There is no lack of diversity within the sex industry.
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The affair between the sex industry and cryptocurrency isn't new.
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In Kutupalong, the biggest camp, the sex industry is thriving.
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The commercial sex industry survives only because of consumer demand.
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The sex industry, however, does not need government approval to thrive.
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State politics and state legislatures move slower than the sex industry.
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She has been researching the sex industry for nearly a decade.
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But the peril is higher for those in the sex industry.
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My experience [as a mother] has not been one of raising kids in the sex industry because the two worlds are separate; I work in the sex industry and I raise my daughter outside of that.
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Or does Valentine's have no bearing on the sex industry at all?
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For me, entering into the sex industry was a highly personal decision.
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Instead she was set up to be trafficked into the sex industry.
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Many came as students, then overstayed to work in the sex industry.
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The sex industry in Tijuana is a multimillion-dollar enterprise that employs thousands.
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None of this is to deny that coercion exists in the sex industry.
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When the war ended, vacationing soldiers disappeared, but the sex industry did not.
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By the late 33s, the sex industry in Thailand was again shifting dramatically.
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From sausage sandwiches to the sex industry, here's a roundup of his answers.
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Fortunately, in the sex industry, there is a lid for every misshapen pot.
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They were both working the stroll, working the sex industry on 42nd street.
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As a result, mothers working within the sex industry are often heavily stigmatized.
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He'd done it: he'd swapped the world of bars for the sex industry.
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Vietnam's sex industry, centered largely on American bars, thrived during the Vietnam War.
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Miyazaki did once say that Japanese society has become like the sex industry.
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She's made her living in the sex industry, and she owns that fact.
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Brothels are the only safe and sane way to work in the sex industry.
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The plans have alarmed those within the sex industry and civil liberties campaigners alike.
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While it didn't include nudity or technical sex, it was a sex-industry job.
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I was very judgmental of people in the sex industry and didn't understand it.
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Sex industry activist Kate McGrew alerted the Twitter masses to the March's retraction earlier today.
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Do you have any advice for somebody who wants to get into the sex industry?
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Telephones and the genesis of the phone sex industry is a good example of this.
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However, it is highly unlikely that actors in the commercial sex industry will be deterred.
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It's actually quite nuanced and reflective on the different facets out of the sex industry.
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I also produce media that portrays Asian Americans in different fields of the sex industry.
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Women in the sex industry are constantly dehumanized by society's irrational and sex-negative standards.
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These would be good practices for people who are not in the sex industry, too.
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All this because I admitted that I&aposd worked in the sex industry before teaching.
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Overall, by excluding the sex industry, CES organizers failed to understand a major industry shift.
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Working in the sex industry does not magically make women more capable of defusing violence.
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"Pulling people out of the sex industry without their consent and penalizing those who do not agree to exit the sex industry does not 'save' or 'rescue' them," reads the open letter, calling for the end of British Columbia Police involvement in the operation.
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Despite its taboo, there aren't many issues or industries that are untouched by the sex industry.
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But when I actually started working in the sex industry, it wasn't like that at all.
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"My five years in the sex industry were really a positive time for me," Billuni says.
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Desperately in need of resources, yes, but widely representative of the entire sex industry, absolutely not.
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Don't get me wrong: this isn't a condemnation of people who work in the sex industry.
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The sex industry has grown as the city has gentrified, according to prostitutes and the police.
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If you're speaking about the sex industry, the manner in which he runs it is cleaner.
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It also provides emergency housing, transportation and scholarships for women seeking to leave the sex industry.
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There's no reason to think that the sex industry will prove the exception to the rule.
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It turns out that the sex industry in Amsterdam can be equally as divisive for its workers.
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In addition, girls often end up graduating from the JK business into the more overt sex industry.
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While we are part of the sex industry, there still has to be some rules and regulations.
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Instead, they often find themselves sold as domestic labor or forced to work in the sex industry.
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Sure, working in the sex industry is exploitative and precarious, but so is work in other industries.
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The Deuce's penultimate episode is all about reclaiming power, even in the narrow corridors of the sex industry.
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I joined the sex industry to pay off my student loans, not take regularly scheduled trips to Saks.
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With our sugar baby interviews, we've chatted with women (and men) on the periphery of the sex industry.
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Society at large seems to think that people get into the sex industry for fast and easy cash.
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"I built my whole writing and teaching approach around what I learned from the sex industry," Billuni says.
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Taking choice and autonomy away from those in the sex industry is not going to help trafficking victims.
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And as a survivor, I know that attempting to abolish the sex industry will not stop sex trafficking.
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An outsider looking at the sex industry might assume that a blowjob would curry favor among the judges.
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As the porn industry grows, the sex industry suffers, at least between 40th and 48th street in midtown Manhattan.
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Since then, the sex industry has become the fastest growing industry in China, staffed by some ten million girls.
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While this radical move to limit online speech targets the sex industry for now, it's unlikely to end there.
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I was worried about people judging me the way I once stereotyped anyone who worked in the sex industry.
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Creamer has been impressed with how accepting the real porn stars and sex industry workers have been toward him.
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It isn't the first time a website that hosted sex-industry ads has been seized by law enforcement. MyRedBook.
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Neon's overt sexualization—and inherent ties with the sex industry—makes the sterilization of the female form particularly intriguing.
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For the majority of trans women in Colombia, there is no option but to work in the sex industry.
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It appears that there has been a line drawn in the sand between the "mainstream" and the sex industry.
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Camming has become a huge part of the sex industry over the past decade, and it's continuing to grow.
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The shuttering of Craigslist Casual Encounters didn't end the sex industry, and neither will the end of Backpage Adult.
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"It would be great if clients of the sex industry would really realize their stake in it," she said.
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At the same conference, Mr. Giuliani said she was not credible because of her career in the sex industry.
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Whatever your opinion of the sex industry, Vera wants her project to illustrate the normal nature of sex workers' lives.
