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A sex worker is anyone who earns money by providing sexual services. Some use this term to mean only prostitution, although the term is more commonly used to refer to a wide variety of sex industry workers (e.g. adult film actors, nude models, exotic dancers, peep show performers, masseuses in parlours, phone sex workers, and hostesses in clip joints).
Recently, there have been several efforts to gain legal recognition for sex workers. In the Netherlands, Germany, New Zealand and some Australian States, sex workers already enjoy recognition by their government. The term "sex worker" is primarily used among professionals who support formal organizations in an otherwise left-alone industry. Their proponents claim that formal organizations are going to help lower the victimization rate of the workers also reducing and preventing the transmission of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) among these workers and their clients.
In practice the growth in sex tourism has led to a corresponding growth in the sex industry. Illegal sex tourism with under-age boys and girls has become a notorious problem in Costa Rica and Thailand, for example. Meanwhile a legal and consensual sex industry often makes a significant contribution to local economies. The Hamburg Reeperbahn is a licensed and taxed prostitution zone serving tourists from all over the world, whilst the sex industry has also tended to thrive around military bases. The British naval port of Portsmouth had a flourishing local sex industry in the nineteenth century for example, whilst until the early 1990s there were large red light districts near American military bases in the Philippines. The notorious Patpong entertainment district in Bangkok, Thailand, started as a R&R (Rest and Recuperation) location for US troops involved in the Vietnam War in the early 1970s.
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Prostitutes' Education Network - Information about prostitutes' rights, working conditions, history, book reviews, geared for students and activists.
Meta Description: [ Prostitution, trafficking and other sex work issues from a prostitutes rights perspective including trafficking, police abuse, decriminalization of prostitution. ]
Tracy Quan's Homepage - Over the past ten years Tracy Quan has spoken at universities and in other forums, about issues that affect the sex industry. Frequently described as a post-feminist, she is a member of the International Network of Sex Work Projects.
Support Center - Information and support for workers and customers. Includes articles on subjects such as the law and which countries have legal prostitution.
Meta Description: [ Sex Work as a legitimate, moral, healthy profession that should be legalized and help promote intimacy and sexual education as well as the right of all to sexual pleasure whether in a relationship or not. ]
- Coalition for the Rights of Sex Workers - The Coalition for the Rights of Sex Workers was founded in 1996 by sex workers, former sex workers and our allies. We are part of the international struggle for the rights of people in the sex trade and for the decriminalization of our lives and our work. Both English and French translations available on this website.
BAYSWAN - The Bay Area Sex Worker Advocacy Network, an organization providing information about sex workers' rights and issues.
Meta Description: [ Sex work issues from a rights perspective including discussions abouttrafficking and prostitution, police abuse and prostitution,pornography, exotic dancers, strippers, legalization of prostitution,decrminalization of prostitution, pornography and more. ]
beau du jour - Diary of a new rent boy. Daily observations and experiences of a lad who sells sex.
Casualties of the Sexual Revolution - An article about how women who leave the sex industry are still treated as pariahs.
Meta Description: [ Our society may have evolved since the days of the public stocks and scarlet letters, but the fate of women who chose to openly enjoy sex and--God forbid ... profit from their libidos is still much the same. ]
Cause Awareness - Website is a survivor/feminist look at prostitution from the eyes of a former runaway teen with a focus on the psychological issues related to violence, sexual exploitation and recovery including best practices to end violence, stigmatization and exploitation of individuals with current or past involvement in the sex industry. Includes daily news and headlines and online learning center
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Feminist Issues in Prostitution - An analysis of liberal, radical, and marxist feminism as it relates to prostitution. Paper presented to the 1997 International Conference on Prostitution, Cal State Northridge.
Freedom USA index page - Providing information that we hope will help restore the freedom that we have lost. Reduce control by government over the non-coercive, consensual activities of all adult Americans.
Helping Individual Prostitutes Survive - Washington DC organization designed to help street prostitutes through outreach, AIDS education,and legal assistance.
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HOOK Online - HOOK is a non-profit project by, for and about men working in the sex industry. Including interviews, support and discussions.
IUSW - welcome - The International Union of Sex Workers, Sex Workers Unionization organization. Sex worker rights initiatives include: Decriminalisation of all aspects of sex work involving consenting adults and An end to social attitudes which stigmatise those who are or have been sex workers
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Meretrix Online - Magdalene Meretrix: Legal Prostitute - Sex work activism and erotic writing for discerning adults.
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Network of Sex Work Projects - The NSWP was founded in 1991 as an informal alliance which participates in independently financed projects in partnership with member organizations and technical support agencies.
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Prostitution, Feminism and Critical Praxis: Profession Prostitute? - An academic paper by Dr. Maggie O'Neill, Austrian Journal of Sociology, 1996. Explores the fact that prostitution is experienced and articulated as sex work for some women in contemporary society.
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SALLI - United Sex Professionals of Finland - Finnish organisation for those who work in erotic labour: sex workers, private escorts, erotic performers, strippers, pro doms, and porn models.
Sex Industry Network South Australia - The South Australian Sex Industry Network (SIN) is a program area of the AIDS Council of South Australia and is funded as a health promotion project that aims to support the current high standards of sexual health among South Australian sex workers.
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STAR - Sex Trade Advocacy and Research -- Canadian web site describing this organisations work. Includes reports and press releases.
STORM - Sex Trade Opportunities for Risk Minimization - A unit of Project PROSPER, which is a U.S. national organization providing training, education, consultation, and direct services using a harm reduction model.
The Canadian Guild for Erotic Labour - Who we are We are a national organization of workers and allies who have come together to support and promote labour rights and labour organizing for women, men and transsexual/transgendered workers engaged in erotic labour in Canada. We define erotic labour as the commercial provision of erotic or sexual relaxation, entertainment or companionship services. This includes escorting, erotic massage, body rub, street work, erotic dancing, professional bdsm, porn performance/modelling and various other forms of sex work.
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