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Topic: Sex worker

	The 100% Condom Use Policy: A sex worker rights perspective
		Sex workers must be identified, registered and regularly sent to government STI clinics where their registration card is stamped.
		Sex workers who are unable to read the letter from the government are vulnerable to it being used as another instrument of control by brothel management.
		Sex workers usually still have to buy condoms, either at reasonable prices from condom social marketing companies or at inflated prices from brothel keepers and local traders in direct contrast to workers with rights whose employers are required to supply health and safety equipment from their profits.
	www.nswp.org /safety/100percent.html (1069 words)

	Sex Worker Rights, Abolitionism, and the Possibilities for a Rights-based Approach to Trafficking (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In the case of the NSWP, this vision is of a world in which sex workers are free from discrimination, persecution and violence; where sex work is considered to be a legitimate and even honourable occupation; and where sex workers' health and human rights are held to be as important as anyone else's.
		While sex workers are the prime object of concern to anti-trafficking activists, they are not the architects of the anti-trafficking agendas.
		As a result, sex workers are left trying to fit their demands within a framework that was never designed to accommodate them: a framework that is increasingly setting the terms of public perceptions, debate, and policy.
	www.isiswomen.org /pub/wia/wia1-05/trafficking2.html (3211 words)

	Concurring Opinions: When Is A Sex Worker A Victim?
		While some sex workers are surely victims, others have chosen this work - admittedly under many of the stresses that propel other individuals towards sub-optimal life choices.
		I'm not ashamed of being a sex worker, what I'm ashamed for are the people that assume I'm too stupid to make a choice and am therefore a victim.
		A sex worker may be a sex therapist rather than a "prostitute".
	www.concurringopinions.com /archives/2006/05/when_is_a_sex_w.html (779 words)

	Commercial Sex Information Service: Sex Workers' Rights Groups
		The Sex Workers' Alliance of Toronto (SWAT) was founded April 6, 1992 by eight people who got together and discussed the current events that effected their work places, and brainstormed ideas on how to improve the situation.
		The Sex Workers Alliance of Vancouver (SWAV) was founded in 1994 in response to a "Shame the Johns" campaign in the Mount Pleasant neighbourthood.
		Sex Workers Project — Mission is to advocate for sex workers, former sex workers, and those who are profiled or at risk for engaging in sex work, including victims of human trafficking, within a context of harm reduction and human rights.
	www.walnet.org /csis/groups (2141 words)

	USATODAY.com - Vegas sex workers demand rights, respect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Organizers said the conference, sponsored by the Sex Workers Outreach Project-USA, was the largest meeting of academics, advocates and prostitutes in nearly 10 years.
		Alexander said sex workers' claims of rape and violence too often are ignored by police, and some departments use scant evidence, like carrying condoms, as cause for arrests.
		But she said one of the most pressing threats to sex workers were anti-human trafficking laws passed on the federal and state level that can be interpreted as applying to strippers, dancers and escorts.
	www.usatoday.com /news/offbeat/2006-07-14-sexworkers-rally_x.htm?csp=34 (744 words)

	Sex Worker - Shahnaj Begum - People's Voices - People's Health Movement PHM
		Who is a sex worker herself gave a painful description, which brought her to the sex profession.
		She is now working with the floating sex workers to improve their situation through the assistance of CARE-Bangladesh.
		She recommends that sex workers should have equal human rights and opportunities for fulfilling their basic human needs.
	phmovement.org /voices/begum2.html (250 words)

	SWIMW--International Sex Workers Rights' Organizations
		For some reason the sex workers' rights movement is often characterized in the US as being supported by the corporate sex industry (since when do corporations support employees' rights to organize labor unions?).
		Sex workers' rights is an international movement with a history of assistance and support for sex workers everywhere.
		Sex workers themselves describe their concerns and needs, rather than organizations conducting surveys for the purpose of acquiring funding.
	www.swimw.org /orgs.html (928 words)

	Scoop: International Sex Worker Rights Day
		Sex workers interviewed spoke of high levels of contact with the police and arrests as often as five times per month.
		One sex worker described the continuous threat of arrests as a major stressor for her and spoke of feeling "hunted" by the police.
		SWEAT's research showed that police are verbally and physically abusing sex workers, including police pepper spraying sex workers after arrest when they are already in the back of the police van.
	www.scoop.co.nz /stories/WO0603/S00007.htm (781 words)

	Desiree Alliance: Welcome! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Desiree Alliance* is a coalition of sex workers, health professionals, social scientists, professional sex educators, and their supporting networks working together for an improved understanding of the sex industry and its human, social and political impacts.
		Often marginalized, sex workers and their allies face many ideological obstacles to our aims, and these are often fuelled by misinformation.
		Desiree Alliance is a coalition of sex workers, health professionals, social scientists, professional sex educators and their supporting networks.
	www.desireealliance.org (1148 words)