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Yet the decline in the conventional sex industry does not mean a decline in the overall business of adult entertainment.
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Coincidentally, Cruz has spent part of his political career fighting against the sex industry — which many on Twitter pointed out.
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Saggers said this was funding the exploitation of women in the sex industry, as well as slavery and gun violence.
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By the 20th century, an influx of Western soldiers meant that the sex industry was catering to a new clientele.
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As with many former sex workers, Billuni continues to be frustrated by how society tends to view the sex industry.
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All women engaged in the commercial sex industry should feel empowered to come forward for help, without fear of criminalization.
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Among those targeted were victims of domestic abuse, drug and alcohol addicts and people who work in the sex industry.
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The mission of My Life My Choice is to support young survivors of sexual exploitation and the commercial sex industry.
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There are women who have gone into the sex industry, they're just like, ''I'm going to make my own stuff.
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The fear, distrust, and isolation I had already begun to experience as an individual working in the sex industry was compounded.
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Instead, they too often find themselves sold as domestic labor and denied wages, or forced to work in the sex industry.
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Sociologists reckon the lack of confidence may also account for another trend in the sex industry: the fetishism of young girls.
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The rise of human-like robots is coming, he says, and bringing them into the sex industry will be particularly problematic.
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However, social bias continues and they are denied education and jobs, forcing many of them into the sex industry, campaigners say.
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Later, at 17, I decided to go to Bogotá, where I got into the sex industry and befriended another trans woman.
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Consider what happened to a girl I'll call Natalie, who was trafficked into the sex industry in Seattle at age 15.
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I showed Alia Janine, a retired porn performer who was in the sex industry for 15 years, the video of Gadot.
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Women in the sex industry are always assumed to be guilty, even though we are society's guilty pleasure behind closed doors.
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The dark side of the sex industry will create some really nasty, nasty stuff, and I think, 'Is it worth it?
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In recordings, women talk about drunk customers, violence, and why they find it difficult to leave the sex industry, Pandey said.
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Compounding that, experience in the commercial sex industry leaves some victims with alcohol and drug addictions and some with criminal records.
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As I walked off the gig mid-shift, it really hit home how my initial reservations about the sex industry were unfair.
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"Every person who works in the porn and sex industry has been kind to me, which is really, really cool," he said.
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If the Digital Economy Bill is passed, she and many of her sex industry peers will find themselves out of a job.
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At the same time, the sex industry is adjusting to cater to young Japanese who are also less interested in carnal pleasures.
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After surveying the frontier of sex industry-focused blockchain startups, I have one, nagging question: Who's buying coins like TIT and why?
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The dark side of the sex industry will create some really fuckin' nasty, nasty stuff, and I think, 'Is it worth it?
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"From its inception, anti-trafficking laws in the United States have also been about trying to eliminate the sex industry," Lutnick argues.
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So I have an inkling of what Brett has faced, trying to maintain her credibility while working in the legal sex industry.
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In this new piece, directed by Carolyn Cantor for Manhattan Theater Club, she draws on research on women in the sex industry.
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In my life I've known a handful of people who have been involved in the sex industry in one way or another.
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A man I chat to tells me that nudism is about inclusivity and openness, and that the sex industry is about voyeurism.
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Some officials may recognise that the sex industry is nothing like the social evil that the party has traditionally held it to be.
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Luckily, just as it was with DVDs and the internet, the sex industry is at the forefront of the evolution of gadget technology.
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Harrison pointed out that it's even difficult for companies in the sex industry to get the business name on checks from a bank.
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When we talk about people who are vulnerable in the sex industry, we're talking about people who don't have any resources or opportunities.
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For Hald, it was a mission to portray the whole story of making a living in the sex industry, and not just part.
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The study, published in late 2017, was based on interviews with 300 transgender women working in the sex industry in major Indian cities.
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Young women who, according to the president's current lawyer Rudy Giuliani, have no credibility because they are involved in the commercial sex industry.
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I'm mostly retired from pro-domming, porn, and the many parts of the sex industry in which I worked for the past decade.
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When the artifice of sex industry branding is taken at face value, sex work advocates are broadly dismissed as vapid, frivolous rich girls.
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"We will have many experts from the sex industry speaking, but no pornographers—they are all in hiding," explained Rydkina, shrugging her shoulders.
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Women who work in the sex industry deserve to be seen simply as women, and treated as living, breathing, humans with equal rights.
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Those are things that workers in all facets of the sex industry have to worry about, whether you're a stripper or an escort.
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The brothel says ... because the sex industry is regulated in Nevada, human trafficking isn't an issue with the working girls -- unlike in Florida.
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The 18th-century orchestra that powered Vivaldi's groundbreaking use of virtuoso soloists was composed largely of the orphaned daughters of Venice's sex industry.
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As we sipped soft drinks and tea, Choi and Sun recounted the recent history of the town and the sex industry it sustained.
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Nonetheless, there's been major outcry over the mere prospect of sex doll brothels, particularly in the legal sex industry in the United States.
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Watch: Meet the Real People Behind Your Virtual Boyfriend Of course, reading about the sex industry is very different to actually experiencing it.
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It's become such a major driver of the city's economy that in 2015, city officials considered basing an advertising campaign around the sex industry.
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Some, like Kader, turned to the sex industry because no one would hire them and they had no other way to make a living.
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"Nobody wants a safer sex industry more than sex workers themselves," says Fleur (not her real name), of the Prostitution Information Centre in Amsterdam.
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I hate that view, and although there's a lot that's wrong with the sex industry, there are problems with most industries—that's just capitalism.
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The pimps, brothel owners and traffickers who buy and sell other people's bodies are the force trying to decriminalize the entire global sex industry.
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Prostitution has been legal in Germany since 2002, and the sex industry is a noticeable aspect of people's lives, whether it's business or not.
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According to Hella and Yvette, two sex workers and activists in the Amsterdam sex industry, it can be an empowering and frustrating line of work.
