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	AM - Students turn to sex industry work to pay for degrees
		She prepared a report on student participation in the sex industry.
		SARAH LANTZ: It looked at 40 students working in the Melbourne sex industry and it explored their lives and it was a qualitative study and a longitudinal study, so it looked at their lives over a four-year period.
		Domestic students, you know, were working their way through the sex industry for financial reasons and the international students for the same reasons, except for the fact that they actually had to come up with a lot more money, given the fact that they had to pay upfront fees and so forth.
	www.abc.net.au /am/content/2006/s1785727.htm (911 words)

	Sex Industry
		Modern industrial societies share several important traits, such as growing service industries, deep economic restructuring, technological development, uninhibited commercialism and consumerism, as well as the dizzying cultural transformations that encourage alternative lifestyles and that have spurred social movements such as feminism and rights movements for racial, ethnic, and sexual minorities.
		Commercial sex is offered by juveniles and adults, all of whom are marginalized and exploited in various ways and to various degrees as a result of their age, social class, race, ethnicity, and gender.
		The growth of the sex industry or pornoculture in the Silver State has a negative impact where it condones exploitation, oppression, crime, and continued stereotyping and stigmatization of women.
	www.unlv.edu /centers/cdclv/healthnv/sexindustry.html (4471 words)

	SWOP :: Sex Industry facts
		Sex workers have health & safety rights and responsibility - these are supported by NSW Workcover Authority and Department of Health.
		Condoms, Glyde dams, water based lube and gloves are used in the sex industry to protect the client and worker.
		Sex workers can insist on safe sex practices and if the client refuses, the worker may not provide the service.
	www.swop.org.au /clients/facts.html (311 words)

	Making Sex Work Safe: Chapter 2
		Sex workers are not entitled to industrial rights such as sick pay and accident compensation nore protection from exploitation, and workplaces are not subject to health and safety regulations.
		Sex workers' willingness to obey these rules depends on matters such as whether they are treated well at the clinics, whether or not the records are confidential and whether registering actually results in less harassment.
		Sex workers who already face stigma and persecution are often faced with a difficult decision about continuing to work in the sex industry.
	www.nswp.org /safety/msws/msws-02.html (5503 words)

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		Her mission is to de-glamorize the global, billion dollar sex industry, which she believes is not a victimless crime.
		A former technical writer and corporate communications manager in the high-tech industry for over fifteen years, Anne Bissell is the first author/activist and sex industry survivor to bring out the connections between childhood sexual exploitation, pornography, domestic prostitution and international trafficking.
		The founder of Sex Industry Survivors Anonymous (SISA), and the executive director of the nonprofit Voices for Justice, Bissell is also the author of the autobiographical book, Memoirs of a Sex Industry Survivor.
	www.annebissell.com (941 words)

	The Magazine of the ILO: WORLD OF WORK No. 26 - The economics of sex - Public information
		The sex sector in the four countries is estimated to account for anywhere from 2 to 14 per cent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), and the revenues it generates are crucial to the livelihoods and earnings potential of millions of workers beyond the prostitutes themselves.
		Sex work is usually better paid than most of the options available to young, often uneducated women, in spite of the stigma and danger attached to the work.
		In nearly all segments of the sex trade, that expectation was fulfilled, and remittances from the women working in the sex industry provide many rural families with a relatively high standard of living.
	www.ilo.org /public/english/bureau/inf/magazine/26/sex.htm (3378 words)

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		Agents assisting people who wish to migrate for the purposes of working in the sex industries may take advantage of the illegality of sex work and migration and they may be able to exert an undue amount of power and control over those seeking economic security through work in other countries.
		The attitudes, laws and practices that condemn sex workers to live on the margins of society, are, therefore, the fundamental problem.
		Sex workers in Mumbai are controlled by madams, pimps and moneylenders and because of this, reaching sex workers with HIV prevention is a major challenge.28 A study in Surat found that HIV prevalence among sex workers had increased from 17% in 1992 to 43% in 2000.
	www.lycos.com /info/sex-industry--countries.html (366 words)

