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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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Prostitution in Australia is governed by state and territory laws, which vary considerably, although none ban prostitution outright.
- Tasmania, Western Australia and South Australia operate under an abolitionism framework, where the selling of sex itself is not illegal, but activities such as keeping brothels and pimping are illegal.
- Queensland operates under a legalization framework, where sex work is legal, but brothels must be licensed and can face criminal penalties for operating without a license. Private sex work is legal if the sex worker is working alone. A bill was introduced into the Parliament of Queensland on 15 February 2024 to decriminalise most criminal penalties relating to sex work, such as the requirement for brothels to be licensed or for sex workers outside of licensed brothels to have to work alone.
- The Northern Territory, New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory and Victoria operate under a decriminalisation framework, where most criminal penalties associated with sex work have been removed and brothels or prostitutes are not required to be licensed, however all jurisdictions still have some remaining regulations in regards to where prostitutes or brothels can operate, or on other activities such as advertising.
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- Image 1Legalization – 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 3A 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)
- Image 4A 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 5An Ancient Greek urn depicts a prostitute and her client. (from Sex work)
- Image 6A political cartoon from 1787 jesting about the notion of taxation affecting prostitutes (from Prostitution)
- Image 9News report about three brothels operating in Albuquerque, New Mexico that were raided by police in 1922 (from Prostitution)
- Image 12Statue 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 13A street prostitute talking to a potential customer in Turin, Italy, 2005 (from Prostitution)
- Image 17An oiran preparing herself for a client, ukiyo-e print by Suzuki Haronubu (1765) (from Prostitution)
- Image 18A sex worker in Berlin in 2001 (from Sex work)
- Image 19World map of pornography (18+) lawsPornography legalPornography legal under some restrictionsPornography illegalData unavailable(from Sex work)
- Image 20Prostitute c. 1890. (from Prostitution)
- Image 22World 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 23A prostitute in Amsterdam's red-light district talks with a potential customer. (from Prostitution)
- Image 25Women in an early San Francisco bordello in 1870 (from Prostitution)
- Image 26A 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 27Sex workers demonstrating for better working conditions at the 2009 Marcha Gay in Mexico City (from Sex work)
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- Image 1Nao Oikawa (及川 奈央, Oikawa Nao, born April 21, 1981 in Hiroshima) is a Japanese actress, TV personality and was also a former AV idol who was very popular in the early 2000s. (Full article...)
- Image 2Yuri Komuro (Japanese: 小室友里, Hepburn: Komuro Yuri) (born July 28, 1976 in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese actress, author and former AV idol. She was one of the top actresses in the AV field during the late 1990s and in her dominant period from 1996 to 1999 was called "The AV Queen". (Full article...)
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Aella (born February 22, 1992) is an American writer, blogger and sex worker who, as described by David Auerbach, "has written extensively about the psychology and economics of online sex work, conducting extensive surveys and research in order to lay out the ecosystem of online sex workers."
Aella grew up in Idaho as the oldest of three daughters of conservative parents who were part of a community of fundamentalist Christians; their family name has been withheld in media coverage for privacy reasons. She moved out at age 17 after a fallout with her parents, and in 2012, after quitting a job as an assembly line worker in a factory, began working as a camgirl. She eventually became one of the highest-earning creators on OnlyFans, making over $100,000 in some months. By 2021, she was described as having set herself apart partly by conducting extensive market research, e.g. surveying almost 400 fellow female OnlyFans performers about their incomes and identifying factors that were correlated with higher earnings. She has also been involved in several startups. (Full article...) - Image 4Louise Fitzgerald Wightman (née Johnson), also known as Lucy Wightman (born June 18, 1959) is an American former exotic dancer who performed in Boston and Providence during the 1970s and 1980s, using the stage name Princess Cheyenne. The juxtaposition of her education and class background with her career attracted media attention. In the spring of 2007, she again attracted public interest, this time for being convicted of being a practicing psychologist without a license in two South Shore Massachusetts communities. Since then she has worked as a writer, photographer, and blogger. (Full article...)
- Image 5Yutaka Mukaiyama (向山豊, Mukaiyama Yutaka, born December 15, 1966) is a Japanese pornographic actor and a former professional wrestler better known as Chocoball Mukai (チョコボール向井, Chokobōru Mukai).