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It's the only place in the sex industry where I've seen outward pride in this kind of diversity, rather than a hustle to hide it.
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In the podcast, Ronson interviews Fabian Thylmann, PornHub's millionaire founder, along with a spectrum of sex industry performers and creators struggling to make ends meet.
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In protest, she crafted a series of papier-mâché dolls named kumjing; each doll symbolizes a real girl who is working in Thailand's sex industry.
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But, it is an incredible blow to the commercial sex industry, - an industry that not even sex worker rights advocates can claim is fundamentally safe.
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The Oregonian reports that McCall also organized two fundraisers this month at the vegan strip club Casa Diablo, with help from other sex-industry workers.
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Sex workers share common traits: poverty, abusive family members and lack of funds make them vulnerable enough to be trafficked into the camp's sex industry.
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They asked me about whether I'd ever been in the sex industry before, whether I did full service sex work, and when I could start.
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"If we can can have a conversation about adult sex work, and how to reduce trafficking in the sex industry, that would be incredible," she added.
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It's one of a bundle of sex industry-oriented digital coins, like SpankChain, that envisions an opportunity to capitalise on people's pleasure in a new way.
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What do you think it says about what needs to be done about the sex industry in relation to how it was in that previous era?
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Considering the men and women who work in the sex industry offer up their bodies, it's only fair that you try and be polite and considerate.
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Selling sex is illegal in Thailand, but authorities generally turn a blind eye to the country's thriving sex industry, with occasional crackdowns such as Tuesday's raid.
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I was voted in as a South Gloucestershire councillor for the Liberal Democrats after openly admitting my temporary career in the sex industry to the party.
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My boss uses a Bitcoin brokerage firm in Brooklyn—he's wealthy enough to do that, but for many people in the sex industry, that isn't possible.
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The South Korean government has never formally recognized its own role in the militarized sex industry or the state's impingement on the rights of Korean women.
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There are at least 10,000 ladyboys working in Bangkok's sex industry, said Celeste McGee, founder of Dton Naam, a charity that focuses on boys and transgender women.
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The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in New York, does not accuse Weinstein of labor trafficking or other exploitations commonly associated with the commercial sex industry.
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For me, I was doing it anyway, but I just wasn't involved in the sex industry culture yet to realize how big of an industry it was.
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" According to Donna Rice Hughes of the EIE, "There's a tremendous amount of incestuous crossover in the sex industry whether it's trafficking, child pornography, or child predation.
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They will also be played during training sessions with police to "shatter myths and misconceptions" about women who have been trafficked into the sex industry said Pandey.
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Gunther, Green, and Patton also had worked in the sex industry, police told the Orlando Sentinel, possibly indicating a pattern in how Hayes found his alleged victims.
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Mr. Kraft has also donated heavily to My Life, My Choice, a nonprofit organization in Boston that supports girls who were exploited by the commercial sex industry.
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Amsterdam's sex industry can be divisive; for tourists, the flagrancy with which the city's brothels line the streets give the place a sense of either allure or seediness.
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The stigma speaks to the inherent contradiction of the American dream within the context of the sex industry: Achievement is equated with cash flow, but promiscuity is shunned.
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They needed a scientific judgement to decide that it was okay... You've worked in the sex industry—do you think there's much overlap with the world of dating?
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Hundreds of thousands of victims are estimated to be working in the sex industry, or in the hospitality, beauty, or agricultural industries where such conditions could be occurring.
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"The entire modus operandi of the commercial sex industry is changing," said Shailja Mehta at Dasra, a non-profit in Mumbai that has examined sex trafficking in India.
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Sarah Jones, the shape-shifting writer-performer of "Bridge & Tunnel," explores the commercial sex industry in her new piece, "Sell / Buy / Date" (City Center Stage II, Sept. 27).
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Whatever you think about the morality of the sex industry, it sets up a situation in which the exploitation of one party by another is a likely outcome.
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Recently, adult-film actress Kitty Stryker shared her experience of how the revelation that she was working in the sex industry actually brought her and her mother closer together.
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Violence and abuse are common, as is substance abuse and sexually-transmitted infections including HIV and AIDS, according to a 2013 study on boys in Chiang Mai's sex industry.
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About 1.4 million South Koreans visited the Philippines in the first 10 months of 2016 - a quarter of all tourists arrivals - lured by beaches, golf and the sex industry.
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About 1.4 million South Koreans visited the Philippines in the first 10 months of 2016 - a quarter of all tourists arrivals - lured by beaches, golf and the sex industry.
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So if online payment platforms make it near impossible for members of the sex industry to accept payments online, how, exactly, does anyone working in sex ever get paid?
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My network in the sex industry gives me infinite resources to help my future child develop healthy bodily autonomy and sexuality when the ball is out of my court.
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Oh Joy Sex Toy, by Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan, covers a variety of sex-related issues, such as sexual orientation, the sex industry, toys, workshops, and birth control.
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And the greatest lesson I took away was that the taboo around the sex industry has to end if we want to push it towards a healthier, better place.
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They are trafficked into the sex industry, kept in servitude as domestic workers in private homes, forced to work in exploitative conditions in factories and bonded into agricultural labor.
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I'd worked as a burlesque dancer in Amsterdam before, so I wasn't a stranger to the sex industry and had always been attracted to the world that surrounds it.
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"Why does this not shock and enrage people as much as it does when it's girls?" said Russell, whose drop-in center is for boys in Chiang Mai's sex industry.
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That said, to believe the sex industry doesn't have an effect on the private lives and identities of its workers—as some pro-industry advocates argue anecdotally—is equally obtuse.
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Panels addressing human trafficking and diversity in the sex industry are planned for the day—one of the guest speakers is Gizelle Marie, lead organizer of the NYC Stripper Strike.
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Sidibe also adds that having worked in the sex industry provided her with extra insight on what it's like to have an unwelcome stigma attached to her name in Hollywood.
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Now I routinely make myself available to other folks in the sex industry; those who are struggling to disentangle themselves from similarly unsupportive familial relationships that just aren't serving them.