	Sex worker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The term is sometimes used as a synonym for prostitution, but most scholars define "sex workers" to include individuals who perform sexual or sexually oriented activities in the sex industry, such as strippers, pornography actors and actresses, and telephone sex workers (Weitzer 2000).
		In most countries, even those where sex work is legal, sex workers are stigmatized and marginalized, which can prevent sex workers from seeking legal redress for discrimination (e.g., racial discrimination by a strip club owner), non-payment by a client, assault, or rape.
		Also, the legalization of sex work, would allow it to be carried out in better organized circumstances (e.g., legal brothels), where regulations (e.g., requiring condom use and regular health checkups for sex workers) could reduce the transmission of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sex_worker (879 words)

	Green Left - Issues: Sex worker support chopped (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		PERTH — Following the campaign against the WA Prostitution Control Bill 2003, the fight for sex workers' rights faces a new challenge, with the forced closure of both SWOPWA (the street sex worker outreach project) and the sex-worker organisation Phoenix.
		The bill was vehemently and militantly objected to by sex-worker advocates, organisations and individual workers.
		This win has been short lived, however, as all services to sex workers have since been closed, in a vindictive move by the government which indicates what their full plans may have been if the bill had been passed.
	www.greenleft.org.au /back/2003/542/542p7b.htm (656 words)

	About the International Sex Worker Foundation
		Sex Workers come from a rich and diverse cultural heritage, and have historically contributed much to the literary and artistic world.
		Our Foundation is dedicated to the collection, display and permanent preservation of the art, culture and information by and about sex workers past and present, from around the world.
		Our goal is to educate and create an atmosphere which encourages the artistic growth of current, ex and transitioning sex workers, and stimulates the academic research necessary to positively impact the lives of men and women in sex work.
	www.iswface.org /about.html (519 words)

	About the Sex Worker Outreach Project (SWOP) ACT
		The Sex Worker Outreach Project (SWOP) is a project of the AIDS Action Council of the ACT and is funded by ACT Dept of Health.
		To assess and address the special needs of workers in the sex industry whose ethnic and cultural backgrounds impede their access to sex worker related services.
		To strive to eradicate sex worker stereotypes in the populat consciousness and to replace these myths with the true experiences of sex workers.
	www.aidsaction.org.au /swop/about.php (195 words)

	Suburban Sex Worker
		I looked up at her with no makeup, bed head and sleep in her eyes and that moment was far more profound and steeped in intimacy than most any sexual encounter than I've ever experienced.
		I started in the sex trade when I was just 17 working as a dancer (stripper) and quit until I was 26.
		Throughout my career in the Sex for Sale industry I've been a stripper, done phone sex, been a prostitute and a pimp; "Madame" for those of you in polite company.
	suburbansexworker.blogspot.com (2151 words)

	About the Sex Workers Project
		The SWP offers legal services to individual sex workers, and also goes on outreach to find sex workers where they are most comfortable and advise them of their legal rights.
		The SWP conducts trainings for legal issues that are important to sex workers, including the issues around trafficking in persons; on the legal rights of sex workers (especially related to violence and to police interaction); and rights of outreach workers, many of whom we have found are being harassed by the police.
		This work is critical in bringing to light human rights abuses suffered by sex workers, and puts a human face on this misunderstood and marginalized population.
	www.sexworkersproject.org /info (441 words)

	CODE:RED Sex Worker
		CODE:RED is a project which investigates and discusses aspects of prostitution and sex work as a specific form of parallel economy.
		It used real and virtual spaces and takes the form of an open dialog between artists, sex workers and the public.
		World Congress of Sex Workers and New Parasitism was a part of the CODE:RED, Sex Worker project prepared for 49.
	www.parasite-pogacar.si /code-red-sex.htm (125 words)

	PPP 8/19: Sex worker demands rights and recognition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A member of the Sex Workers Union of Toul Kork, Dina Chan, gave this speech to the First National Conference on Gender and Development in Cambodia, held in Phnom Penh Sep 7-9.
		I also run a union to unite sex workers to fight for basic rights and for freedom.
		Legalize sex work so we can have power to protect ourselves and use condoms 100% of the time.
	www.phnompenhpost.com /TXT/comments/sexs.htm (1663 words)

	BBC NEWS \| South Asia \| India's new pioneers: Sex worker activist
		Sometimes they are sold into the sex trade by their own family members or even by their lovers.
		Senior officers are co-operative and they realise the difficult situation these women are in, but many of the constables tend to blame local problems on them as men come to the area to drink and visit brothels.
		Every Saturday, we meet with sex worker activists to find out about how their week has gone, about their children's development.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/south_asia/4337652.stm (474 words)

