bill over email.
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By ending the cat-and-mouse game of arresting sex workers, the zone has boosted trust: the number of sex workers willing to share their full details when reporting assaults to the police has risen, from 7% to 57%.
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Screenshot: Ugly Mugs/Google Play StoreWhen President Trump last year passed anti-trafficking legislation that led to the removal of online resources sex workers relied on to discuss violent clients, sex workers feared for their safety and fought back.
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Now, numerous prominent organizations and individuals have issued an open letter in support of sex workers calling for British Columbia Police to cease involvement in Operation Northern Spotlight, a countrywide covert police operation involving the catfishing of sex workers.
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The lurid image of the Junkie Whore — made up of media representations, misogyny, the blemish of criminalization, the defensive derision of other sex workers, and the exclusion of the straight world — looms over drug-using sex workers, obscuring us.
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According to research at the William Institute of Law at UCLA, the California law before its reform disproportionately affected women and people of color, and 20173 percent of HIV-specific criminal incidents impacted sex workers or suspected sex workers.
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The people claiming to report sex workers to the IRS are unlikely to have any idea whether sex workers are properly reporting their income for tax purposes, and are feeding on the stigma that already exists about sex work.
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But she's set an age limit of 45 before she moves on to focus more on her advocacy work, fighting for sex workers' rights; she's an ardent member of the Dutch Union of Sex Workers, also known as PROUD.
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To argue that men with violent tendencies and patterns of abusive behavior should seek out the services of sex workers is to suggest that violence and abuse against sex workers is somehow less abhorrent than violence against other women.
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Thailand has more than 123,530 sex workers, according to a 2014 UNAIDS report.
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It's an unconventional but pragmatic approach to fighting laws that isolate sex workers.
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Of course, sex workers have long been used as punchlines for misogynist jokes.
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Vermilion and Saini stressed that not all sex workers will be impacted equally.
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However, our laws need to catch up to the reality sex workers face.
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I hope that one day, sex workers are given the respect we deserve.
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Critics say it endangers sex workers and may impinge on free speech online.
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Many of them are abused mentally, sexually and even trafficked as sex workers.
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Sex workers, as precarious workers, have a lot to say to other workers.
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The sex workers' rights movement has been an amazing experience in political education.
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Wouldn't some people still need sex workers, even in a hypothetical ideal world?
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"We don't have a very open trusting relationship [with sex workers]," he says.
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It is the story of traumatized siblings, and the plight of sex workers.
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And the city holds a Christmas party for sex workers, the official said.
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The famous progressive, however, has been notably more tepid about supporting sex workers.
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Sex workers, not politicians, should lead the way in crafting sex work policy.
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Sex workers circle in and out of the criminal justice system for years.
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Under current laws, sex workers can collect public unemployment insurance and medical coverage.
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It was also a primary source of income for many independent sex workers.
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At that stage, late into the evening, around 50 sex workers were active.
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But ultimately, sex workers say that they need to have their voices heard.
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The game briefly features a lesbian android couple (who are also sex workers).
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According to consenting sex workers, it is a mistake to shut down Backpage.com.
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There's a police officer in Cape Town notorious among the city's sex workers.
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They also contacted a lot of other sex workers and sex worker advocates.
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He resigned from office after it was revealed he had patronized sex workers.
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Sex workers are voicing concerns about increasingly being pushed off social media platforms.
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The idea of government-funded sex workers has attracted controversy in the past.
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This perpetuates the myth that women can never be sex workers through choice.
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What: Organizers in DC are lobbying for sex workers by meeting with representatives.
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For many sex workers who use drugs, the work is simply about utility.
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Others condemned sex workers for colluding in their own oppression and sexual objectification.
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But the empowered sex worker isn't representative of the majority of sex workers.
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Condom use among sex workers rose above 99 percent, according to government surveys.
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Sex workers and advocates say SESTA shut down online platforms such as Backpage.
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Like New Zealand's decriminalization effort, New York's is led by sex workers themselves.
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Similarly, few studies included data on trans female and cis-male sex workers.
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They were forced to become sex workers in mining communities in northern Mali.
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These days, stigma leveraged at sex workers threatens my relationship to my children.
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An estimated 400,000 sex workers operate in Spain, according to Spanish government figures.
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There's a lot of fantastic sex workers I have lined up to shoot.
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Some people claim the legislation is feminist because sex workers themselves are decriminalized.
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All the sex workers I know have such intelligence and knowledge about humanity.
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That's what she's saying Have you shown the film to any sex workers?
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Any money raised will be poured into the support of these sex workers.
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This results—as is confirmed by Amnesty International—in violence against sex workers.
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For the UK's estimated 72,800 sex workers, this could mean safer working practices.
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There are 13,530 sex workers in Thailand, according to a 2014 UNAIDS report.
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For sex workers, all of this marks the erasure of vital online communities.
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According to Lola, online communities provide all sorts of supports to sex workers.
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Sex workers would have been just fine, as would have been brothel staff.
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"If people want to support sex workers, pay for their content," Mazzei sighs.
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Anyway, I've asked some current sex workers how the game could be improved.
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Instead of blaming sex workers, point fingers at who's actually at fault. 823.
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Surveillance software infringes upon sex workers' privacy under the guise of ending trafficking.
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That's why sex workers say they are taking extra precautions to stay safe.
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That leaves a lot of sex workers outside the focus of this inquiry.
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Sex workers successfully defended themselves then and now they must do so again.
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It's blamed for shutting down sites used by sex workers to stay safe.
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It also violates sex workers' rights to freedom of association and free speech.
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Underage sex workers in revealing drag attach themselves like leeches to prospective clients.
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If Dolgin succeeds, it'll connect sex workers to effective legal representation as well.
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And—despite social seclusion—everyday women have much to thank sex workers for.
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This is happening in a climate of increasing criminalization against queer sex workers.
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Activists argue that decriminalization should instead be limited only to sex workers themselves.
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Several sites that allowed sex workers to vet potential clients shut down entirely.
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Artists and sex workers will offer their insights at Public School Los Angeles.
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They just don't suffer from the same problems that female sex workers do.
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"It is outdated to treat sex workers as a tourist attraction," he added.
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" They shouted a common mantra for sex workers: "Nothing about us without us.
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"We want sex workers to stop by on their lunch breaks," explains Fyre.