	Sex Trafficking Is Contemporary Slavery
		In essence, sex trafficking is the sexual exploitation of a human being for the purpose of another's financial gain or sexual gratification.
		In sex trafficking the merchandise is transported, sometimes from region to region, usually South to North, sometimes from block to block.
		Sex trafficking is rooted in, and is inextricable from, other practices of sexual exploitation: sex tourism, marriage markets, pornography, and prostitution.
	cpcabrisbane.org /Kasama/1997/V11n2/SexTrafficking.htm (904 words)

	BBC - Cambridgeshire Features - The sex industry and prostitution comes under the spotlight in the BBC Cambridgeshire ...
		The aim of the investigation is to find the extent of the sex industry in Cambridge and to listen to the stories of the people involved in it - all we're saying is, it exists.
		People in the industry have told me the police are often compliant when it comes to the sex industry.
		The sex industry is a range of jobs that should be considered in the same way as other jobs women do.
	www.bbc.co.uk /cambridgeshire/features/2004/04/camb_sex_industry.shtml (1381 words)

	Thailand and the Sex Industry \|GlobalHangoverGuide® (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The sex industry can, in fact, be viewed as an variant of polygamy, as both ptovide men access to the sexual services of more than one woman.
		Those who do not re-enter the sex industry are still subject to labour exploitation - either through providing services that satisfacrily fulfil the phantasies that guided their new "husband"eastwaed or by entering the labour force in low-skill, low-wage employment.
		Many activists argue that sex workers need to be protected under the labour law to provide them with recourse in the case of abuse, to ensure they recieve at least a minimum wge and are guaranteed fair working hours.
	www.hangoverguide.com /over/factbook/th_sexindustry.html (2287 words)

	ALU Archive: Sex Work in Taiwan
		The most visible sign of the sex industry is not in formal sex establishments, instead the trade is transacted in hotels, massage parlours, teahouses, barber shops, and saunas in every corner of Taipei city.
		Most first sex encounters happen under the age of 20, and one night stands are increasingly common, but sex is still a taboo subject and sex education is limited to sexual physiology.
		We also discovered how society stigmatised and discriminated against sex workers, even the objectification analysis is a way to discredit the ability of sex workers to make decision over their own lives, and at the same time, to further our understanding of sex workers.
	www.amrc.org.hk /Arch/3310.htm (1707 words)

	Network for Good :: Pandemic: Facing AIDS :: The Sex Industry
		In many countries, the sex industry has been a means of spreading the disease among the workers, their clients and, ultimately, those clients' spouses and newborn children.
		Its flourishing sex industry, increased injection drug use, vast migration, illiteracy, and socio-economic disparity are all important factors facilitating the spread of HIV.
		The demand for children for sex has increased dramatically in recent years, partly due to the belief that children are less susceptible to sexually transmitted diseases, and that sex with children is safer.
	www.networkforgood.org /topics/health/pandemic/sex_industry.aspx (1316 words)

	TED Case Study: Myanamar Sex Trade
		Many sex tourists are from the West, but a great number of Japanese and Chinese are also drawn by the low prices, easy access to prostitutes of either sex at any age and the lack of enforcement of laws.
		Sex tourism in Asia is fed both by the use of local women and children and by international trafficking in persons.
		For example, in Thailand, the recent government efforts to curb the sex industry can be viewed, in part, as facilitated by the growth of female tourists, new social movements against women and child prostitutes, and of the increasing awareness of AIDS.
	www.american.edu /projects/mandala/TED/myansex.htm (4771 words)

	Thailand to consider legalising its famous sex industry - www.smh.com.au
		Thailand is considering legalising its famous sex industry, but human rights advocates, go-go bar owners and many of the prostitutes themselves believe the move will do nothing but line the government's pockets.
		The origins of the thriving industry are hotly debated, but many believe it was born at the turn of the century with the influx of mainly single male Chinese immigrants.
		Chantawipa said she is fighting for better conditions for sex workers, including access to healthcare, standard employee rights and an end to the abuse and harassment that faces prostitutes.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/11/02/1067708065224.html?from=storyrhs (812 words)

