Enforcing Northern Ireland’s New Swedish-Style Sex Purchase Law – A Sex Worker’s Story
Harm Reduction
Sex Workers Oppose Northern Ireland Bill and End Demand Campaign to Criminalise Clients
In the Booth with Ruth – Tara Burns, Survivor of Labor Trafficking in the Sex Industry, Sex Worker and Sex Workers’ Rights Activist
We need anti-discrimination laws (as recommended by the Obama administration in 2010) to protect us from discrimination in accessing housing, employment, child custody, public services, financial instruments, health care, and education. This is not an abstract concept. If you don’t want people to be prostitutes, or even if you just want people to be able to leave the sex industry, making it impossible for sex workers and sex trafficking victims to get other jobs or rent a home is the opposite of effective...
Northern Ireland’s Criminalisation of Buying Sex Puts Sex Workers at Risk
Sex trafficking has been used as a in a moral crusade to end prostitution. Justice Minister David Ford does not believe criminalising the purchase of sex will reduce trafficking. He believes criminalising the purchase of sex will endanger sex workers. Research conducted by Queen’s University found 61% of the sex workers they surveyed in Northern Ireland believed criminalising clients would make sex workers less safe, and 85% did not believe that it would reduce trafficking. Indeed, UNAIDS has found that criminal laws related to sex work increase danger for sex workers.
#NoClause6 | Sex workers protest in Northern Ireland
The Policing of Sex Work in West Yorkshire: An Interview With Rosie Campbell OBE
Originally posted on What Can I Do
22 Sept Canadian Sex Workers & Sex Worker Activists in London
‘No Human Involved’: Filmmaker PJ Starr Discusses Her Documentary Telling Marcia Powell’s Story
‘Criminalising the Purchase of Sex: Lessons from Sweden’ – Dr Jay Levy Discusses His New Book
In terms of the focus on Sweden’s sex purchase law, I was particularly struck by the extent to which the law is internationally influential, but in a context where the law hadn’t been involvedly evaluated by the Swedish government and where much work produced on the topic seemed hugely biased, and...
In the Booth with Ruth – Jemima, Sex Worker, Writer and Student
I was a sex worker, but like most isolated by the nature of the work. Whilst I knew the law as it applied to me I was unaware there were people campaigning to change the laws, or that other countries has different systems, many of which were a lot worse than the UK. I started talking to and reading other sex workers writings, and attended a few events. Realising that I was not alone was such a huge moment for me.
Collateral Damage: Sex Workers and the Anti-Trafficking Campaigns at Kampnagel, Hamburg
The Sex Trade: Lies, the ‘Voice of the Voiceless’ and Other Silencing Tactics
Most people are voiceless because no one is letting them talk or listening to them when they do. There is a lot to be said for quitting being the voice of the voiceless and letting people speak for themselves. But not by those seeking to abolish the sex trade. Words are put into people's mouths when they can be, and when they can't, those people are silenced and dismissed.
The Enemy of my Enemy… Why I Want to Talk with Abolitionists about the Cons’ New Prostitution Bill
Originally posted on autocannibal:
This is Not Feminist Legislation, and it’s Not Supply-Side Decriminalization For those of us who would like to see sex workers totally decriminalized within our lifetimes, the Conservative government’s Bill C36 – a replacement for the anti-prostitution laws struck down by the Supreme Court in R v. Bedford – was worse…
This is Not Feminist Legislation, and it’s Not Supply-Side Decriminalization For those of us who would like to see sex workers totally decriminalized within our lifetimes, the Conservative government’s Bill C36 – a replacement for the anti-prostitution laws struck down by the Supreme Court in R v. Bedford – was worse…
APPG on Prostitution and the Global Sex Trade Report “Shifting the Burden” Increases Violence Against Women
With politicians' infamy for 'shifting the burden', this was not the best title for an All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) report. Chosen to reflect their recommendation of shifting the burden of criminalisation from the seller of sex to the buyer, in practice this fails as badly as when politicians endeavour a cover up - like why was this group funded by a religious anti-gay charity!?
Ruth Jacobs 