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Not all sex workers are doing this because they want to feel empowered.
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The group has regular meetings where sex workers can discuss problems ranging from abusive pimps to police extortion, they said, as well as legal services if sex workers are arrested on the street during the periodic sweeps the city conducts.
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The underlying problem for sex workers is that prostitution became illegal in France in 1960 (France is a signatory to the Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons), which means sex workers can't apply for full medical coverage.
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If you support more social protection and rights for sex workers, be sure to follow STRASS's campaigns and agenda , tell friends in the sex workers community to get unionized and find out about their rights and claims to social benefits.
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In Scotland, a recent vote to develop a version of the so-called Nordic model—a widely-criticized framework that criminalizes clients but not sex workers—has led to sex workers unionizing with the support of trade union GMB Scotland.
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The Sex Workers Outreach Project noted in a statement that services like Backpage provide sex workers with a place to freely discuss potentially dangerous clients, establish boundaries with clients ahead of time, and protect them from police abuse and violence.
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A small public museum dedicated to the history of sex work in Amsterdam, it serves as an office for Hella, Yvette and the dozen or so sex workers and ex-sex workers that make up the rest of PROUD's core team.
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The message she and about three dozen other sex workers had for Congress was simple — in the rush earlier this year to address growing public concern over the trafficking of children and women, they've made sex workers' lives much harder.
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The reader is left convinced that the sex workers' rights struggle is relevant not just for sex workers, not just for feminists, and not just for clients—it's relevant to absolutely everyone who has to work for a living under capitalism.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Sex workers around the world face violence, rape, widespread discrimination and extortion, a global human rights watchdog said on Thursday, with male or transgender sex workers facing further stigma from the police, clients and the community.
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When I was a tech journalist, I focused a lot on the intersection of technology and sex, so I had the opportunity to meet and become friends with a number of sex workers who were also sex workers rights activists.
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Just another workplace scene, except the women are all sex workers who meet their clients at Can Do Bar, which they own as a collective, benefitting from health insurance, fixed hours and time off - which are typically denied to sex workers.
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PROUD, the Dutch union for sex workers, and five other activist groups, called on the government to set up an emergency fund for undocumented sex workers and self-employed people who are facing tough choices because they have no income.
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While Monica has it easier than many other sex workers from the mainland—a marriage to a Hong Kong man permitted her an identity card—sex workers from China often don't have the legal right to work in the city.
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PROUD, the Dutch union for sex workers, and five other activist groups, called on the government to set up an emergency fund for undocumented sex workers and self-employed people who are facing tough choices because they have no income.
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Kaytlin Bailey, communications director for Decriminalize Sex Work, told BuzzFeed News that she accepted the concerns of sex workers in DC. "Sex workers in DC asked us with one voice to get out, and we are honoring that," she said.
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If a government-backed study produces more data to confirm what sex workers are saying, "the next step is to then repeal the bill," or at least the parts that are having the most negative impact on sex workers, Khanna said.
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The exhibit contains photographs, videos, media artifacts, and objects by queer sex workers in the US. Curator Alexis Heller produced the show in consultation with sex workers, like Red Canary Song organizer and Kink Out founder, Yin Q. During the week of "Heaven on Fourth," which took place from November 14 to November 23, Yin spoke on a panel in the museum about sex workers in arts and activism.
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There are no hard numbers of how many women are sex workers in Tijuana.
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Moira was one of the forced sex workers Fred raped before she escaped Gilead.
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But the law has also attracted significant opposition, especially from sex workers rights organizations.
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So the researchers initially recruited sex workers with syphilis to have sex with prisoners.
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Jessica Ramos speaks at a rally of current and former sex workers in Albany.
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Now, only four to five sex workers congregate in the area, according to Amy.
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A district attorney said Ortiz preyed on sex workers in the Laredo, Texas, area.
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Pimps, who'd long preyed on sex workers' need for protection, became an endangered species.
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For sex workers, SESTA cuts to the heart of the core principle of consent.
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Advocates say that many of the trans women killed each year were sex workers.
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NOW, like many big women's rights groups, has never meaningfully addressed sex workers' rights.
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Sex workers, therefore, received the message that the work they do is itself violence.
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It was beautiful to know people actually cared and were listening to sex workers.
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I'm an escort and the President of the Sex Workers Solidarity Society at Goldsmiths.
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I know other sex workers are in fear of how doctors will treat them.
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For those providers, it's no big deal; for survival sex workers, it's self-destruction.
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"We've been arresting more sex workers," said Chit Ko Ko, a Yangon police captain.
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"I'm working on an outreach program for sex workers right now," Holloway tells me.
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Consequently, the platform for sex workers to advertise their trade online is under threat.
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The courts referred sex workers to mental health services and offered help with housing.
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One June Pictures employee was allegedly told to pay sex workers on Duncan's orders.
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A bunch of different people—college students, drug dealers, sex workers, strippers, and artists.
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Rincon tells me the new legislation has forced sex workers into a double bind.
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She and another peer educator had recently conducted outreach visits to Kabul sex workers.
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She hopes to extend this distribution to Kabul's outskirts and reach 1,000 sex workers.
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It coincides with the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers on Monday.
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How do you think bringing real sex workers into the fold impacted the show?
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Sex workers, like gay men, are sometimes reluctant to access generic sexual health services.
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Be an advocate for and ally to sex workers without speaking for them. 34.
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"The general public isn't actually interested in the safety of sex workers," Roux said.
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It's typically something clients ask of sex workers and is always negotiated up front.
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And this fear of overzealous enforcement is felt most acutely by migrant sex workers.
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Meanwhile people from Edo state mostly control trafficking of sex workers, notably to Europe.
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This is a universally ignorant position to take, because sex workers are, generally, ingenious.
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But the question remains: Has America changed enough to take sex workers' voices seriously?
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HIV-positive individuals in the 1980s and 1990s (many of them sex workers), the
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In other words, driving sex workers to sex jobs is a big no-no.
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Some in law enforcement defend arrests as an intervention meant to help sex workers.
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But immigrant trans sex workers remain a visible and organized part of the community.
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What does it look like for sex workers to have rights in the workplace?
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" She acknowledged her coalition, "from formerly incarcerated folks to sex workers to undocumented immigrants.