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Three Australians and a Canadian were arrested on Wednesday in Pattaya, a major tourist resort with a reputation as a hub for foreign gangs, drug dealing and the sex industry.
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In her latest, "Sell/Buy/Date," which begins performances in September and is presented by the Manhattan Theater Club, Ms. Jones explores the lives of workers in the sex industry.
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Modern-day slavery Hale brought up his 10-year-old daughter in explaining his engagement in fighting human trafficking, noting how young children become trapped in the commercial sex industry.
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When I think about the sex industry—what's being sold, and how, and how personally—I want all the parts of sex that are inclusive, well-considered, educated, and educational.
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So, to find out what a world would look like without prostitution, or what striking could do to create a drastically changed sex industry, we'd have to decriminalize it first.
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I was 22, I'd just graduated film school, and I was keen to see how the sex industry worked—I wanted to form my own opinions on the infamous business.
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They are all part of an acid flashback to the early 1970s, courtesy of "The Deuce," an HBO series about the New York sex industry that once defined 42nd Street.
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But away from policy making and politics—and regardless of which model they believe works best—women in the sex industry all face the same stigma when it comes to healthcare.
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"There is this false idea that the only way to reach people who are exploited in the sex industry is to arrest them," sex worker rights advocate Kate D'Adamo told me.
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Earlier this month, border authorities said up to 100 people suspected of being trafficked into Britain to work mainly in the sex industry had been refused entry at a Scottish airport.
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As long as you're careful, no matter what your role is in the sex industry, I really don't feel that there is any reason to feel ashamed telling family and friends.
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Sure, it won't eradicate the discrimination from credit card companies or payment processors, but it'll at least give members of the sex industry some scratch to help cover those exorbitant fees.
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It wouldn't be the first time that the sex industry has dealt with patent trolling: a handful of teledildonics and smart sex toy manufacturers got slapped with legal action last year.
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As someone who works in the sex industry and doesn't use a fake name, I have been doxxed a couple times and have experienced severe paranoia and anxiety as a result.
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Amnesty drew support from public-health advocates and activists who see decriminalization as the best means of reducing the harms associated with the sex industry, including underage prostitution, trafficking and violence.
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I'd gotten health insurance, which covered the cost of the mortgage, so I knew that once I'd finished treatment there was no reason for me to continue in the sex industry.
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I'm currently part of a committee that will be putting a paper before the Lib Dems' conference laying out the challenges that people who have been in the sex industry face.
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The answer is simple: Because cultural misconceptions and intentional ignorance about sex work do a fantastic job of implying that women who work in the sex industry simply cannot be assaulted.
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But all sides agree that prostitution practiced openly would reverberate well beyond the city's thriving but shadowy sex industry of street prostitution, massage parlors, strip clubs and high-end call girls.
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Our intelligence showed us that one of the mechanisms traffickers use to recruit women and girls for the sex industry is befriending and building trust by gifting them handbags and smartphones.
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Alex Trouteaud, Ph.D., is Director of Policy and Research for Demand Abolition, an organization that fights to combat the illegal commercial sex industry in the U.S. — and, by extension, the world.
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In the late 1970s, Mayor Edward I. Koch appointed him to run the Midtown Enforcement Project and clean up Times Square, an area overrun with businesses tied to the sex industry.
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Yet despite Lee's landmark ruling, the South Korean government has never formally recognized its own role in the militarized sex industry or the state's impingement on the rights of Korean women.
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I didn't come out and say it, but at that time in my life, I felt tempted to return to the sex industry — which, by then, was work I'd grown to loathe.
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The media spotlight has been on the sex industry since Amnesty International proposed its decriminalization, with Hollywood A-listers including Meryl Streep and Emma Thompson calling Amnesty to reject its own proposal.
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As controversial as the sex industry is, it's not going anywhere, and at the very least most of us can agree that it should at least be conducted as safely as possible.
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The sex industry of this time began with the corner hustle—heads bent over rolled-down windows—to legalized pornography, where women initially were the product but rarely benefited from the profit.
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Victims include domestic workers being exploited and enslaved overseas, as well as a booming sex industry inside the country - from forced prostitution to cybersex child trafficking, whereby victims are abused over livestreams.
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In Arizona, officials said more than 400 people were discouraged from buying sex when they received texts, calls or Web browser redirects informing them about the impact of the illegal sex industry.
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Talking about these often hard-to-tackle topics becomes almost second nature when you're in the sex industry, despite the harmful stereotype that we're all deviants who set bad examples for children.
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The museum takes a playful approach to much of Thailand's sex industry, but the tone sobers when it comes to the issue of regional migration, a source of labor for the industry.
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The shutdown follows years of mounting political and legal pressure against Backpage, which launched in 2004 and hosts a wide assortment of classified ads having nothing to do with the sex industry.
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What I ended up learning, however, was that the sex industry was much like the vanilla world when it came to assumptions about Asian women — except the stereotypes were flipped upside-down.
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Many also call for legal reform around the country to allow people arrested for prostitution to expunge their criminal records, making it easier for them to get jobs outside the sex industry.
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The main difference, however, is that the mainstream sex industry is aimed at an audience who doesn't give a fuck about new ideas around sex—they just want to have a wank.
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"His operations are cookie-cutter clean; they are the McDonald's of the whole sex industry," William H. Daly, director of the Mayor's Office of Midtown Enforcement, was quoted as saying in 1995.
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She loved medicine—she completed EMT training after leaving the sex industry and had been working as a paramedic for years—and craved the financial stability that nursing would bring her family.
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They are often forced to work in the sex industry in China, or sold to rural Chinese men who cannot find wives, before they escape to the South, human rights groups say.
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But according to Holloway and other artists in the show, most galleries aren't interested in associating themselves with sex work, or assume that artwork about the sex industry will be too explicit.
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Unsurprisingly Craigslist and other sites have removed listings or services that may put them at risk under FOSTA, prompting criticism from the more legitimate sides of the sex industry that relied on them.
