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Sex Workers Sue Canadian Government Over Disastrous, Wrong-Headed PCEPA

Cliff Hanger — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 21:17:02 +0000

Oppressive present-day laws in Canada make it impossible for sex workers to make a living without severe discrimination because of the criminalization of their clients. The current constitutional challenge against the Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act (PCEPA) differs from Canada’s Bedford case in a crucial ways. As reported in Chateline, Jane Li supported her family through […]

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The Nordic Model Makes No Sense

Sekhmet — Sun, 13 Jun 2021 01:48:38 +0000

If you follow Gustavo Turner (@gustavoturnerx) from XBIZ on Twitter you might have noticed an interesting tweet he made. If you haven’t seen it, I’ll share it with you here. Proponents of the “Nordic Model” say they want to help sex workers. Imagine if they did the same claiming to “help musicians” (a thread): – […]

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The Economist: Germany helps sex workers idled by COVID-19

Sam Langhorne — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 23:07:41 +0000

From The Economist: Few industries have been as pummelled by COVID-19 as sex work, which in Germany is legal and regulated. Like many workplaces, brothels had to close in March. Yet although massage parlours and nail salons have reopened, prostitutes have been left in limbo. Some, such as Undine de Rivière in Hamburg, are innovating […]

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Sex work advocates blast Queens, NY DA’s plan to prosecute buyers

Sam Langhorne — Fri, 22 May 2020 21:14:55 +0000

Less than a year after Democrat Melinda Katz told one LGBTQ political club that she backed the outright legalization of sex work and conveyed to another queer club that she would focus on prosecuting “human traffickers or those who force people into sex work,” the top prosecutor in Queens, NY is singing a different tune now […]

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With Election of Anti-Sex Work Democrat Melinda Katz as DA, Queens, NY Faces Nordic Model-Style Crackdown

Sam Langhorne — Thu, 21 May 2020 15:18:50 +0000

In 2019, the nation’s most diverse county narrowly missed a major opportunity to embrace sex work decriminalization. A little less than a year later, the implications of the loss are being revealed. In the 2019 Democratic primary for district attorney in New York City’s Queens County, Tiffany Cabán, a high-profile former defense attorney who ran […]

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Malta: ‘Decriminalization is the safest way for sex workers to work’

xxxReporter — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 16:28:08 +0000

Decriminalization is the safest way for sex workers to work, a sex worker and activist in the field, told the The Malta Independent. Speaking on condition of anonymity, she said that she has been working in the industry for well over a decade. “Decriminalization gives full service sex workers the freedom to screen and refuse […]

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Ontario Court judge rules parts of Canada’s prostitution laws are unconstitutional

Sam Langhorne — Fri, 21 Feb 2020 19:50:33 +0000

An Ontario Court judge ruled Friday that three parts of Canada’s prostitution laws violate the country's Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

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OpenDemcracy: The false feminism of criminalizing sex workers’ clients

Sam Langhorne — Wed, 22 Jan 2020 17:35:27 +0000

Feminist arguments against sex work are as influential as they are dangerous. Sex workers fight daily battles to defend our rights. The illegality of sex work isn’t a hypothetical ‘debate’ for us. It is our reality. Hundreds of women are criminalized each year under the United Kingdom’s draconian prostitution laws while rape and other violence […]

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Untenable: Canada’s prostitution law is the worst of all worlds

Sam Langhorne — Wed, 04 Dec 2019 16:28:55 +0000

In the Chronicle Herald, Stuart Chambers, Ph.D. writes "Canada’s prostitution law is untenable. Here are five reasons why it must be jettisoned."

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The Economic Case for Decriminalizing Sex Work

Sam Langhorne — Tue, 03 Dec 2019 20:29:06 +0000

Both criminal data and economic research demonstrate that decriminalization of sex work brings about a decline in violence against women

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