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Katswe Sisterhood fights for sex workers to gain sexual and reproductive health and rights.
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The paper also states that policy reform is needed to improve sex workers' safety.
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Of all the sex workers arrested at Nataree, nearly 100 were foreigners, Thepphitak said.
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"For some people, sex workers are some sort of underclass or outcasts," he says.
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But beyond that, they choose not to venture, whatever sex workers might tell them.
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So will sex workers, LGBTQ* people of color, and queer activists currently battling deportation.
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In Norway, sex workers were still being fined years after they'd supposedly been decriminalized.
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Sex workers' rights organizers called her November upset a "game changer" for their movement.
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She says she hired sex workers during tour because she was lonely and desperate.
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Learn directly from nonwhite sex workers on Twitter, where they've chosen to be public.
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When you speak up against police brutality, it needs to include sex workers. 57.
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The answer, as sex workers have been saying this whole time, is clearly no.
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Some are sex workers, already a profession that suffers under the threat of violence.
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Sex workers have always screened clients, negotiated terms, gathered information and created communities/networks.
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You won't read about sex workers' contributions to women's rights in the history books.
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How does this relate to the current political environment sex workers find themselves in?
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Whether sex workers and sex robots can actually deliver real fulfillment is another matter.
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There are real issues on Instagram, but they have a problem with sex workers.
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Elizabeth Warren and Andrew Yang courting the votes of those who respect sex workers.
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I know, because — despite rampant prejudice and discrimination against sex workers — I did it.
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Very few people on Capitol Hill, she said, discuss the rights of sex workers.
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Get an inside look from women who now hold valid IDs as sex workers.
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It's a subject of continuing feminist debate, from Madonna's heyday to sex workers' unions.
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Onstage or off duty, sex workers' accouterments form the subversive foundation of role play.
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Sex workers have rightly raised issues with its failure to meaningfully address their concerns.
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A 2014 photo of sex workers at the Dolly prostitution complex in Surabaya, Indonesia.
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They even have a national sex workers union called Hanteo to represent their interests.
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Without the legal paperwork, trans sex workers also have no legal recognition or protection.
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Violence against sex workers, women, and LGBT people like Kader is unfortunately not uncommon.
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WATCH: The Battle for Sex-Workers Rights There is another client I'll never forget.
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To the contrary, sex workers face an elevated risk of rape, abuse, and murder.
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For her, video games rely on the stereotype that sex workers are dependent victims.
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In the call for sex workers rights organizations including the Black Sex Workers Collective, find it important to call attention to the intersecting interests that encompass the issue: reproductive rights, labor laws, and representation of the LGBTQ community, to name a few.
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Sangini was modeled on the country's oldest bank for sex workers - Usha Cooperative - in Kolkata's red light district of Sonagachi and was the first such in Mumbai to help sex workers save money that could help them escape to a different future.
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One thing, however, is clear: Until the conversation includes actual sex workers and peer-led harm reduction organizations instead of celebrity PSAs and inflated scare statistics, we're not going to be able to help victims or lessen violence against consensual sex workers.
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Not only do migrant sex workers face the threat of deportation—six sex workers from the migrant sex worker group Butterfly were deported last December—but the fear of going to law enforcement for help leaves many more susceptible to violent situations.
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Opera like you've never seen it before... The common thread running through each story in the opera is "whore stigma" or sex workers stigma — the perception that sex workers are not only "morally corrupt and socially unproductive," but are "vectors" for disease.
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In Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers' Rights, out now on Verso, they highlight the voices, desires, and beliefs of sex workers and situate their work firmly within a broader historical and socio-political dialogue about global labor rights and feminism.
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The screening and training that Pineapple Support provides its clients is a much-needed resource, as the majority of therapists either aren't aware of the particular issues faced by sex workers or come to these sessions with inaccurate, stereotypical ideas about sex workers.
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"Arresting young sex workers entrenches their vulnerability, while at the same time reducing the likelihood that they'll report to the police if they are attacked," says Alex Feis-Bryce of the National Ugly Mugs (NUM), an organization that helps sex workers stay safe.
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Experts reckon there may be millions of sex workers in China, most of them women.
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"The media focuses on the sordid aspects of sex workers' lives," she told VICE Impact.
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Craig said the police department's outreach with sex workers helped lead to the man's arrest.
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And she advocated tirelessly on behalf of sex workers, prisoners and people with HIV/AIDS.
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Sex workers all around the world face discrimination when they seek housing or other employment.
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This leaves many sex workers without critical details that might be vital to our safety.
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Amy went up to the sex workers and asked if they would talk to me.
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But Solis said he doesn't believe Ortiz ever picked up sex workers or used drugs.
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Able to advertise online and screen potential clients, sex workers began moving off the streets.
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And in New York, sex workers pinned their hopes on Julia Salazar to do that.
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She was a vocal supporter of sex workers, and assisted in and documented their rallies.
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After all, I was going into a government building defending the rights of sex workers.
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As an attorney, I've been representing and advocating for sex workers for over 15 years.
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Meghan Markle used her influence to remind people how vulnerable street sex workers can be.
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In Alabama, a doctor recruited sex workers to come to his clinic and get drugs.
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Included were forums where sex-workers exchanged warnings about violent customers and screen potential clients.
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And few bystanders seem to have much sympathy for sex workers who come under assault.
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I spoke to sex workers across different areas of the industry about their dating lives.
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Senegal is the only place in Africa where sex workers are regulated by the state.
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The local government say they have no idea how many women operate as sex workers.
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Sex workers must find ways to stay safe while evading the attention of the authorities.
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"The law is a moral judgement of society against sex workers and clients," Rincon says.
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She tweeted about the book and called it 'obsessed' with prostitution and sex-workers' rights.
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And actually the sex workers probably feel like the money they're getting benefits their lives.
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So what happens when these conversations take a turn that sex workers are uncomfortable with?
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Now, another group is coming out against it — the legally operating sex workers in Nevada.
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Thankfully, attitudes towards marital rape have since changed—but it hasn't budged for sex workers.
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Many sex workers have also had their fair share of run-ins with the police.
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Customers know to look here for sex, and the sex workers take clients off-site.
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Needless to say, this affects the livelihoods of already vulnerable sex workers first and foremost.
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Sex workers take care of our health, because it's in our interest to do so.