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"In the United States, we have created this large machine of vice units to go after the sex industry," explained Jean Bruggeman, executive director of the national anti-trafficking organization Freedom Network USA.
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While many impressive efforts are being taken by the Indian Government to address vulnerability, survey data suggest that domestic work, construction, farming, fishing, manual labor and the sex industry remain sectors of concern.
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He says what's kept him going for this long is his ability to find humor wherever he can in the sex industry, which probably explains why he's starred in so much parody porn.
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Visa and Mastercard tack on heavy processing fees on any product related to the sex industry, which is the primary reason why corporations like PayPal and Stripe refuse XXX merchants on their marketplaces.
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With some costume adjustments and a set change from the streets of London to a Wi-Fi enabled apartment in New York, Harlots could still capture the realities of the sex industry today.
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That group makes up nearly half of female trafficking victims in the Dutch sex industry, Corinne Dettmeijer, National Rapporteur on Trafficking in Human Beings and Sexual Violence against Children, said in the study.
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Dettmeijer said it was known that a relatively high number of women from Central and Eastern Europe were being forced into the sex industry, but the number of underage Dutch girls was surprising.
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"Sex at night, in the condominium, on the beach, in the car—that's not 'dirty,'" exclaims the 68-year-old founder of Empower, a charity that supports women working in Thailand's sex industry.
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The commercial sex industry in Mumbai, one of the biggest destinations in the country for trafficked women, was once concentrated in decrepit brothels in the Kamathipura and Falkland Road areas in South Mumbai.
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"Mumbai's commercial-sex industry has gone from being quite a public, overt operation to a private, covert business," said Sanjay Macwan, field officer director in Mumbai at non-profit IJM (International Justice Mission).
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It's possible to hold the view that the sex industry is ultimately harmful and still set this aside in favour of policies that promote harm reduction and the self determination of sex workers.
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The reality of working in the sex industry is constantly being shamed and vigorously gas lit by authorities, judges, legal counsel, and pretty much everyone else—even when you are telling the truth.
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Moreover, this type of campaign imagery suggests that only certain types of victims are worthy of help, oversimplifying "the social, economic and other pressures involved in the commercial sex industry," the authors said.
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"They may not even have to go to court, but people will will be on notice: You can no longer discriminate against people who have been involved in the sex industry," she said.
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"When that turned out to be lucrative, he upped the ante and placed her on Backpage and got her into more of the sex industry by posting photos and setting up dates," Musick says.
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Although the underground nature of the sex industry makes it difficult to track data on violence against workers, activists and sex workers warn there's already been a noticeable uptick that they blame on FOSTA.
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Meanwhile, Northern Ireland has proposed the Human Trafficking and Exploitation Bill, which criminalizes the men who buy sex, rather than the women in the sex industry—a proposal otherwise known as the Swedish model.
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Dealing with the website is complex because it truly operates as a central hub for the sex industry; advertising is free, and on occasion there's valuable information about law enforcement on the discussion boards.
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I recommend the anthologies Prose & Lore from the Red Umbrella Project and Coming Out Like A Porn Star, which was edited by Jiz Lee, for original writing by folks working in the sex industry.
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"There are physical and sexual assaults coming out of illegal premises that go unreported, along with health risks and exploitation of vulnerable people," says Sergeant Richard Farrelly from Victoria Police's Sex Industry Coordination Unit.
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You sort of get an idea of what culture was like and what the sex industry was like in the 70s when you see the full magazine laid out with the ads and everything.
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SELL/BUY/DATE The chameleonic Sarah Jones ("Bridge & Tunnel") plays multiple characters in this new play, directed by Carolyn Cantor, inspired by true stories of people affected by sex trafficking and the sex industry.
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He pointed out that Exodus Cry was a religious group whose founder has previously protested about abortion and gay marriage, and on its website said its aim was to "abolish the entire sex industry".
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More troublingly, the argument that sex workers should somehow save the world from angry, abusive men suggests that women in the sex industry can endure abuse in a way that other, "regular" women can't.
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I would love to see workers' rights and protection for all women who work within the sex industry, and I would love for young people to understand the difference between real sex and porn sex.
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It should be a straightforward conclusion, and yet: "Many intelligent, well-informed self-described feminists believe sex work should never be decriminalized," sex industry veteran, activist, and educator Tina Horn wrote on Refinery29 last year.
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Hugh, I thank you for everything you've done not only for the sex industry, but for providing endless entertainment for us perverts, throwing the most epic events, and for appreciating women to the finest degree.
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The Liberal Democrats, a smaller opposition party, promised to train police and prosecutors in identifying and supporting victims and to decriminalise sex work to focus police efforts on helping those trafficking into the sex industry.
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Instead, feminist theory on the subject of women's participation in the sex industry has remained locked in a heated debate over whether sex workers are necessarily empowered by their work, or inherently exploited and coerced.
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"You realize it's a lot harder than you think and respect all the people who have been doing it for so long, especially people in the sex industry, because it takes a ton of work."
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Equally, if not more, important is the way sex workers use apps and websites—often ordinary, everyday ones used by many outside the sex industry—to mitigate the risk that comes with their working environment.
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The bar was set up in 2006 by Empower Foundation, a non-profit founded in Bangkok's Patpong red-light district for sex workers who are still stigmatized despite widespread tolerance of Thailand's thriving sex industry.
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There are 25,000 to 35,000 prostitutes in the country, an estimated 60 percent of whom entered the sex industry as minors, according to a study conducted by the International Labour Organization, a United Nations agency.
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Forrest said India, while it had the highest number of slaves, deserved credit for starting to address this although surveys suggested domestic work, construction, farming, manual labor and the sex industry were still sectors of concern.
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He'll be remembered as a "flamboyant brothel owner" (his words), as the face of America's legal sex industry, and for the HBO reality show Cathouse, which chronicled life at his most famous brothel, the Bunny Ranch.
