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Introduction
Sex work is "the exchange of sexual services, performances, or products for material compensation. It includes activities of direct physical contact between buyers and sellers as well as indirect sexual stimulation". Sex work only refers to voluntary sexual transactions; thus, the term does not refer to human trafficking and other coerced or nonconsensual sexual transactions such as child prostitution. The transaction must take place between consenting adults of the legal age and mental capacity to consent and must take place without any methods of coercion, other than payment. The term emphasizes the labor and economic implications of this type of work. Furthermore, some prefer the use of the term because it grants more agency to the sellers of these services. (Full article...)
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Current laws passed by the Parliament of Canada in 2014 make it illegal to purchase or advertise sexual services and illegal to live on the material benefits from sex work. The law officially enacted criminal penalties for "Purchasing sexual services and communicating in any place for that purpose."
It is the first time in Canadian history that the exchange of sexual services for money is made illegal. The Canadian Department of Justice claims that the new legal framework "reflects a significant paradigm shift away from the treatment of prostitution as 'nuisance', as found by the Supreme Court of Canada in Bedford, toward treatment of prostitution as a form of sexual exploitation". Many sex workers' rights organizations, however, argue that the new law entrenches and maintains harm against sex workers since sex workers are still committing a crime, albeit there is an immunity from arrest for material benefits and advertising.
The new laws came in response to the Canada (AG) v Bedford ruling of the Supreme Court of Canada, which found to be unconstitutional the laws prohibiting brothels, public communication for the purpose of prostitution and living on the profits of prostitution. The ruling gave Parliament of Canada 12 months to rewrite the prostitution laws with a stay of effect so that the current laws remain in force. Amending legislation came into effect on December 6, 2014, which made the purchase of sexual services illegal. (Full article...)Selected images
- Image 1A sex worker in Berlin in 2001 (from Sex work)
- Image 2World map of pornography (18+) lawsPornography legalPornography legal under some restrictionsPornography illegalData unavailable(from Sex work)
- Image 4An oiran preparing herself for a client, ukiyo-e print by Suzuki Haronubu (1765) (from Prostitution)
- Image 5Legalization – prostitution legal and regulatedDecriminalization – No criminal penalties for prostitutionAbolitionism – prostitution is legal, but organized activities such as brothels and pimping are illegal; prostitution is not regulatedNeo-abolitionism – illegal to buy sex and for 3rd party involvement, legal to sell sexProhibitionism – prostitution illegalLegality varies with local laws(from Prostitution)
- Image 6Statue to honor the sex workers of the world. Installed March 2007 in Amsterdam, Oudekerksplein, in front of the Oude Kerk, in Amsterdam's red-light district De Wallen. Titled Belle, the inscription to the piece says "Respect sex workers all over the world." (from Prostitution)
- Image 8Sex workers demonstrating for better working conditions at the 2009 Marcha Gay in Mexico City (from Sex work)
- Image 9Women in an early San Francisco bordello in 1870 (from Prostitution)
- Image 11A political cartoon from 1787 jesting about the notion of taxation affecting prostitutes (from Prostitution)
- Image 12A street prostitute talking to a potential customer in Turin, Italy, 2005 (from Prostitution)
- Image 13A prostitute and her customer illustrated on an ancient Greek wine cup; the act of prostitution is indicated by the coin purse above the figures. (from Prostitution)
- Image 16A prostitute in Amsterdam's red-light district talks with a potential customer. (from Prostitution)
- Image 18A liberated Chinese girl who had been forced in to sexual slavery by the Japanese military sits on a stretcher and speaks to a British military serviceman. (from Prostitution)
- Image 21News report about three brothels operating in Albuquerque, New Mexico that were raided by police in 1922 (from Prostitution)
- Image 22Prostitute c. 1890. (from Prostitution)
- Image 23An Ancient Greek urn depicts a prostitute and her client. (from Sex work)
- Image 26World map of prostitution lawsLegalization (regulation) – Prostitution legal and regulatedAbolitionism – Prostitution is legal, but organized activities such as brothels and pimping are illegal; prostitution is not regulatedNeo-abolitionism (Nordic model) – Illegal to buy sex and for 3rd party involvement, legal to sell sexProhibitionism – Prostitution illegal in all aspects (selling and buying)Legality varies with local laws(from Sex work)
- Image 27A detail from plate 1 of William Hogarth's (1697–1764) The Harlot's Progress, showing brothel-keeper Elizabeth Needham, on the right, procuring a young woman who has just arrived in London (from Prostitution)
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- ... that the posthumously released documentary Clean centered on the life of Sandra Pankhurst, a former sex worker, drag queen, and crime scene cleaner?
- ... that Indonesian politician Sanusi's parents discouraged him from becoming a government employee, because his salary would be paid partly from taxes on alcohol and prostitution?
- ... that Lea Ackermann, a German nun of the Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Africa, fought against forced prostitution and sex tourism in East Africa?
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