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Condoms can burst, and when they do, sex workers are often reluctant to seek healthcare.
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MELISSA: The show highlights that [police] are not arresting sex workers for public safety issues.
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It shows that while all these [people] are sex workers, they enjoy their work differently.
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What the series makes painfully clear is that very little has changed for sex workers.
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Twitter, in particular, Lain said, has been a known hub for sex workers for years.
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What are the real-life consequences of representing sex workers in devalued ways in games?
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Attorneys will be present to explain how the enactment of FOSTA/SESTA affects sex workers.
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"The most pressing concern facing migrant sex workers in Canada is violence," she told VICE.
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Sex workers are cast aside to the point of being the butt of a joke.
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To some sex workers, however, the direction that sex trafficking law is taking is worrying.
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And it's far too big of a social problem for sex workers alone to solve.
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As sex workers have moved to the internet, the government has maintained a steady pursuit.
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"Everybody admits there is a very high level of violence against sex workers," said Adams.
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Sex workers also face the possibility of losing custody of their children and being evicted.
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Here are 10 things that matter to sex workers, as well as women in general.
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We examine the "Swedish model" of prostitution laws, and how the approach endangers sex workers.
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" Meredith Spriggs "I'm a pastor and over the years, sex workers have always supported me.
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More worryingly, she says, it also led to an increase in violence against sex workers.
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Another way sex workers maintain that essential boundary between their work and their personal lives?
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Consent is meaningless and sex workers who claim otherwise are delusional puppets of the patriarchy.
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The bravery and resilience of sex workers has played a part in many liberation struggles.
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But working towards both de-stigmatization and decriminalization will help create safety for sex workers.
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The site is funded by sex workers themselves, who pay to have their profiles displayed.
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Studies show that violence against women decreases when online advertising is available to sex workers.
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What issues do women of color in the industry face that white sex workers don't?
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Violence against sex workers sky rocketed because clients knew they could get away with it.
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To me, it's very, very important to treat sex workers with respect and with dignity.
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You included a sex workers' advocate character, so did you talk to the Scarlet Alliance?
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It's tough as a woman to get into a brothel and talk to sex workers!
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To our clients, we are just sex workers—they don't think we're human at all.
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To anyone who's actually listened to sex workers, the implications of this are a terrifying.
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"This is something that you can find across the board with sex workers," she said.
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At the end of 2017, Rina was one of 105 sex workers on the island.
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Saving sex workers from yeasty outbreaks might not be the primary intention of XXX Twitter.
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Read This Next: An Abortion is Still a Death Sentence for Many Cambodian Sex Workers
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Nowadays, most UK sex workers make their livings indoors, either working for agencies or independently.
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Especially during "line-ups" [the sex workers line up while a customer picks and choses].
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They seek acceptance from sex workers, through paid interactions, when they can't find it elsewhere.
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These include drive-in booths, where customers can meet sex workers in their own vehicles.
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While some COVID-19 relief funds do exist for sex workers, they are very limited.
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Nor would the office charge sex workers with a crime before a third prostitution conviction.
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Dozens of sex workers have since launched similar campaigns, raising hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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"I do not believe sex workers should be arrested — that's a no-brainer," she said.
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OnlyFans is a British social media platform popular with influencers, porn actors, and sex workers.
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"A lot of the sex workers don't have the means to say no," says Zhu.
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There are sections of the forum dedicated to clients discussing their experiences with sex workers.
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Independent sex workers can advertise, although websites that host such ads are violating the law.
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Data on how many male sex workers are nonprofessionals is also hard to come by.
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She's fighting because Amsterdam, she said, isn't as liberal for sex workers as many believe.
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No sex workers or sex worker rights groups testified in hearings on the laws, Rep.
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Do you think the relationship between sex workers and the police around here has changed?
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When it's criminalized, sex workers have to prioritize police evasion strategies over health and safety.
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And after an attack, sex workers may also be afraid to come forward with information.
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We asked Savannah Sly, a board member and Chapter Relations Coordinator for Sex Workers Outreach Project-USA who has been a sex worker for 11 years, to break down for us why the public is so much more interested in what Lena Dunham thinks of sex work than what sex workers think — and what Dunham and her fellow celebs are missing when it comes to protecting sex workers' health, rights, and dignity.
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"That pushed more people to the street and caused more deaths and allowed clients to harm, and push the limits of, sex workers," said Jill McCracken, codirector of the Sex Workers Outreach Project Behind Bars and a professor at the University of South Florida.
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Read more: Pimps Are Preying on Sex Workers Pushed Off the Web Because of FOSTA-SESTA In the US and other countries where sex work is criminalized, going to the authorities is often not a viable option—for sex workers, and for women in general.
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While this is also an issue for all survival sex workers, an underlying concern is the increasing number of transgender women violently attacked and murdered every year—violence sex workers may be more susceptible to if they can't negotiate with clients in a safe environment.
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When I started thinking about how sex work is represented in video games and what other feminists were saying about it, I was really struck that the current conversation was about how sex workers in video games were objectified just because they were sex workers.
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In this press release, the Sex Workers Outreach Project–USA describe the socialized belief that sex workers are unsuitable parents as both "inaccurate and part of a broader, deplorable pattern" where systematically marginalized groups are deemed as unfit parents and subjected to state interference.
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Many sex workers from all over the country came to Capitol Hill for one day to speak with their representatives about the impact of FOSTA/SESTA—a recently-passed law that is supposed to address trafficking, but which has had serious consequences for sex workers.
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" Magalie Lerman, a board member at the Sex Workers Outreach Project-USA, says that since there's stigma against hepatitis and against sex workers, "if someone is honest about being a sex worker in health care settings, they will most likely face... a bunch of stigma.
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And meth use among black sex workers has rocketed too; more than half (57.9%) of black and Latino male sex workers in LA reported that they have exchanged sex for meth, according to a 2018 study by the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.
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"We are banning tours that take visitors along sex workers' windows, not only because we want to prevent overcrowding in the red-light district, but also because it is not respectful to sex workers," Amsterdam Deputy Mayor Udo Kock told The Times in a statement.
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The resulting bill, called the SESTA-FOSTA Examination of Secondary Effects for Sex Workers Study Act (or the SAFE SEX Workers Study Act for short), will direct the Department of Health and Human Services to conduct a study of FOSTA-SESTA's effects within one year.