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The qualitative study, "'It gets very intimate for me': Discursive boundaries of pleasure and performance in sex work," was conducted by Elizabeth Megan Smith and involved nine women working in the sex industry in Victoria, Australia.
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For some buyers and sellers alike, Patella-Rey points out, starting with a focus on panties is a good way to dip a toe into the digital sex industry without feeling too exposed or at risk.
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It has exploded into a $240 billion-a-year sex industry that relies on pervasive secrecy, close-knit ownership rings and tens of thousands of mostly foreign women ensnared in a form of modern indentured servitude.
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PUERTO MALDONADO, Peru (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Claudia was 14 when she was trafficked into prostitution in the Peruvian rainforest town of Puerto Maldonado, where a boom in illegal gold mining had created a thriving sex industry.
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Even venues concerned with legal sectors of the sex industry, like stripping, went dark because their owners feared punishment under the law, which made websites liable for the "promotion or facilitation of prostitution" by third parties.
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When I arrived at their offices, we talked about my feelings toward the sex industry, about protecting both my boundaries and those of a client, and they asked whether I knew how a strap-on works.
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While there are medical professionals who treat everyone with the same degree of compassion and respect, the dismissive and derogatory attitudes of some mean that women in the sex industry are not getting the healthcare they need.
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"A healthy, loving sexual experience demands both intimacy and respect, both of which pornography addiction destroys, and I am committed to raising this fundamental awareness and protecting the vulnerable enslaved in the sex industry and abusive relationships."
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With porn sites already representing 52 percent of all internet views in the UK, it clear that the sex industry will find ways to seep through all barriers, even with age-restricted online porn on the way.
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D.M.S.C. has enabled "the sex industry to attract millions of dollars from the Gates Foundation," creating "a big new source of income for brothel owners, pimps and traffickers," she wrote in the newspaper The Hindu in 20083.
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MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Women are increasingly being trafficked into India's sex industry from countries outside South Asia that do not have repatriation agreements, which leaves victims trapped in limbo for months after being rescued, officials said.
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I'd like to think that perhaps I would have, but the fact that violence against women working in the sex industry continues to occur mostly unchecked, leaves me highly skeptical of the #MeToo movement in it's entirety.
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I was initially just curious to try out the sex industry so that I could put myself through graduate school, learn more about myself, and explore the gender power dynamics I'd been fascinated with my entire life.
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Because of this, there's a huge perceived taboo of Asian women entering sex work (which, in my experience, tends to hold true), so Asian women in any part of the sex industry have a premium minority status.
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The arrests highlighted how organized gangs, known as triads in Hong Kong, are believed to wield control over the local sex industry, which often relies on women from mainland China and other countries to fuel the trade.
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An estimated 425,500 people live in conditions of modern slavery in Thailand, according to the Global Slavery Index 2016 by charity Walk Free Foundation, including migrant workers from Cambodia and Laos and women exploited in the sex industry.
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I have heard countless stories similar to mine with victims being lured to the United States with promises of good jobs only to be forced into labor in hotels, restaurants, factories or farms, or into the sex industry.
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It's easy for celebrities and also people who identify as feminist to hear this story of a massive, multi-billion-dollar sex industry based upon the rape of women and children and be like...'I am against that.
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Campaigners say forced labor and exploitation is rife in the sex industry and among 370,000 foreign domestic workers in the former British colony, which maintains a laissez-faire economic system after its return to Chinese rule in 1997.
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The results of such reforms are mixed: In New Zealand, for example, which decriminalized prostitution in 2003, a 2012 study found that "the vast majority of people involved in the sex industry are better off" with decriminalized conditions.
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But at times it was certainly true that I didn't always enjoy my work, and there are women who describe their participation in the sex industry as a result of circumstances other than choice, including literal or economic coercion.
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Campaigners say exploitation in the sex industry is common and forced labor is rife among 370,000 foreign domestic workers in the former British colony, which maintains a laissez-faire economic system despite its return to Chinese rule in 1997.
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Thailand's modern sex industry is believed to have been established with the setting up of Japanese military bases during World War II. It expanded quickly during the Vietnam War, when U.S. troops came to Bangkok for their recreation breaks.
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In part because of the lack of respect we receive, women who work in the sex industry face incredibly high rates of violence on the job, particularly women of color, trans women, and women living in low-income areas.
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" And, since the sharp-tongued Stanger, 55, previously told PEOPLE Now she was "trying to get her away from the sex industry," Abraham added with a laugh: "I think Patti and Candace kind of had their words toward my vagina.
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Although it determines that trafficking is still a "significant problem in Thailand's extensive commercial sex industry," the report cites major improvements within the fishing and seafood industries, as well as an increase in the number of investigations, prosecutions and convictions.
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"We drew in all of these people who otherwise would never on their own have sought out information about the sex industry, because they believe what they see on TV or they believe what they read in the newspapers," Shakti says.
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The actress, 33, is set to star in the upcoming film Rub & Tug which tells the story of a transgender man, Dante "Tex" Gill, who owned a massage parlor in Pittsburgh's underground sex industry in the 1970s, according to Vice News.
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Robots will get smart enough to choose their own life path from becoming a Nobel Prize winner to working in the sex industry, a top roboticist told CNBC on Tuesday, adding to concerns about the potential of artificial intelligence (AI).
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In part, the strategy grew out of a consensus formed in the early 1990s among some human rights groups, religious fundamentalists, national governments, and agencies like the United Nations that considered a prolific sex industry antithetical to civilized modern society.
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It is also focused on a global framework—personified by the "hero NGO" or Bien-Aimé's CATW—that detractors call the "rescue industry," an unlikely alliance between anti-prostitution feminists and the religious right forged to fight the commercial sex industry.
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Critics believe the rescue industry has purposefully conflated sex work and sex trafficking, with "a crusade against the former [being] seen as synonymous with a victory against the latter," according to Feingold, the anthropologist who's researched the sex industry for decades.
