Understanding sex work
Sexual services are sold in diverse settings. In some countries there are large brothels or whole areas of cities given over to the sex industry. In other places, sex work occurs in hotels, bars, truck stops and on the streets.
The emergence of cheap communications technologies means that mobile phones and the Internet are used by sex workers to organise their working lives.
While most sex workers operate within structured sex industries and treat sex work as a job, others operate when the opportunity arises and see it as just one kind of income generating strategy among others.
The emergence of cheap communications technologies means that mobile phones and the Internet are used by sex workers to organise their working lives.
While most sex workers operate within structured sex industries and treat sex work as a job, others operate when the opportunity arises and see it as just one kind of income generating strategy among others.
Recommended reading
- Only rights can stop the wrongs: the smart person’s guide to HIV and sex work
- Global Network of Sex Work Projects, 2010
- In this publication by the Global Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP), the authors define an understanding of HIV and sex work and outline NSWP’s global agenda for change....
- Demystifying sex work and sex workers
- Wagadu, 2011
- Wagadu, an open access online feminist journal, produced a special issue on 'Demystifying sex work and sex workers.' With articles from activist scholars and sex workers in Australia, Brazil, Canada, ...
- Research for sex work
- Global Network of Sex Work Projects, 2010
- Research for Sex Work is an open access annual journal dedicated to the topic of research on sex work. It provides research results and a platform for the exchange of ideas, experiences, observations ...
- An exploratory study of the social contexts, practices and risks of men who sell sex in southern and eastern Africa
- P. Boyce;G. Isaacs / Oxfam, 2011
- This research presented explored the social contexts, life experiences, vulnerabilities and sexual risks experienced by men who sell sex in Southern and Eastern Africa, with a focus on five countries;...
- Pan-India survey of sex workers
- R. Sahni;V.K. Shankar / Sampada Gramin Mahila Sanstha, 2011
- This summary, published by the Center for Advocacy on Stigma and Marginalisation (CASAM), presents the preliminary results of the first pan-India survey on female sex workers. ...