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Rather than shaming sex workers, today, my shame resides in knowing that the stigma our society feels against sex workers, especially trans women of color, comes after denying to ourselves that we continually oppress people who are already among the United States' most severely oppressed.
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"We are banning tours that take visitors along sex workers' windows, not only because we want to prevent overcrowding in the red-light district, but also because it is not respectful to sex workers," Udo Kock, Amsterdam's deputy mayor, said in a statement on Wednesday.
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"Educating yourself on what it means to remove criminal penalties for sex work to listen to sex workers, to hear their voices and read their stories to focus on what sex workers need instead of what [you think] they should be doing," said Jindasa.
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Jim Lawson, sex workers in Nicaragua, celebrity impersonators, and the oil towns of western North Dakota.
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The UK's interest in censoring sites that support sex workers shouldn't come as a total surprise.
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Many aging sex workers in Sonagachi also have high blood sugar, which risks developing into diabetes.
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The site's open policies allowed a community of sex workers and adult content stars to flourish.
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A Democrat who believes in increased criminalization will sign the death warrant for countless sex workers.
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And so I interviewed sex workers in Shenzhen, Dongguang, a neighboring city, Beijing, and other cities.
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Other made a choice to become sex workers, because their other professional options were extremely limited.
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The Justice Department also recently shut down Backpage, an ads platform frequently used by sex workers.
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On top of that, the stigma can have a negative impact on sex workers' mental health.
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Backpage was a classifieds site that had become known as a safe marketplace for sex workers.
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The worst example of this we documented is when sex workers are outed to their clients.
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The morning sun dazzles: in the shade of large trees two sex-workers wait for custom.
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Thanks to this system, sex workers are one of the vulnerable members of The Deuce society.
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It's also created solidarity between legal sex workers and those who engage in illegal sex work.
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In addition to targeting illegal sex work, it's also resulted in repercussions for legal sex workers.
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Long, who is transgender, said that trans sex workers will also suffer because of Backpage's demise.
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Meanwhile, some suggest that cracking down on sites like Backpage places sex workers in more danger.
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Immigrant sex workers are often the biggest victims of this conflation of sex trafficking with prostitution.
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Observing the rush to join a new platform, some sex workers have expressed skepticism about Switter.
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Alaniz described Ortiz as a "serial killer" who preyed on sex workers whom he picked up.
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This is the core of the argument behind Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers' Rights.
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The abolition of sex work is such a fraught question within the sex workers' rights movement.
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In 2017 alone, at least 150 sex workers were murdered around the world, according to December17.
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But he vehemently denied the allegations of abuse made by activists, legal aides and sex workers.
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I told my husband, right then and there, I wanted him to drive sex workers forever.
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By law, all legal sex workers must visit the doctor each week for STD/STI testing.
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"When (transgender people in Turkey) become sex workers, they face a lot of problems," Teson said.
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In April the court ruled sex workers should be given work visas and their rights protected.
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Many are renounced by their families as teenagers, and end up as beggars or sex workers.
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Backpage became a central part of the discussion around the legislation, which many sex workers opposed.
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Around 3PM ET on April 17th, Switter — a social media space for sex workers — went offline.
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Previous attempts to reform the way sex workers are prosecuted in New York have largely failed.
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Police efforts to focus on customers, meanwhile, have often resulted in sex workers being arrested too.
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Sex workers remember Harris's support of FOSTA, and her prosecutorial past as Attorney General of California.
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Many sex workers do not sign up to the initiative because they face discrimination and marginalisation.
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The English Collective of Prostitutes, a pro-legalization group said the study confirmed sex workers' experience.
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And obviously we need decriminalization to protect sex workers—the legislation around sex work is ridiculous.
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Instead, they focus on the community most affected by the serial killer: Long Island's sex workers.
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They do it by surveilling and following sex workers around, which impacts heavily on our lives.
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Sex workers said they were already suffering from the bar on sharing adult material on Tumblr.
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What should other films and shows be doing to advocate for the sex workers they depict?
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Sex workers are self-censoring on social media to try to avoid removal from mainstream sites.
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She's now worried about how she will advertise, find clients, and connect with other sex workers.
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There are no official statistics collected on the number of sex workers killed in the country.
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This kind of delay in bringing suspects to trial for murdering sex workers is not new.
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"The criminalization of prostitution increases sex workers' risk of experiencing violence, exploitation, and trafficking," Lutnick argues.
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With no recognizable place to advertise, sex workers could be driven further underground, further from safety.
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The ways that AAA video games represent sex workers can definitely have harmful, real-life implications.
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Sex workers are already in an enormously precarious position because of the cultural biases against them.
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"Clients have been central to many sex workers' experience of 'sexiting' (leaving sex work)," Bowen explains.
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Women documentarians "give a voice" to sex workers by taking the words out of their mouths.
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Sex workers who oppose the law were scheduled to protest neat the National Assembly on Wednesday.
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Sex workers remain "at high risk of violence and abuse" but rarely turn to the police.
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Current and former sex workers, we know, can be a constellation of any of these identities.
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The claim that FOSTA-SESTA will harm 'sex workers' is a myth that must be challenged.
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FOSTA amended Section 230 to create new legal liability for online platforms that sex workers used.
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Like Ramos, Ocasio-Cortez has met with sex workers in Jackson Heights to address their concerns.
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Like sex workers, we want legislative victories that protect our rights and afford us more freedoms.
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As more people piled into the conversation to defend or degrade sex workers, it kept spreading.
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He helped found Durbar, a roughly 65,000-member union of sex workers across West Bengal state.
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I don't know how to liberate all sex workers from the bonds of stigma and discrimination.
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But finding clients is just one small part of what technology can do for sex workers.
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Others continue to argue that these women weren't enslaved at all and were actually sex workers.
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In the documentary, you'll get an intimate glimpse at sex workers' personal lives and living environments.
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But until Patel's campaign heard from Balcon, it was missing the connection to actual sex workers.
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Since the raids, New Orleans entertainers—dancers, employees, sex workers, and allies alike—have banded together.
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As a marketing strategy, many sex workers aim to appeal to the wealthiest possible client demographic.
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"The predators are out and about trying to get [sex workers] to lower rates," she said.
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Because on the site it's not the law that's stigmatising, discriminating, insulting and stereotyping sex workers.