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Nonetheless, Walker worries that the original message and metaphor is lost on those who have only come to know about his robot strippers in the past year, assuming that they are, if nothing else, to be used in the sex industry.
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If we truly want to address the human trafficking scourge in the United States, we need to do a better job in preventing victimization and protecting trafficking survivors, as well as prosecuting offenders and patrons of the commercial sex industry.
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But the court's majority argued that decriminalizing prostitution would encourage the sex industry and "further degrade sexual morality" in a culture where, they noted, a common form of bribery involves "jeopdae," a form of wining and dining that often involves prostitutes.
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HBO's The Deuce may be a show about 1970s NYC sex workers from the minds of two white men who qualify for AARP cards, but it has shockingly managed to show the sex industry from the female perspective from the very beginning.
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I may never have children, but if I do, I know that the skepticism towards parents in the sex industry has only put a fire under my ass to do everything in my power to be the best mom I can be.
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" Meldrum adds: "This is still a poor country and people are still looking to get money and unfortunately, with a lack of education, lack of jobs, the sex industry is one of the routes that people can make money to send home.
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Given that there are around 4,000 women working in the sex industry in the Netherlands, which legalised prostitution in 2000 as a way to increase regulation and protect workers, that's at least 400 women forced to perform sexual acts against their will.
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MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Police crackdowns and higher rents are driving Mumbai's commercial sex industry out of traditional red-light areas and underground, with calls on Friday from social workers to boost efforts to ensure sex workers' lives are not put at risk.
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But my desire to destigmatize sex-working mothers came at a price: I received death threats, strangers have called Child Protective Services on me, and I've even been accused of practicing Satanic witchcraft in order to coerce children into the sex industry.
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Related: What It's Like to Date as a Sex Worker Throughout the next couple of months, I interviewed more than 30 friends, acquaintances, and researchers involved in the sex industry about their perspective on a "hierarchy of sex work," if one even existed.
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By 24, she had moved to New York, where she lived downtown in a loft on the Bowery and was working at a bar called Tin Pan Alley in Times Square, which was then a seedy neighborhood in service to the sex industry.
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Some are trapped there for years, forced to work in the sex industry or live with men in the countryside who could not find Chinese wives before the women enlist the help of human rights activists and smugglers to reach South Korea.
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Among those targeted, in what the independent agency called "the most serious corruption issue facing the service," were victims of domestic abuse, drug and alcohol addicts, and people who work in the sex industry, some of whom were in custody at the time.
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Rather, it's that seeing trans sex workers as innocent requires legislators and the public to confront their complicity in creating and maintaining the oppressive conditions that drive trans people, especially trans women of color, into the sex industry in the first place.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Up to 0003 people suspected of being trafficked into Britain to work mainly in the sex industry have been refused entry at a Scottish airport in the past nine months, authorities said on Thursday, amid a nationwide crackdown on modern slavery.
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This year's report states there has been a "significant decline" in the number of children caught up in what it calls "commercial sex establishments," but still calls for increased public awareness around the issue and campaigns to reduce local demand for the sex industry.
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That year, Raven Kaliana, a survivor of the child sex industry who was trafficked by her parents throughout her childhood and adolescence, told the Guardian about her abuse, explaining that she shares her story in order to demonstrate that this abuse is all around us.
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It was while studying creative writing at John Hopkins that she began a career in the sex industry in her early twenties, starting with webcam and fetish work before transitioning to in-person and full-service escorting for reasons she didn't divulge to VICE.
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"I have friends who are involved in various areas of the sex industry and I thought it would be cool to bring them all together to share a collective, sexual energy," Fatima Mechtab, the event producer and marketing director for the club, told me.
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To mine copper or cut cane, outsiders descended on scruffy, fast-growing towns like Mazabuka, hoping to make a new life and where the men went, a sex industry followed with local women touring bars, inns and truck stops to sell sex to newcomers.
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Beliefs versus empirical evidence The answer to how U.S. lawmakers respond to Amnesty's call will depend in part on their level of courage to fight other institutional and cultural pressures to maintain and even increase criminal penalties for clients and other individuals connected to the sex industry.
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Even though I'm a sex-positive person, I can't imagine what it would feel like to discover that one of my parents had been a personality in the sex industry all along, but that's also impossible to imagine because that's not who either of my parents were.
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And for the sex industry, we need full decriminalization of sex work to improve working conditions, give sex workers rights, remove the stigma, and show that sex work is real labor, reduce sexual violence, and altogether improve the well-being, safety, and working conditions of sex work.
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I can tell you that the pros of having a job in the sex industry are that I get to set my hours to maximize the time I can spend with her, and that I can afford things like good preschools, healthy food choices, and so forth.
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And I'm specifically concerned about the actresses who work in the porn industry, the escorts, the sex workers, and all the women in the sex industry—who are at high risk, but rarely get taken seriously and are almost never offered a seat at the table.
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The series, depicting the sex industry in seedy Times Square in the 1970s, was his brainchild, hashed out over long visits with the players from that time and hand-delivered to David Simon, the acclaimed creator of "The Wire" and an executive producer of the new series.
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On Reddit, Hookerfucker2000 has become something of an evangelist for Tijuana's sex industry, dispensing tips to newbies and veterans on everything from where to park on the US side of the border to negotiating at the bars and strip clubs on Calle Coahuila, the sex workers' main drag.
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Gross highlights WoodRocket's Ask A Porn Star video series, which he compares to Us Weekly's "Stars – They're Just Like Us" feature, as another attempt to bring press attention to porn by helping to normalize and demystify sex and the sex industry — and also the people who work within it.
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But the reality is that the primary struggle within the US sex industry is not a matter of whether sex workers are victims or villains, as civilians are so apt to discuss, but the ways in which we evaluate one another and exhibit ourselves in the business of sex.
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Women and girls are disproportionately affected by modern slavery, accounting for 28.7 million, or 71 per cent of the overall total, 84 per cent of victims of forced marriage and 99 per cent of victims of forced labor in the commercial sex industry, according to the Global Estimates.
