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This is absolutely not what is happening. Research has shown 6% of uk students are already sex working throughout their degree. These students need support which is what was happening. Let us explain.
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Horrific that Durham University is offering training to students who want to be sex workers part-time. Sex work is degrading, dangerous and exploitative. Uni should have nothing to do with it
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More British people support sex-work law reform than are against it, study finds
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The Sex Work Research Hub is a group over over 150 academics across a range of Universities & disciplines working on sex work & sexual exploitation. We do NOT support the Nordic Model. The research shows it harms sex workers. Read our statement here
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Students in sex work need to be supported, not shunned, stigmatised, and left on their own.
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To suggest universities are training students to be sex workers is ludicrous. It is also very dangerous because this training is sorely needed to keep people safe. Manufactured outrage like this makes institutions less likely to offer it.
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This training is to make sure students in sex work do not face discrimination at university, that staff fully understand sex work & the law, and that all support is made available.
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This being the case, a training programme called the Student Sex Work Stigma Toolkit has been created by academics, sex workers, and sex worker righty groups. It is designed to educate staff on sex work & what support is needed.
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This training is being delivered at various universities. It makes sure staff know how to support students, what organisations are there for them, what to look out for - it also makes sure students can’t be expelled for disclosing & are protected under discrimination clauses
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NO university has ever “trained” students in how to be a sex worker. No university has ever suggested sex work as a possible career option.
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Most university staff do not know how to support a student if they disclose they are sex working. They do not know what the law is, what help there is, or what how to help.
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Students often do not disclose they are sex working and many fear they will be expelled or face stigma at uni if they do.
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Uk students are in sex work. You can read about the the Student sex work research project here
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Today is December 17th, the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. As academics, we stand with the sex work community in fighting to end violence against them. Today, we remember all those who have lost their lives.
#idevasw2019
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@DrJessTaylor
This is false, damaging & requires correction. The Student Sex Work Toolkit is not a guide to entering prostitution, nor does the University of Leicester guide students into sex work. This toolkit trains staff in supporting students, an estimated 5% of whom are in sex work
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“A link between stigma and the criminalisation of sex work is well established: the criminalisation of sex work simultaneously constructs sex workers as deviant, dirty, threatening, and as passive victims...”
Lynzi Armstrong, 2018
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Today is the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers
#IDEVASW2020
. As academics, we stand with sex workers mourning those who have lost their lives & in the fight for sex worker rights.
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An open letter from the Sex Work Research Hub to the Conservative Party Human Rights Commission on their report into the sex trade, ‘the Limits of Consent’
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The Student Sex Work Project, carried out at the university of Swansea, is the largest study conducted on student participation in the sex industry. It found that nearly 5% of UK students that responded to the survey have worked in the sex industry
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Today is December 17th, the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. The Sex Work Research Hub stands with the sex work community in fighting to end violence against them. Today, we remember all those who have lost their lives.
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Yes. Beyond the Gaze was a 3 yr multi disciplinary research project into uk online sex work & it found that online sex work is significantly safer than street sex work because it allowed for screening, anonymity, & independent work.
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Sex workers' pictures can be seen next to adverts for lawn mowers and patio furniture, but has the move away from the streets made prostitution any safer for the women involved?
#BBCPanorama
20:30 BBC One.
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Today is International Sex Worker Day 2020. As academics, we stand with the sex work community in fighting to end violence against them.
#ISWD2020
#sexworkersrights
#InternationalSexWorkersDay
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The New Zealand Prostitution Reform Act (PRA) fully decriminalised sex work in 2003. Five years after its introduction the Prostitution Law Review Committee found:
“The sex industry has not increased in size, and many of the social evils predicted by some who opposed the...
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“The data clearly shows that criminalizing consensual adult sexual services causes severe harms, which fall mainly on the most marginalized groups” —women, ppl of color, transgender & non-binary ppl, ppl with disabilities, & economically marginalised ppl.