	Sex Worker Outreach Project (SWOP) ACT - Canberra, Australian Capital Territory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		SWOP is a peer-based community organisation whose primary purpose is HIV/AIDS and STI prevention, education and referral for sex workers in the ACT.
		SWOP promotes sex industry work as a valid occupational choice, and encourages recognition of personal and occupational rights.
		Copyright Sex Worker Outreach Project (SWOP) ACT, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, and respective authors.
	www.aidsaction.org.au /swop/index.php (102 words)

	Sex Worker Outreach (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		SWOP provides sex workers and escort agencies with information on occupational health and safety standards, legislation as well as updates on relevant industry news and issues.
		SWOP also provides information to the sex industry on protection against sexually transmitted infections and blood borne viruses such as HIV and hepatitis B and C
		SWOP provides workshops to meet the needs of the sex industry, which include a variety of topics such as blood borne viruses, STIs, legislation, sex worker practices and advice and budgeting.
	www.ntahc.org.au /swop.htm (330 words)

	ALU Archive: A Sex Worker from China in Macau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		ALU Archive: A Sex Worker from China in Macau
		Then I arrived here last year to be a sex worker because I could not find a job in Changsha.
		I would not be a sex worker in Zhuhai because the police are very hostile, unlike Macau.
	www.amrc.org.hk /Arch/3305.htm (386 words)

	Sex Worker Links
		ISWFACE (International Sex Workers Foundation for Art Culture and Education)
		Sex Workers Alliance of Vancouver (SWAV) (Vancouver, BC)
		Prostitution in Canada: The Invisible Menace or the Menace of Invisibility?
	www.womanabuseprevention.com /html/sex_worker_links.html (69 words)

	The Sex Workers Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Created in December 2001, the Sex Workers Project is the first program in New York City and in the country to focus on the provision of legal services, legal training, documentation, and policy advocacy for sex workers.
		Using a harm reduction and human rights model, the SWP protects the rights and safety of sex workers who by choice, circumstance, or coercion remain in the industry.
		A fact sheet on issues that sex workers should consider in paying their taxes.
	www.sexworkersproject.org (168 words)

	SWIMW (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Sex Worker's International Media Watch is an organization created for the purpose of observing and responding to the media whenever sex workers' concerns are represented therein.
		We also provide resources to ensure open and effective communication between sex workers and the media.
		If you are a sex worker who deals with the media or a media representative who wishes to find sex work resources and experts, please email Jo Weldon.
	www.swimw.org (109 words)

	Resourcing health & Education in the Sex Industry (RhED)
		You may have heard that Sexually Transmissible Infections (STIs) and HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, are on the increase in Victoria.
		Whilst it is a well known fact that sex workers are among the best in the community for looking after their sexual health, these infections have the capacity to affect your health, as well as your capacity to earn.
		This is an overview of the symptoms, treatment and prevention of Hepatitis - the inflammation of the liver, usually caused by a virus.
	www.sexworker.org.au /healthinfo (440 words)

	ISWFACE index
		We are planning to add audio and video as well as much more information text for sex workers, students, law enforcement agents and others.
		Our organization is run by sex workers* [current and retired] primarily for sex workers,* but it is also for anyone who wants to learn more about us, including students, researchers, academics, the media, law enforcement agencies, policy makers and of course, art lovers.
		If you have an upcoming event related to sex work or sex workers that you'd like us to post, send us the information and we will post it on the Calendar of Events.
	www.iswface.org (878 words)

	Sex Worker Forum - A Bravenet.com Forum
		Here you can post your thoughts and opinions of sex work around the world.
		Sex Professionals of Canada is seeking volunteers to help with their fundraiser!
		Aug 15, 06 - 9:57 PM Bad date who mutilated sex worker only gets 4 year jail sentence.
	pub27.bravenet.com /forum/2274247688 (668 words)

	SF Station: Sex Worker Art Festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Lately a growing number are working in contemporary media, film and video, and performing in solo, ensemble theater and in burlesque revues..
		Sex worker art festivals and performances, spanning the globe, chronicle contemporary sexual mores with a vision that penetrates our hypocrisies.
		Copyright 2006 SF Station: A City Guide by Boulevards.
	www.sfstation.com /sex-worker-art-festival-e6040 (123 words)

	BAYSWAN: Prostitution-Exotic Dancing-Adult Film
		towards sex workers as well as activists, students and faculty.
		BAYSWAN, Bay Area Sex Worker Advocacy Network, provides information for sex workers and others about diverse sex industries.
		BAYSWAN organizes to improve working conditions, increase safety and services for workers, and to eliminate discrimination on behalf of individuals working within both legal and criminalized adult entertainment industries.
	www.bayswan.org (150 words)

	$PREAD MAGAZINE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Every few issues, $pread publishes answers to a question that our readers respond to.
		Every sex worker has a Dos and Don'ts list - in 250 words or less,tell us, What won't you do for money?
		Curated by Audacia Ray in Spring, 2006, $pread's "Sex Worker Visions" exhibit featured art by sex workers and about sex work.
	www.spreadmagazine.org (238 words)

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