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"[Sex workers' problems are] not any more difficult than any other self-employed person," Burns admits.
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Victorians largely believed that only sex workers were responsible for the disease's spread, not their customers.
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Few deaths in movies are handled with the contempt that some filmmakers show murdered sex workers.
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If you want to know how to support trans sex workers about this, ask them. 40.
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Ask most UK sex workers and they'll tell you the current law is dangerous and shambolic.
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However, as Mallick suggested, sex workers and adult entertainers rarely receive proper credit for their contributions.
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She seems less insecure about aging compared to a lot of the sex workers of Banishanta.
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It wasn't the only time I heard one of the sex workers reminisce about the past.
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Worldwide, sex workers are 2100 times as likely as the general population to be HIV positive.
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It's early days, but already it has connected with thousands of sex workers and truck drivers.
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I think it's also made things harder for sex workers that are not as tech savvy.
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"Designers make reference to sex workers to communicate toughness," said James Kaliardos, a founder of Visionaire.
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And now Abby's out on a minibus patrolling the area, looking for sex workers to support.
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But she wants to continue to financially support sex workers through following them on Only Fans.
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An earlier version of this article described incorrectly the criterion for charging sex workers in Philadelphia.
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But now sex workers have "completely shaped" his bill with Senator Warren to assess SESTA/FOSTA.
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By the mid-1990s, Korean sex workers had virtually disappeared from Dongducheon and other camp towns.
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Many sex workers come from marginalized populations and are, almost by definition, in a survival economy.
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She points out that sex workers lack cash, and their clients don't necessarily donate to advocacy.
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Sex workers told BuzzFeed News that despite the changes, they still had difficulty navigating the rules.
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Sex workers and women in hazardous occupations such as construction and mining are routinely discriminated against.
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I've heard people say that the only two recession-proof industries are undertakers and sex workers.
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Decades later, June 2 is still recognized as International Whores' Day by sex workers' rights groups.
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How do sex workers manage the anxiety of being caught and facing very real criminal risks?
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Where does Australia fit compared to the rest the world in its treatment of sex workers?
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More recently, in 2017, sex workers in Bangladesh recounted to Motherboard how flooding threatens their livelihoods.
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It's a grotesque, dehumanizing stance that suggests that sex workers are a different breed of woman.
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For the first time ever, sex workers were a lobbying force in the halls of Congress.
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Young Nigerian girls and women are often trafficked to Europe via Libya to become sex workers.
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Broadly's findings come soon after the Home Affairs committee recommended the UK immediately decriminalize sex workers.
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A 2009 study by TAMPEP, the European Network for HIV/STI Prevention and Health Promotion among Migrant Sex Workers, estimated migrant workers make up about 65 percent of sex workers a list of European countries, including Denmark, where there are high numbers from Nigeria and Thailand.
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Sex workers have long engaged in political activism and human rights advocacy — Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, two transgender sex workers of color, were instrumental in the Stonewall Inn uprising in 1969 — although their lives are often left in the margins and their contributions erased.
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Sex workers and advocates gathered on Capitol Hill on June 1 to make the case for sex worker rights and to raise awareness about FOSTA-SESTA, a law that was posed as a way to end sex trafficking but which sex workers say is literally killing them.
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" She now worries that sex workers will now be discouraged from reporting crimes to police or calling for medical assistance, for fear of being tried for prostitution-related crimes: "In areas where unjust prosecutions have been brought, attacks on sex workers go up, and prosecutions go down.
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According to a 2016 study published in the Journal of Sex Research, the risk of physical violence or rape among sex workers who advertise their services online is "minimal" compared to sex workers who work on the streets, though violence in both arenas is still ever present.
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While sex work may be legal in Tijuana, sex workers are still treated as second-class citizens.
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I don't have a brothel area where I can take them, like [other] female sex workers do.
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What is Gingeras's goal, with her exhibition title equating these artists to sex workers, beyond mere sensationalism?
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Smyth said that the ability to screen calls can be essential to some sex workers' personal safety.
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Ireland, like many countries in the world that criminalize sex work, is incredibly dangerous for sex workers.
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With growing global momentum behind the sex workers' rights movement, I expect many more successes to come.
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Call the emergency number for Lady Mermaid's Bureau (LMB) - a sex workers' advocacy organization - and beep once.
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He'd already been accused of helping copyright violators, sex workers, ISIS, and a litany of other deplorables.
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She began to organize fellow sex workers and get involved in activist efforts to defend transgender rights.
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Sex workers have made some progress in bringing attention to the harms of criminalizing sex work policies.
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These steps could prevent sex trafficking without interfering with consensual sex workers' safety or harming internet freedom.
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Nobody wants 13-year-old girls to be locked up and become, you know, forced sex workers.
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I think sex workers are coming out and talking about their experiences and doing really rad things.
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With its seizure, some sex workers lost their primary way to find and communicate with potential clients.
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" He also called Arianna Huffington a "pig" and said sex workers in Florida are "slutty and pathetic.
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Law enforcement argue they are helping victims, while sex workers say police are the ones victimizing them.
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It also reveals how hard it is to prove a lack of consent — especially for sex workers.
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But Lam explained stats pertaining to migrant sex workers are hard to come by, let alone measure.
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Meanwhile, the day of the changes coincides with the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers.
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In Baby, two high-schoolers in the posh Paroli district of Rome begin working as sex workers.
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More importantly, she's determined to break stigmas surrounding both sex workers and artists who embrace their sexuality.
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It has also pushed back social taboos by ensuring that drug users and sex workers are treated.
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Prostitution is legal in Senegal, so long as sex workers have health check-ups every three months.
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Many messages were from sex workers asking for advice on how to work on the streets safely.
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Evidence suggests that SESTA/FOSTA could reverse a 17 percent reduction in homicides targeting female sex workers.
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If sex workers are forced to work in backchannels of the web, it only furthers harmful stereotypes.
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Cassadine also says many trans women rely on liquid silicone to increase their value as sex workers.
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The majority of men who go to seek out services of sex workers are basically regular guys.
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And growing numbers of sex workers ply their trade indoors or online, making them hard to count.
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Yet the number of sex workers in Ireland who tell the police about such crimes has fallen.
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Most of these crimes were reportedly committed against sex workers, who have no legal recognition or protection.