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The Sex Work Research Hub is a network of over 150 academics researching sex work & this is not what the research says. You are confusing decrim with legalisation & wilfully misrepresenting the facts to suit your agenda. The research shows decrim reduces harm against sex workers
'A 2012 study of 150 countries showed that decriminalising prostitution results in more prostitution – which means more trafficked women.'
Pimps & punters are the main beneficiaries of decriminalisation. Criminalise THEM not the prostituted women!
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“Criminalisation and repressive policing of sex work linked to increased risk of violence, HIV and sexually transmitted infections.”
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@SexWorkHive
The evidence is clear that the Nordic Model causes considerable harm to sex workers. The sex work research hub is an organisation of academics who research sex work. We also oppose sex buyers laws & have issued a statement with supporting evidence here.
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Research has found that the ‘Nordic model’ of regulating sex work means that clients become less willing to give sex workers their contact details, which is an important safety measure (Levy and Jacobsson 2014).
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“In order to decrease human trafficking, health care workers should support the full decriminalization of prostitution.”
(Erin Albright and Kate D'Adamo, 2017)
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@SarahChampionMP
@PASunesson
@appgsextrade
We’re a network of 150 academics across the UK, and we research sex work. All the research shows that criminalising the clients causes significant harm to those selling sex.
This is ideological, not evidence based.
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“Robust research has shown that when sex workers or their activities are criminalised their health and safety is severely compromised.”
- British Medical Journal, 2018; 361 doi:
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In 2015, Janice Irvine found that academics who research
#sexuality
studies experience stigma within higher education.
Sound familiar?
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@WorkPsychol
@uniofleicester
This resource has been put together after research found that 5% of UK students are or have been in the sex industry & face discrimination & stigma. It is there to train university staff in helping vulnerable students who are in sex work. It is not a recruitment drive.
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Today, we remember Laura Lee. Campaigner, activist, and a true force of nature.
Her tireless fight for
#sexworker
rights was an inspiration to all who met her. Thank you, Laura.
#RememberingLauraLee
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The Sex Work Research Hub stands with sex workers in opposing the introduction of the so called Nordic model of regulating sex work. Our research, & that of our peers around the world, show how dangerous these laws are to sex worker safety.
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SWRH scholars urge
@appgsextrade
to release methodology & data for transparency & analysis, as required of scientific research
#sexwork
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@SarahChampionMP
You have already been given all the existing peer reviewed research into the effect of the Nordic Model of regulating sex work, and have ignored it. All the data shows that end demand tactics create very unsafe conditions for those selling sex.
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Today is
#InternationalSexWorkerDay
and marks the sex worker occupation of Église Saint-Nizier in Lyon on June 2, 1975, to protest police brutality & unsafe working conditions.
The Sex Work Research Hub stands in solidarity with the continuing fight for sex worker rights
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This thread is a fantastic breakdown of the poorly researched, faulty, and ideologically driven article on sex work in the Guardian today. The “studies” cited have largely been discredited, distorted, or made up. This article is a disgrace.
It is so utterly depressing and draining that week after week the guardian continues to publish poorly researched and under-referenced pieces about sex work which hit every single cliche, and are full of outright lies.
Shadowy heels on the street? ✅
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“These findings suggest that criminalisation and policing strategies that target clients reproduce the harms created by the criminalisation of sex work, in particular, vulnerability to violence and HIV/ STIs.”
(Krüsi A, et al. 2014)
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This is not ideology or a matter of opinion. This is evidence based fact. Criminalising the income of sex workers reduces their ability to work safely - this is especially true of the most vulnerable. We will support sex workers in opposing laws that have been shown to harm them
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@WhoresofYore
@princessjack
@BBCNews
@bbcstories
@aebrahim93
@BasisSexWork
@literaturepeep
@unitedstripper
@SWARM_North
@POWNotts
@NationalUglyMug
@SarahxDorman
@RedUmbrellaCL
Violating the anonymity of socially vulnerable groups such as sex workers is ethically unsound & potentially dangerous. No academic researching sex work would be allowed to do this because it poses serious danger to the individual & compromises the integrity of the work.
