decriminalization Archives - Mike South The institute for the advance study of insensitivity and pornography Fri, 16 Aug 2024 16:35:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://i0.wp.com/mikesouth.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/favicon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 decriminalization Archives - Mike South 32 32 1788040 The New Humanitarian examines the aid system’s ‘double standards’ on sex workers https://mikesouth.com/prostitution/the-new-humanitarian-examines-the-aid-systems-double-standards-on-sex-workers-79213/ https://mikesouth.com/prostitution/the-new-humanitarian-examines-the-aid-systems-double-standards-on-sex-workers-79213/#respond Fri, 16 Aug 2024 16:35:08 +0000 https://mikesouth.com/?p=79213 From the estimable Paula Dupraz-Dobias  for The New Humanitarian: In their policies, many aid groups recognize the agency of sex workers while in practice framing them as victims, says Anna Shapiro, policy lead at Global Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP), an organization advocating for sex workers’ health and human rights. “They’re supposed to provide humanitarian assistance […]

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]]> https://mikesouth.com/prostitution/the-new-humanitarian-examines-the-aid-systems-double-standards-on-sex-workers-79213/feed/ 0 79213 ACLU: Sex Work is Real Work, and It’s Time to Treat it That Way https://mikesouth.com/prostitution/aclu-sex-work-is-real-work-and-its-time-to-treat-it-that-way-57771/ https://mikesouth.com/prostitution/aclu-sex-work-is-real-work-and-its-time-to-treat-it-that-way-57771/#respond Thu, 11 Jun 2020 16:32:31 +0000 https://mikesouth.com/?p=57771 Long overdue and quite welcome from the ACLU: Sex workers aren’t always a part of the conversation about police brutality, but they should be. Police regularly target, harass, and assault sex workers or people they think are sex workers. The police usually get away with the abuse because sex workers fear being arrested if they […]

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]]> https://mikesouth.com/prostitution/aclu-sex-work-is-real-work-and-its-time-to-treat-it-that-way-57771/feed/ 0 57771 Kaytlin Bailey: Protect and empower New Hampshire’s sex workers https://mikesouth.com/prostitution/kaytlin-bailey-protect-empower-new-hampshire-sex-workers-57414/ https://mikesouth.com/prostitution/kaytlin-bailey-protect-empower-new-hampshire-sex-workers-57414/#respond Sun, 24 May 2020 18:24:09 +0000 https://mikesouth.com/?p=57414 A terrific Op/Ed by Kaytlin Bailey, director of communication for Decriminalize Sex Work On May 18, the New Hampshire Union Leader published an op/ed “Sex work is not work” by Jasmine Grace, founder of Jasmine Grace Outreach, one of many organizations raising awareness about human trafficking by conflating it with adult consensual prostitution. Among many […]

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]]> https://mikesouth.com/prostitution/kaytlin-bailey-protect-empower-new-hampshire-sex-workers-57414/feed/ 0 57414 With Election of Anti-Sex Work Democrat Melinda Katz as DA, Queens, NY Faces Nordic Model-Style Crackdown https://mikesouth.com/prostitution/with-election-of-anti-sex-work-democrat-melinda-katz-as-da-queens-ny-faces-nordic-model-style-crackdown-57383/ https://mikesouth.com/prostitution/with-election-of-anti-sex-work-democrat-melinda-katz-as-da-queens-ny-faces-nordic-model-style-crackdown-57383/#comments Thu, 21 May 2020 15:18:50 +0000 https://mikesouth.com/?p=57383 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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]]> https://mikesouth.com/prostitution/with-election-of-anti-sex-work-democrat-melinda-katz-as-da-queens-ny-faces-nordic-model-style-crackdown-57383/feed/ 1 57383 London tube filled with adverts promoting sex work decriminalization https://mikesouth.com/prostitution/london-tube-filled-with-adverts-promoting-sex-work-decriminalization-55908/ https://mikesouth.com/prostitution/london-tube-filled-with-adverts-promoting-sex-work-decriminalization-55908/#respond Mon, 09 Mar 2020 19:35:11 +0000 https://mikesouth.com/?p=55908 Posters advertising the movement for the decriminalization of sex work have appeared across the London tube in a bold adhacking campaign.