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Near large bases you'll find districts with high concentrations of sex workers, bar hostesses, and so on.
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Alessandra Biaggi who won their 2018 elections with sex workers' rights as part of their campaign platforms.
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At the time of the raid, police reportedly encountered 117 sex workers and more than 100 clients.
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This industry and the sex workers in this industry have broadened my language and understanding about sexuality.
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"For these ignorant ideas to shift, people need to hear more from sex workers themselves," Gemma says.
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She and her colleagues belong to Empower, a sex-workers' rights organization with an estimated 50,000 members.
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Each zone normally spans several city blocks, where sex workers are employed as servers, masseuses, and dancers.
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Intimacy of any kind for transgender sex workers is conditional, and for some more so than others.
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Although sex workers perceive these websites as decreasing their likelihood of victimization, subcommittee ranking minority member Sen.
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But for many trans sex workers in Hong Kong, the threat of danger is real and present.
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The [sex workers] would see my dick, say, WOW, this is big, why don't you do porn?
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VerifyHim, a website used by sex workers to ensure a client isn't dangerous, removed its discussion boards.
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Systems that are in place to facilitate safer conditions for sex workers are still constantly under attack.
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While most violence against sex workers is carried out by clients, the police are not far behind.
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Arbitrary arrests of sex workers are common, despite a High Court order in 20093 specifically banning it.
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Sex workers run a great risk if they are identified: they may be evicted, arrested, or deported.
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Russia has the best sex workers in the world, but Trump certainly wouldn't have taken the bait.
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"It's at least good to see sex workers worrying about their own and pulling together," Genevieve said.
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We talked to sex workers of different types—strippers, some friends that we have who are escorts.
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Prior to entering academia, Bowen spent decades working as an advocate with sex workers in western Canada.
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But as current and former sex workers know, it can be more complicated than simply getting paid.
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Activists in the sex-workers' movement tend to be educated and make hundreds of dollars an hour.
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Other feminists, who called themselves "sex positive," saw sex workers as subverters of patriarchy, not as victims.
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Seattle, for example, has announced a shift toward arresting male clients and connecting sex workers with services.
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But for now, on Twitter at least, it seems that sex workers are safe from the banhammer.
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But I remain involved in advocating for the human rights of sex workers in my nonfiction writing.
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To survive, many end up on the streets as sex workers where they face violence, Suarez said.
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This was just one reason why both sex workers and people who have been trafficked opposed SESTA.
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In Deadwood, most women, particularly the sex workers, are treated abysmally by the men, who outnumber them.
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Groups that represent the rights of sex workers back the initiative as convenient, discreet and medically important.
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The California and Seattle website clamp downs were criticized by the advocacy group Sex Workers Outreach Project.
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I don't buy that a group of sex workers that big didn't contain a single queer person.
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Current and former sex workers are considered a danger to society and unfit for serious public service.
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They used sex workers to create their following and now we're no longer to post pornographic content.
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Federal prosecutors have alleged that Backpage allowed ads for sex workers that featured underage sex trafficking victims.
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I don't know what the hell this country is thinking, taking away our rights as sex workers.
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As it happens, some sex workers have excellent practices on hand for screening people they meet online.
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In prostitution, for example, often with organized crime–run operations, there wasn't independence offered to sex workers.
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In prostitution, for example, often with organized crime–run operations, there wasn't independence offered to sex workers.
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Being in some sex workers' homes, it totally seems like some tend to be into "nerdy" stuff.
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Huntley also stresses that trans people, two-spirit people, and sex workers are undercounted in these statistics.
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That way, he says, sex workers may feel more comfortable reporting incidents of abuse without being questioned.
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It should be obvious, but it's also the "normal things" that sex workers need to outright survive.
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Many young, independent sex workers lack the funds, education, and technology to set up Bitcoin for themselves.
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"It's generally not only the sex with sex workers, but the secrecy around [that behavior]," Kerner explained.
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More recently, sex workers were deeply involved in anti-gentrification protests around Gezi Park in Istanbul, Turkey.
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I don't expect much protection from a man who once suggested that sex workers can't be raped.
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Police hate sex workers to the extent that they bring malicious prosecutions against women in these circumstances.
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In the media, sex workers are always portrayed as tragic victims of drug addiction or sex trafficking.
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This post has been updated to reflect that Broadly spoke to both porn performers and sex workers.
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Her lawyer was able to reach a settlement but, for many sex workers, this isn't the case.
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Ask how you can safely, privately, and accessibly pay sex workers in the ways they prefer. 43.
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Police violence is a huge problem for sex workers, especially Black, Indigenous, East Asian, and trans people.
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The Nordic model of criminalizing clients does not help prostitutes—instead, it increases danger for sex workers.
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Baby has some tips for sex workers navigating social media platforms they are increasingly feeling unwelcome on.
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Many print publications refused to print sex workers' ads, and without ads, many had trouble finding work.
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Making sex work even more dangerous —and thus making sex workers more vulnerable to exploitation — is not.
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Sex workers use the internet and particular websites to share information, rate clients and to check references.
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With these tools, clients can get "blacklisted" for being deemed harmful or risky to other sex workers.
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Tanit hopes that Pineapple Support can help bridge the gap between sex workers and mental health care.
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Because of the nature of their work, many sex workers rely on the internet to find community.
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Here, she answers everything you always wanted to know about sex workers (but were afraid to ask).
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Sex workers in other countries have also struggled with measures to stop the spread of the virus.
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Sex workers in other countries have also struggled with measures to stop the spread of the virus.
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It&aposs why Ward, and dozens of other sex workers, launched their nudes-for-donations campaigns there.
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In time, sex workers became madams; from Italy, they employed recruiters, transporters, and document forgers in Nigeria.
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In effect, FOSTA has harmed adult sex workers, while there is little evidence it has protected minors.
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It's a significant step to take, one that stands to protect other sex workers facing unequal treatment.
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They also followed One25, a charity that helps sex workers by bringing them food, advice and blankets.
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"Twitter can continue to fuck over sex workers even while they claim to support us," Rose said.
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Sex workers had been reaching out to Khanna since before the bill passed, warning about these dangers.
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Now sex workers and their allies are holding demonstrations across the country in hopes of fighting back.