	Sex Slavery: International Steps are Needed to Curb What Has Become A Global Scourge - Global Policy Forum - Social and ...
		Roughly 200,000 girls in Thailand - the world capital of the underage sex industry - are pressed to cater to professional sex tours that operate openly for Americans, Europeans and Japanese, according to the International Organization for Migration.
		Young girls are coerced into or sold for sex work from Nepal and Bangladesh to India, from Bangladesh and Burma to Pakistan and from Pakistan and India to the Middle East.
		Embarrassing to the idea of human moral progress, the present global sex trade is reminiscent of the first global trade in flesh - that for African slaves.
	www.globalpolicy.org /socecon/inequal/0710sexslavery.htm (675 words)

	Press Release (ILO/98/31): Sex Industry Assuming Massive Proportions in Southeast Asia - Public information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The authors of the ILO report emphasize that the scrutiny of the sex-sector of these four countries does not suggest that they have a unique prostitution problem or that their social, moral or economic values are especially aberrant.
		If we include the owners, managers, pimps and other employees of the sex establishments, the related entertainment industry and some segments of the tourism industry, the number of workers earning a living directly or indirectly from prostitution would be several millions.
		The ILO warns that "the health dimensions of the sex sector are too serious and urgent to ignore." While awareness of the HIV/AIDS threat is high, state agencies may still keep their distance from the sex sector.
	www.ilo.org /public/english/bureau/inf/pr/1998/31.htm (2379 words)

	Girl, 6, embodies Cambodia's sex industry - CNN.com
		Passed from man to man, often drugged to make her compliant, Srey was a commodity at the heart of a massive, multimillion-dollar sex industry in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
		An estimated 30 percent of the sex workers in Phnom Penh are under the age of 18, according to the United Nations.
		To help sex workers transition to a more normal life, Somaly is hoping to expand her refuge in the countryside outside Phnom Penh, where former sex workers attend school and learn skills like weaving and sewing.
	www.cnn.com /2007/WORLD/asiapcf/01/23/sex.workers/index.html (854 words)

	THE SEX INDUSTRY
		Many women earn all or part of their living as sex workers or in other areas of the sex industry, including pornography, nude dancing, telephone sex, and computer pornography.
		Contrary to the ugly stereotypes of prostitutes as fallen women, dope addicts, or disease carriers,* sex workers are women at work--supporting children as single parents, trying to save money to go to school, surviving economically in a job market that underpays women at every economic level.
		Some feminists have been critical of prostitutes for reinforcing sex-role stereotypes by allowing themselves to be sex objects or for participating in the sex industry, which many think contributes to violence against women.
	www.feminist.com /resources/ourbodies/viol_sexind.html (657 words)

	Sex industry's crossed line on phone sex - Media Release
		'The industry claims that thousands of jobs will be lost due to a reduction in calls to these services.
		'To believe the industry's claims, you have to believe that customer demand is so fragile that it will collapse once these simple safeguards are introduced.
		That is why the legislation authorises the Government to take suitable action in regard to international sex lines - for example, controls on advertising of 0011 sex lines in Australia.
	www.dcita.gov.au /Article/0,,0_4-2_4008-4_13986,00.html (229 words)

	Amazon.com: Sex Work: Writings by Women in the Sex Industry: Books: Frederique Delacoste,Priscilla Alexander (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The arguments go on to explain that feminist condemnation of the sex industry is actually bad for women as a whole.
		More significantly, support of the anti-prostitution stigmata leads to many policy and regulatory difficulties for women, not only in the criminilization of sex work, but the rights which are withheld from the workers in other areas of the law (granting of visas, custody rights, health care, etc.).
		As an activist for sex workers' rights and the decriminalization of prostitution I highly recommend this book for everyone who is interested in a realistic, unbiased portrayal of...
	www.amazon.com /Sex-Work-Writings-Women-Industry/dp/1573440426 (1956 words)