Beginning his career in 1990s, Mukai became one of the more well known JAV stars in all of Japan, and holds the record for being the highest paid AV actor ever, earning over ¥20 million JPY at the height of his fame. (Full article...) - Image 6
Ramon Nomar (born 9 January 1974) is a Venezuelan-born Spanish pornographic actor and director. His accolades include the Hot d'Or Award for Best New Actor and the XBIZ Award for Male Performer of the Year. Nomar broke into the pornographic film industry after being discovered by Italian director Luca Damiano at a casting contest. He has worked with pornographic film producers Reality Kings, Brazzers and New Sensation.
Nomar eventually broke into both the European and U.S. industries. He is one of the most popular actors in the porn industry. He has stated in the past that he had always been in favor of well-scripted features as opposed to gonzo pornography, although he had no objections to appearing in films of either style. (Full article...) - Image 7
Sophie Anderson (23 November 1987 – 30 November 2023) was an English pornographic actress and internet personality. She began appearing in pornographic films for such studios as Fake Taxi and Evil Angel in 2017, later finding internet fame in October 2018 when she and fellow porn star Rebecca More, who branded themselves "The Cock Destroyers", posted a video that went viral. Both her and More's videos became internet memes and the pair were subsequently regarded as "gay icons" within the LGBTQ+ community, which saw them go on to front the Men.com series Slag Wars: The Next Destroyer (2020). Anderson appeared on various podcasts discussing her life and also served as a team captain on the Canadian OutTV sex education quiz show Fucking Smart (2022–2023). (Full article...) - Image 8Mara Gaye (September 16, 1920 – July 22, 2005), born Marjorie Helen Ginsberg in The Bronx, New York, was a professional showgirl, dancer with the Radio City Music Hall Rockettes (1938–1943), and exotic burlesque striptease dancer of the 1940s through the 1960s. She also performed under the name Marjorie Gaye. (Full article...)
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Amy Elizabeth Fisher (born August 21, 1974) is an American woman, who, in 1992, at the age of 17, shot and severely wounded Mary Jo Buttafuoco, the wife of Joey Buttafuoco, with whom Fisher was in a sexual relationship. Initially charged with first-degree attempted murder, she eventually pleaded guilty to first-degree aggravated assault and served seven years in prison. Due to her age and her affair with a much older man, she became known in the tabloid media as "the Long Island Lolita". Fisher was paroled in 1999 and became a writer, a webcam model, and a pornographic actress. (Full article...) - Image 10Dillon Day (born August 18, 1970 in Ohio, United States) is a pornographic actor and director. (Full article...)
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Mike Horner (born Donald Thomas Hart February 3, 1955) is an American pornographic film actor. He is sometimes credited as Don Hart (a play on "Darn Hard"), Don Horner, "Dan Sir" or Johnny Wilson.
Horner began acting in small sex films, at the time referred to as loops (named after the style of their presentation, constantly looped 16 mm films shown in booths), in January 1978. His first feature movie was 1979's Tangerine. He has been in over 1500 feature (story-based) films and videos, and he has performed in over 500 additional all sex videos, with approximately 1800 actresses. A frequent and popular costar in the 1980s was adult film actress, Hyapatia Lee. (Full article...) - Image 12Aino Kishi (Japanese: 希志あいの, Hepburn: Kishi Aino, born February 1, 1988) is a Japanese actress, singer and former AV idol. Starting her career in 2008, Kishi starred in over 400 adult films and was named among the most popular adult film actresses of her generation, with her popularity crossing into mainstream acting appearances as well. She was also a member of the first generation of the idol group Ebisu Muscats between 2008 and 2013. Kishi retired from the adult film scene in December 2015 and returned into civil life. (Full article...)
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Bobbi Eden (born 4 January 1980) is a Dutch pornographic actress and international magazine model. She was the runner-up for the Dutch Penthouse Pet of the Year. She had also modeled for magazines including Club, Men Only, and Soho.
She appeared with Dutch DJ Ferry Corsten in the video for his single "Watch Out". In the video, a tiny Corsten races around in a model racing car while Bobbi looms overhead with the remote control. She has written columns for the magazines Passie and Chick, and currently writes for the magazine Panorama. (Full article...) - Image 14Rebecca More (born 7 August 1980) is an English pornographic actress and model. More began her pornographic career in 2010, and went on to appear in an array of films for various different studios until her retirement from mainstream pornography in 2023. She found internet fame in October 2018 after she and fellow porn star Sophie Anderson, who branded themselves "The Cock Destroyers", posted a video that went viral. Both her and Anderson's videos have become memes and the pair have subsequently been regarded as "gay icons". (Full article...)