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See our Letter of Compliant to WEP & Sophie Walker for her oppressive & dehumanizing comments towards
#sexwork
-ers. Apologize for misogyny & attack on vulnerable populations
@WhoresofYore
@ProstitutesColl
@SexWorkHive
@ScotPep
@UmbrellaLane
@sexworkeurope
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21 Questions by
@corbeau_1863
with extraordinary
#sexwork
activist
@GlasgaeLauraLee
now up on our blog Check her out. Her legal battle for rights & safety in Northern Ireland continues...
#decrimnow
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Miller and Schwartz (1995) argued that the constant “verbal abuse that labels and stigmatizes [sex workers], creates contexts in which violence against them becomes legitimized.”
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“By framing sex work as an issue of crime, with SW being both the perpetrators of crime & the potential victims of exploitative crime, the state is able to legitimise its actions against SW, while ignoring the harm done to SW by the state”
(Graham, 2017)
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...decriminalisation of the sex industry have not been experienced. On the whole, the PRA has been effective in achieving its purpose & the Committee is confident that the vast majority of people involved in the sex industry are better off under the PRA than they were previously”
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@princessjack
@BBCNews
@aebrahim93
@bbcstories
The sex work research hub is a network of UK academics conducting research on sex work. Ethical practice recognises that compromising the anonymity & confidentiality of sex workers presents a serious danger their personal safety.
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New article from Eurydice Aroney on the significance of the 1975 French sex workers strike.
You can follow Eurydice
@eekiemout
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These proposals will force even more sex workers offline & on to the streets. Research has shown that online sex work is safer as it allows screening and for clients to be traced.
See research here
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The sex work research hub supports
#IDEVASW
remembrance day unequivocally; recognising the role that academics and researchers have as allies to sex workers and organisations, in the fight for rights, safety and decriminalisation.
Our statement.
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“Criminalization ironically creates a deregulated sex industry by driving sex workers underground. Criminalization creates a barrier between standard regulators of work and business and the sex industry.”
Minichiello, V., Scott, J., & Cox, C. (2018).
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“Sex work researchers, like all researchers, have ethical responsibilities to ensure that our research practices are respectful, conducted without harm & that our work contributes to improving the lives of our participants”
Huysamen & Sanders, 2021
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Our Post Graduate Research Conference is happening next Tuesday 26th April. Tickets are completely free and there'll be exciting talks on sex work, religion, mental health, race, risk and identity. We can't wait :
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@lukedepulford
The sex work research hub is an organisation of over 150 academics who research sex work in the UK. The evidence clearly demonstrates that end demand tactics only increase violence against sex workers. This is a dangerous proposal that ignores the considerable data available.
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@SarahChampionMP
No research published on sex work has managed to access “virtually every” person selling sex.
For example, the government funded research carried out at Bristol university on uk sex work took a year, a team of researchers, & thousands of pounds to get 529 sex worker respondents
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We now have a blog!! Hub members & friends pls contact
@DrMaryLaing
or Dr. Nichola Smith to post content.
#sexwork
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“Decriminalization [of sex work in New Zealand] has been successful in making the industry safer and improving the human rights of sex workers within all sectors of the industry.“
(Gillian M Abel, 2014)
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@carolynharris24
@grumpyhooker
@DianaJohnsonMP
@GayeDalton
@ronniecowan
@jessphillips
@SarahChampionMP
The Sex Work Research Hub is a group over over 150 academics across a range of Universities & disciplines working on sex work & sexual exploitation. We do NOT support the Nordic Model & have drafted a response as to why here
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@FoxxyAngel
@AmsterdamMuseum
@AmsterdamMuseum
the information given in this exhibition is false, damaging & requires immediate rectification. We are a network of academics researching sex work & considerable peer reviewed data shows that decriminalisation reduces harm against sex workers.