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]]> https://mikesouth.com/prostitution/london-tube-filled-with-adverts-promoting-sex-work-decriminalization-55908/feed/ 0 55908 Malta: ‘Decriminalization is the safest way for sex workers to work’ https://mikesouth.com/prostitution/malta-decriminalization-is-the-safest-way-for-sex-workers-to-work-55748/ https://mikesouth.com/prostitution/malta-decriminalization-is-the-safest-way-for-sex-workers-to-work-55748/#respond Tue, 03 Mar 2020 16:28:08 +0000 https://mikesouth.com/?p=55748 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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]]> https://mikesouth.com/prostitution/malta-decriminalization-is-the-safest-way-for-sex-workers-to-work-55748/feed/ 0 55748 Op/Ed: It’s time to decriminalize sex work and focus on actual crimes https://mikesouth.com/prostitution/kaytlin-bailey-op-ed-time-to-decriminalize-sex-work-focus-on-actual-crimes-54328/ https://mikesouth.com/prostitution/kaytlin-bailey-op-ed-time-to-decriminalize-sex-work-focus-on-actual-crimes-54328/#comments Sat, 11 Jan 2020 16:43:09 +0000 https://mikesouth.com/?p=54328 An Op/Ed by Kaytlin Bailey, director of communications for Decriminalize Sex Work, published Jan. 10 in the Orange County Register of all places — Politicians across the country have declared a war on human trafficking, but the tactics police departments are deploying aren’t catching the real criminals. Instead, they’re tearing apart families, terrorizing communities and ruining […]

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]]> https://mikesouth.com/prostitution/kaytlin-bailey-op-ed-time-to-decriminalize-sex-work-focus-on-actual-crimes-54328/feed/ 1 54328 The Economic Case for Decriminalizing Sex Work https://mikesouth.com/prostitution/the-economic-case-for-decriminalizing-sex-work-53391/ https://mikesouth.com/prostitution/the-economic-case-for-decriminalizing-sex-work-53391/#respond Tue, 03 Dec 2019 20:29:06 +0000 https://mikesouth.com/?p=53391 Both criminal data and economic research demonstrate that decriminalization of sex work brings about a decline in violence against women

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]]> https://mikesouth.com/prostitution/the-economic-case-for-decriminalizing-sex-work-53391/feed/ 0 53391 Australia’s Northern Territory decriminalizes sex work! https://mikesouth.com/prostitution/australias-northern-territory-decriminalizes-sex-work-52744/ https://mikesouth.com/prostitution/australias-northern-territory-decriminalizes-sex-work-52744/#respond Wed, 27 Nov 2019 18:18:19 +0000 https://mikesouth.com/?p=52744 The Sex Industry Bill 2019 was adopted in the Northern Territory Parliament on Tuesday, as Attorney-General Natasha Fyles pushes through change Sex work has now been decriminalized in Australia‘s Northern Territory — with the Territory Parliament voting 16-5 to repeal the NT’s old sex work laws and pass a new act. Territory politicians voted to adopt […]

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]]> https://mikesouth.com/prostitution/australias-northern-territory-decriminalizes-sex-work-52744/feed/ 0 52744 New figures show absence of sex trafficking cases in South Australia ahead of vote on decriminalization https://mikesouth.com/prostitution/new-figures-show-absence-of-sex-trafficking-cases-in-south-australia-ahead-of-vote-on-decriminalization-52388/ https://mikesouth.com/prostitution/new-figures-show-absence-of-sex-trafficking-cases-in-south-australia-ahead-of-vote-on-decriminalization-52388/#comments Tue, 12 Nov 2019 20:24:56 +0000 https://mikesouth.com/?p=52388 Today’s vote on sex work decriminalization is expected to be close New figures show just four people in South Australia have been fined for offering prostitution services.  ahead of a crucial vote for campaigners seeking to decriminalize sex work today. Data from the courts obtained by the ABC shows that only 57 fines were issued […]

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