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The two previous murders linked to the Whitechapel murderer are unlikely to have been committed by Jack the Ripper. When the murder of Mary Ann Nichols was initially linked to this series, it increased both press and public interest into the criminal activity and general living conditions of the inhabitants of the East End of London. (Full article...) - Image 16John Calvin Culver (November 2, 1943 – August 10, 1987), better known under his stage name Casey Donovan, was an American male pornographic film actor from the late 1960s until the mid-1980s, appearing primarily in adult films and videos catering to gay male audiences, during the Golden Age of Porn. Following a brief career as a Latin teacher and a stint as a highly-paid male model, Donovan appeared in Boys in the Sand (1971), the film that would cement his status as a gay icon. Attempts to build on his notoriety to achieve mainstream crossover success failed, but Donovan continued to be a bankable star in the adult industry for the next 15 years. He was briefly a mainstream actor, who appeared on stage, as well as a theatre producer and manager, and appeared as himself in TV series Emerald City. (Full article...)
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T. T. Boy (born Phillip Troy Rivera, April 30, 1968) is a Puerto Rican pornographic performer and podcaster. He made his adult video debut in 1988.
He twice won the XRCO Male Performer of the Year award, and was named the 1997 AVN Performer of the Year. In 2000, he was elected to the XRCO Hall of Fame. In 2003, he was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame. He has worked under such names as T.T. Boyd, Max Reynolds, Max Cash, and Butch. (Full article...) - Image 18Douglas Murrell Cooper, known professionally as Tim Kramer (born 1952 or 1958, died April 16, 1992) was a gay porn star, escort and health business owner best known for the 1983 homoerotic film Gayracula among his films. (Full article...)
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Laverie Vallee (née Cooper; July 18, 1875 – February 6, 1949), best known by her stage name Charmion, was an American vaudeville trapeze artist and strongwoman. One of her risqué trapeze acts was captured on film in 1901 by Thomas Edison. (Full article...) - Image 20
Sara Tommasi (born 9 June 1981) is an Italian actress, television personality, and former pornographic actress. She made her film debut in the 2008 comedy Ultimi della classe, playing a teacher who had appeared in a "sexy" calendar shoot. Tommasi herself had appeared topless in a Max Calendar shoot in 2007. In 2010, she appeared nude in an episode of the television series Crimini. (Full article...) - Image 21Vednita Carter is an American anti-sex trafficking activist, author, and executive director of the "Breaking Free" organization which helps women escape prostitution. (Full article...)
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Miles Long (born November 4, 1968) is an American director, producer, actor, writer, photographer and record label owner. (Full article...) - Image 23Natsuki Ozawa (Japanese: 小沢 なつき, Hepburn: Ozawa Natsuki) (born April 19, 1972) is a Japanese singer, actress and AV actress who has appeared in mainstream films and adult videos. (Full article...)
- Image 24Fredrik Eklund (born April 26, 1977) is a Swedish real estate broker, former IT entrepreneur, reality television star, and author. He is best known for starring in the Bravo reality series, Million Dollar Listing New York for all of its nine seasons. In 2015, Eklund released his book The Sell: The Secrets of Selling Anything to Anyone, which made The New York Times Best Seller list. (Full article...)
- Image 25Bernie Barker (July 31, 1940 – March 21, 2007) was recognized in July 2003 by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest male stripper. The former nuclear power plant worker and insurance salesman had taken up erotic dancing in 2000 at the age of 60 to keep in shape after surgery for the prostate cancer that would eventually cause his death. Over his stripping career, Barker titled in 42 stripper contests. He appeared on the first season of America's Got Talent in 2006.
Barker's quest to place in Guinness began in 1978 with an unsuccessful bid to claim a record in swimming.
He died after finally losing his battle with prostate cancer on March 21, 2007. (Full article...)
Did you know...
- ... that the posthumously released documentary Clean centered on the life of Sandra Pankhurst, a former sex worker, drag queen, and crime scene cleaner?
- ... that a Harvey's franchise known for being a hub for sex work was described by one artist as a "legendary Toronto icon"?
- ... 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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