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Sex workers rights are directly linked to women's rights, LGBTQ rights, workers rights and other vulnerable communities.
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VICE News goes to Kampala, Uganda to speak with sex workers who are struggling to find condoms.
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It operates on the novel idea that sex workers are people with their own personalities and complexities.
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Ultimately ["you sell your body"] is just a saying people use to attempt to shame sex workers.
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There are sex workers, there are people who work in offices who own businesses, there are doctors.
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The same can't be said of North America; the most up-to-date research suggests that numerous attempts to achieve trade union recognition for sex workers have largely failed, although vital NGOs like SWOP (Sex Workers' Outreach Project) continue to fight for justice and the wider safety of workers.
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In a blog post, feminist adult filmmaker, Erika Lust, wrote that her eponymous channel was removed after they uploaded their docuseries "In Conversation With Sex Workers," in which sex workers discuss their experiences, social stigmas, relationships with clients, law enforcement, and the relationship between sex work and feminism.
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But if we want to build a world where sex workers are getting support when they need it the most, we have to spend more time dismantling the stigmas associated with mental illness and sex work — and less time analyzing the grisly details of individual sex workers' deaths.
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"We have been exercising some strategic enforcement with a lower likelihood of arrest if sex workers stick to set rules, but there have been arrests and action taken against sex workers and their customers during the period the initiative has been running," said Tony Tierney of West Yorkshire Police.
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Most of Tijuana's sex workers grew up in Zona Norte or one of the city's other poor neighborhoods.
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Most Chinese sex workers choose the trade freely, says Ding Yu of Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou.
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Sex workers and their clients can be fined and locked up without trial for up to 15 days.
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But she's now focusing on new battles ahead to elevate the status of sex workers in French society.
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Social media platforms like Tumblr and Twitter targeted the accounts of sex workers who were advertising their services.
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This left sex workers suddenly cut off from online community resources such as lists of potentially dangerous clients.
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Dutch sex workers' union PROUD is currently organizing to protest a recent ban of Red Light District tours.
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And once sex workers don't have as many options, employers no longer have to treat them as well.
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He says it's police culture itself that repeatedly fails sex workers on even the most well-intentioned forces.
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"This is not about apprehending sex workers, this is about apprehending a very violent, predatory suspect," he said.
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Imagine the challenge for people trying to maintain two different identities, such as sex workers or undercover investigators.
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Roux said that she knows sex workers who have been kicked off of Facebook, Tinder, OkCupid, and Instagram.
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Despite concerns from anti-trafficking advocates like Mathieson, sex workers have been vocal in their support of decriminalization.
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A study of 2000 female Midwestern sex workers found that 103 percent had experienced harassment by the police.
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After firing on a Viet Cong village, US troops remove "joy girls," or sex workers, from the area.
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We could have told lawmakers that closing site where we screen will cause sex workers to be murdered.
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This has had the unintended (or, some believe, totally intended!) effect of making sex workers' jobs more dangerous.
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The county's four bordellos may shutter, leaving several hundred registered sex workers, bartenders and maintenance staff without work.
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Like sex education in public schools, clear and accurate information for sex workers is not always readily available.
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Cachay discovered that Brooks was cheating on her with sex workers and stealing money from her bank account.
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That changed in April, when Colombia's constitutional court ruled that Venezuelan sex workers are entitled to work visas.
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Sex workers at all levels are constantly up against scrutiny, bias, and violence from lawmakers and law enforcement.
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Because, no matter what, this is about asking about sex and about why are the [sex workers] involved?
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And our sex work policies — and the safety of sex workers — will continue to suffer as a result.
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Prostitution is tolerated with registered sex workers required to undergo regular health checks, according to a city official.
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Some of the other students include sex workers and drug addicts, who work better on a nightly schedule.
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Adult content is disappearing off Google Drive, and many sex workers say they're being forced off social media.
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Now, she and the four other sex workers I spoke with for this story all say they're afraid.
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It would also allow sex workers to apply for criminal records connected to sex work to be expunged.
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In 2013 the state's chief judge established a number of "diversion courts" to help sex workers avoid jail.
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If it comes down to Harris against Trump in 2020, some sex workers say the choice is difficult.
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A platform like SpankChain, if it ever comes to fruition, could put more money in sex workers' wallets.
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Studies show that criminalizing sex workers increases the likelihood they will experience physical or sexual violence by 300%.
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"Public health research shows that sex workers experience higher rates of occupational harassment, violence, and murder," Holloway wrote.
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According to Hydra, a sex worker advice group, there could be up to 8,000 sex workers in Berlin.
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The protest will call for an end to violence against trans people, migrants, and sex workers in France.
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And as a result, legislators indiscriminately crack down on sex workers by imposing their own values and judgments.
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At particular risk are those targeting more marginalized groups, such as teenage girls, sex workers and drug users.
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On July 4, YouTube banned an independent erotic film production company after it posted interviews with sex workers.
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"It's not just sex workers who are careful to shield their identities," she said to me via Skype.
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I had a fundraising party shortly after meeting [the producers], attended by sex workers and sex work advocates.
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Other groups vulnerable to HIV—trans people, sex workers, and black women from African communities—were barely considered.
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If some of those services are disappearing, having something like PrEP would be really beneficial for sex workers.
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Sex workers of all sorts were already banned from many apps, including payment processors like PayPal and Square.
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But the effects of SESTA/FOSTA are being felt most among sex workers in much less privileged positions.
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One study found that Craigslist alone reduced female homicide rates overall (not just sex workers) by 17 percent.
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Caty Simon is a writer and editor of Tits and Sass, a blog by and for sex workers.
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Players can't, as far as I can tell, sleep with sex workers, even when they offer their services.
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Clients sent requests directly to sex workers and the interface led to a significant number of canceled requests.
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Instagram, when reached for comment by VICE, did not specifically say how it deals with sex workers' accounts.
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Ultimately it's about listening to us, because people are talking about sex work without listening to sex workers.
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Sex workers face constant police harassment, risk losing custody of their children, and are murdered at alarming rates.
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"Sex workers of any and all genders are human beings, and they're entitled to consensual experiences," Levkoff said.
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Through storytelling and photography, the sex workers explored how they related to ideas around intimacy, performance, and pleasure.
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People in those situations generally don't call themselves "sex workers" or see themselves as part of a movement.
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