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The Sex Work Research Hub stands in solidarity with sex workers around the world, who are fighting their their rights today and every day.
#InternationalSexWorkerRightsDay
Today is
#InternationalSexWorkersRightsDay
. Covid has devastated sex workers’ lives -- our incomes have disappeared, violence and police raids/arrests continue and more women have been pushed into destitution & homelessness.
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The independent review of the managed approach, commissioned by Leeds City Council in 2020, found that it has been “successful & should continue to evolve.” The research shows criminalising sex work only harms the most vulnerable. Closing the Leeds MA is not going to keep SW safe
We are deeply disappointed in the Council's decision regarding the Managed Approach. Our full statement can be read on our website. Please can we request anyone engaging in this debate to do so with respect.
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The July 2019 SWRH newsletter is now available here. Keep up to date with all emerging research, projects and events.
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The Sex Work Research Hub is a group over over 150 academics across a range of Universities & disciplines working on sex work & sexual exploitation. We do NOT support criminalising sex work. The research shows it harms sex workers. Read our statement here
Why is
@Momentum
on the side of pimps, traffickers & organised crime & not women? They sexually exploit women & girls & make huge profits. Sexual Exploitation is violence against women and we need to drive down demand, hold sex buyers accountable & support women exiting sex trade
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@SarahChampionMP
We are researchers & academics across a range of Universities and disciplines. The evidence is clear and widely available - strategies that target clients reproduce the harms created by the criminalisation of sex work, in particular, vulnerability to violence and HIV/STIs.
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“Nature of prostitution and sex work in England and Wales” report commissioned by the Home Office & produced by the University of Bristol on the current nature and commonness of prostitution and sex work in England and Wales has been published today
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Levy & Jakobsson’s article discusses Sweden’s
#sexwork
abolition policies
“The law has failed in its abolitionist ambition to decrease levels of prostitution...Furthermore, we argue that the law has resulted in increased dangers in some forms of sex work”
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The SexWork Research Hub congratulates the women&their lawyers who were successful in high court challenge-an important judgement that should apply to all current&former sex workers, none of whom should be criminalised in the first place
#decrim
@BeyondtheGaze
@NationalUglyMug
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So much quality research coming from
#postgrad
researchers on show at
@sexworkreshub
Postgrad conf
#SWRHPGR19
today hosted by
@Swansea_Law
@SwanseaUni
For example
@Max_Morris
sharing substantial major research data on incidental male
#sexwork
Really excited for
#SWRHPGR19
at
@SwanseaUni
on Friday. This will be my 4th Sex Work Research Hub Postgraduate Conference, but the 1st time I'm presenting: 'An Overview of the "Incidental Sex Work" Project' (my PhD). There is an amazing line-up of speakers
@CssSwan
@sexworkreshub
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According to research carried out by RightsInfo, 49% of British people surveyed are in favour of decriminalising brothel-keeping, an offence punishable by up to seven years in prison.
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Since criminalising the purchase of sex, Swedish sex workers have experienced “evictions, problems with immigration authorities, child custody and the police.”
(Jay Levy & Pye Jakobsson, 2014)
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Street sex workers “described how feeling unable to discuss their sex work in drug treatment groups undermined their engagement in the treatment process.” They reported disclosure of sex work resulted in stigma.
(Nikki Jeal, et al., 2017)
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We’re delighted to host our first SWRH Annual Postgraduate Research Conference! Details at
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The
#lauraleelecture
last week was absolutely wonderful. We didn’t tweet from this account to observe the
#UCUstrike
#digitalpicketline
, but all the speakers were so passionate & engaging. There is some amazing work & even more amazing people out there.