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In this situation, it's not impossible to envisage hard-pressed decision makers shrinking expenditure through the reduction of police numbers in the Holbeck zone, where the de-facto decriminalization of the area's ingrained sex industry presents the potential of freeing up the police resources previously used to curb it.
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But as someone who has known many sex workers, both personally and professionally — I am a former editor of the sex industry-focused blog Fleshbot — it's easy to see the vast gap between the reality of sex workers' lives and the bleak fiction peddled by the anti-sex work industry.
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Data on the prevalence of trafficking in the sex industry is hard to come by, but D'Adamo of Reframe Health and Justice says the most reliable studies have found around 15 percent to 25 percent of minors who sell sex report having been exploited by a third party at some point.
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I've argued with both men and women who say it will kill the mood to engage in the overt communication required to ensure that their sex partners are actively consenting (to which I reply that even in the internet age, the phone sex industry is still profitable for a reason).
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Decriminalization advocates point to a 2012 study that found that "the vast majority of people involved in the sex industry are better off" in New Zealand, while opponents call attention to the National Council of Women of New Zealand's finding that some prostitutes continue to be as young as 13.
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"I first started collaborating with ABLE in 2009, after I lost my mom in 2008, because they create jobs for women who don't have the opportunity [otherwise]," Minka tells PEOPLE exclusively about the company which started by employing and training women in Ethiopia who were coming out of the commercial sex industry.
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The British minister of culture said on Tuesday that he previously dated a woman who was working in the sex industry and that tabloid newspapers had known her true occupation before he did — raising questions about whether his role as a government minister with oversight of the nation's news media had been compromised.
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Having worked in the sex industry for most of my adult life and as a mother who tries to be kinder, more patient, and loving with each passing day, my vision of the perfect mother is an amalgamation of all the inspirational sex worker moms I know in my day-to-day life.
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I could be wrong, but when there's a portly, balding dude with questionable dental hygiene who looks at the floor throughout the tour, and the woman he's with is fit, gorgeous, personable, fawns over him unnecessarily, and talks openly of her past beginnings in the sex industry, it certainly raises some questions.
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" Eleanor Hancock, a graduate student studying the effects of technology on the sex industry and a panelist at the 2nd International Love and Sex with Robots Congress held in London last month, says that sex robots (largely designed for, and by, men) commodify women, "but we already have real people selling sex—this is about something else.
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As with most of Simon's television work, The Deuce is a slow burn, more intent on creating a world than speeding through plot — this eight-episode first season sets the table potentially for two more that Simon and Pelecanos have planned, which would eventually lead the characters into the still-debauched sex industry of the '183s.
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Two sex worker's rights organizations, Best Practices Policy Project and the New Jersey Red Umbrella Alliance, are in the midst of conducting a needs assessment for New Jersey sex workers and so far, they've found that over a quarter of sex workers in the state say they've been denied a job because of their involvement in the sex industry.
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"No doubt a huge number of sex workers operate in grey and black markets, meaning their income is not always officially accounted for, especially workers who are paid in cash," Lola Davina, author of Thriving in Sex Work: Heartfelt Advice for Staying Sane in the Sex Industry who has been in the sex work industry for 15 years, told me in an email.
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Suggestions: A Disgrace Reserved for Prostitutes, Economies of Desire: Sex and Tourism in Cuba and the Dominican Republic, heauxthots: On Terminology, and Other [Un]Important Things, Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking: Beyond Victims and Villains, $pread: The Best of the Magazine that Illuminated the Sex Industry and Started a Media Revolution , and Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers' Rights. 279.
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No Little Girl has three major arguments for shutting down the legal brothel industry: Brothels do not significantly contribute to their counties' economies while deterring other businesses from setting up shop; they increase violence against women who don't work in the sex industry; and they're inherently abusive (because, as the campaign's tagline reminds visitors, "no little girl grows up wanting to be a prostitute").
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" The organization did not, however, consult with the Hollywood luminaries — Allison Williams, Lisa Kudrow, Emily Blunt, Emma Thompson, and Meryl Streep, to name a few more — who have, via the CATW's letter to Amnesty's Board of Directors, declared themselves "troubled by Amnesty's proposal to adopt a policy that calls for the decriminalization of pimps, brothel owners, and buyers of sex — the pillars of a $99 billion global sex industry.
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Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth Ann WarrenDemocratic presidential candidates react to Trump impeachment: 'No one is above the law' Trump invokes son Barron while attacking Warren at rally Overnight Energy: Fish and Wildlife Service to review allegations over Trump Jr.'s Mongolian hunting trip | Groups challenge EPA decision on slaughterhouse rules | Greenpeace gives Bloomberg D-plus on climate MORE (D-Mass.), on Tuesday introduced a bill to study the effects of a recent sex trafficking law on the health and safety of sex workers in the U.S. The SAFE SEX Workers Study Act, which calls for the government to conduct a wide-ranging study into the experiences of sex workers, emerges in response to evidence that a sex trafficking bill signed into law last year has dismantled vital online ecosystems for people engaged in consensual and often life-sustaining work in the sex industry.
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Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth Ann WarrenDemocratic presidential candidates react to Trump impeachment: 'No one is above the law' Trump invokes son Barron while attacking Warren at rally Overnight Energy: Fish and Wildlife Service to review allegations over Trump Jr.'s Mongolian hunting trip | Groups challenge EPA decision on slaughterhouse rules | Greenpeace gives Bloomberg D-plus on climate MORE (D-Mass.), on Tuesday introduced a bill to study the effects of a recent sex trafficking law on the health and safety of sex workers in the U.S. The SAFE SEX Workers Study Act, which calls for the government to conduct a wide-ranging study into the experiences of sex workers, emerges in response to evidence that a sex trafficking bill signed into law last year has dismantled vital online ecosystems for people engaged in consensual and often life-sustaining work in the sex industry.
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