	SOUTH-EAST ASIA: Sex Industry Thrives, But States Look Away
		Researchers' estimates show that the sex industry's contribution to the GDP of the four countries range from more than 2 percent in Indonesia to 14 percent in Thailand -- the high-end estimates for those countries.
		She added that figures relating to the sex industry "are not in labour statistics or in development plans" though they impact heavily on human rights, the work force, crime, and health issues like the transmission of HIV/AIDS.
		The extensive reach and deep economic and social roots of the commercial sex industry make it imperative that governments do not simply close their eyes to it, especially now that unemployment figures are rising in South-east Asia.
	www.aegis.com /news/ips/1998/IP980803.html (1247 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In its obdurate refusal to make crucial distinction, this approach further equates trafficking into the sex industry with voluntary migration since it erases the distinction between forced and voluntary labour within the sex trade.
		It contends that, since all prostitution is sexual violence against women, advocates and government simply seek to normalize a certain brand of sexual exploitation through the sex industry by seeking to outlaw forced prostitution.
		The UK sex industry is worth an estimated £1bn and there are many thousands of women working as prostitutes on Britain's streets or in brothels across the country.
	www.lycos.com /info/sex-industry--women.html (573 words)

	MoXie Magazine --Sex Workers in South Africa
		The sex industry has been looked down upon by society for centuries, and is now seen as a big contributor to the high HIV/AIDS rate in South Africa.
		Though sex workers are often blamed for spreading HIV and STDs, one may be surprised how rapidly awareness about these diseases is circulating through the Cape Town sex industry.
		Turning down men who offer her extra money for "clean sex," or sex without a condom, has become a habit and one she refuses to break no matter how slow the night may be.
	www.moxiemag.com /moxie/articles/work/sexworkers.html (1172 words)

	Third World Women's Health: Prostitution and Sex Tourism
		In sex tourism, an American man may pay a sex travel agency for a trip to Thailand which includes airfare, hotel, food, and women for sex.
		Its history of supporting sex tourism in Thailand makes it unlikely that current policy critically considers the effects of sex tourism on women in children.
		New industry must replace the current sex industry to enact real change for women and children in prostitution.
	haneydaw.myweb.uga.edu /twwh/traf.html (1209 words)

	LabourForceFilter: Sex-industry participation rate? \| Ask MetaFilter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Porpoise, I don't think the question was about what percentage of sex workers were male, but what percentage of the labor force is in the sex industry.
		Sex tourism plays an incredible important role in both of these economies and the lack of capabilities has led an increasing number of women into what may as well be called the export-oriented sex sector.
		I read once that 50% of the people in Bangkok were involved in the sex trade at those peripheral levels but of course that doesn't mean that half the population strips or has sex for money, just that if you closed down those establishements, half the population would be out of a job.
	ask.metafilter.com /38099/LabourForceFilter-Sexindustry-participation-rate (1248 words)

	AEGiS-AP: Asia Sex Industry Hurts AIDS Efforts
		While sex tourism involving foreigners is highly visible, it is small compared to the region's much larger domestic sex industry, it said.
		In Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand, the sex industry accounts for an estimated 2 percent to 14 percent of the gross domestic product, it said.
		Even in industrialized Japan, its earnings amount to an estimated 1 percent to 3 percent of the GDP, WHO said.
	www.aegis.com /news/ap/2001/AP010805.html (692 words)

	Queensland sex industry slams escort ruling \| The Nation \| The Australian
		QUEENSLAND's sex industry is reeling after the state's crime watchdog yesterday ruled against decriminalising call-out "escort" services.
		But the Crime and Misconduct Commission has found an expansion of the industry could lead to more organsied crime and sex trafficking, while also endangering the health and safety of legal prostitutes.
		Chairman Robert Needham said the CMC believed decriminalisation would pose too many risks to both sex workers and the legal industry, and would not necessarily decreasing the size of the illegal industry.
	www.theaustralian.news.com.au /story/0,20867,20530387-2702,00.html (292 words)

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