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“The criminalized or quasicriminalized nature of sex work means that violence that occurs in the context of sex work is not monitored by any formal bodies, with few to no legal protections afforded to sex workers”
American Journal of Public Health, 2014
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New '21 Questions' by
@corbeau_1863
with
@Whoretographer
Get to know Camille Melissa, her projects, and contribution to
#sexwork
Support her project via
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SWRH marks
#IDEVASW
by recommitting to accumulating evidence that expands knowledge about
#sexwork
-ers, the industries & its contexts. We stand in solidarity against ignorance & violence. Pls attend
@ProstitutesColl
@SexWorkHive
event
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@AnnMSinnott
The Sex Work Research Hub is a network of over 150 academics researching sex work & this is not what the research says. You are confusing decrim with legalisation & wilfully misrepresenting the facts to suit your agenda. The research shows decrim reduces harm against sex workers
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Yes support
@WhoresofYore
Let's get the book fully funded!!
#sexwork
This is a brilliant project. Please help it to get off the ground. Follow the link.
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“It is often assumed that violence against a sex worker means a sexual assault... but the most common type of attack reported by indoor workers was robbery, attempted robbery & attempting to force refunds after receiving a sexual service.” (Kinnell, 2013)
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Good luck to speakers at our
#sexwork
postgrad research conference at Leicester Uni, hosted by Teela Sanders!
#SWRHLeics17
@maggieoneill9
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“In this article, we expose the cracks in the so-called Nordic model, thereby discrediting the ‘persuasive’ nature of a unified Nordic approach to prostitution.”
Kingston, S. & Thomas, T. Crime Law Soc Change (2018).
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Research published in the Review of Economic Studies in 2018 found that when sex work was decriminalised in Rhode Island, sexual violence fell by 30% and female gonorrhoea incidence decreased by more than 40%.
(Scott Cunningham, et al, 2018 )
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@appgsextrade
This statement is not supported by peer reviewed research, as
@appgsextrade
well knows. The sex work research hub submitted considerable evidence to them and it was marginalised in their final report in favour of anecdotal stories & heresy.
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“Prostitution stigmatization [is] a fundamental cause of social inequality.”
- From ‘Prostitution Stigma & Its Effect on the Working Conditions, Personal Lives, & Health of Sex Workers’ (2018).
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#sexwork
-ers go to great lengths to give evidence to researchers. The researcher-participant relationship is built on trust & mutual goals of fact-finding & harm reduction.
@appgsextrade
disrespects the work and sacrifice made by both groups. Shame!
The flawed methodology behind Monday’s APPG inquiry into sex work and what it left out about ‘pop up brothels’ - by me.
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In 2015, Researchers at a research institute in the Netherlands found that when cities opened tippelzones, or areas where street sex workers can work legally, reports of rape & sexual abuse declined by as much as 40% in the first 2 yrs
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And that training for Universities for the necessary support for students in sex work is now needed.
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Northumbria University is hosting the Annual Sex Work Research Hub Postgraduate
#sexwork
Conference.
Submit your 300 word abstract by 31st January 2018 to: rosie.hodsdon
@northumbria
.ac.uk
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Grdat pic of the sex work research hub post grad conference delegates hosted at Swansea university! Thank you so much to Debbie Jones for hosting and to Dr Belinda BrooksGordon for the wonderful keynote.
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“Countries that have legalised some aspects of sex work have significantly lower HIV prevalence among sex workers than countries that criminalise all aspects of sex work, even after controlling for the level of economic development”
(Reeves, et al, 2017)
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“acknowledgement of sexual labour as work is a necessary precondition for recognising sex workers’ rights and reducing instances of physical and social disrespect.”
(Pitcher, 2014)
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“Together, the qualitative and quantitative evidence demonstrate the extensive harms associated with criminalisation of sex work, including laws and enforcement targeting the sale and purchase of sex, and activities relating to sex work organisation.”
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Launch online today! This report, produced by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine highlights the challenge that street based sex workers have in accessing services that work for them, resulting in poor health outcomes for this population
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