Issues on Sex Workers
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... among sex workers, with clients as well as private partners (Davis ...concentrated sex worker population, and engaged in community outreach efforts (Davis, ...former sex workers, ...
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On our own terms : the working conditions of internet based sex workers in the UK
... internet-based sex workers in the UK operate in total isolation, because if they work collectively they are exposed to the laws relating to brothel management and controlling for gain (Pitcher and Wijers ...
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Profile of Cuban Women Involved in Sex Tourism—A Financial Perspective
... that sex tourism does financially benefit the local residents, mainly because of the 1980’s post revolution issues, which led to the downturn in the ...that, sex work is an impor- tant part of ...
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Reasons for non- use of condoms and self- efficacy among female sex workers: a qualitative study in Nepal
... An interview schedule was prepared outlining some topics to be discussed and some probing questions. This was first developed in English and translated into Nepali. Interview topics included knowledge and use of condoms, ...
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Drug use and risk behaviours among injecting drug users: a comparison between sex workers and non-sex workers in Sydney, Australia
... are sex workers and those who are not, are less striking than the ...among sex workers, and future research examining a larger sam- ple is ...than sex work status (such as frequency of ...
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Demography and sex work characteristics of female sex workers in India
... Data were collected between July 2003 and April 2004. At each study location, FSWs >15 years of age were contacted and recruited through facilitators for participation in this study. Written informed consent for ...
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Paying the Price: Sex Workers in Prison and the Reality of Stigma
... The research took place in the Together Women Project (TWP) centre at HMP New Hall. From October 2014 through February 2015. TWP occupies a unique and valuable position within the prison in that it is set apart from the ...
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Embracing Sex Work’s Complexity: Global Organizing by Sex Workers
... the sex industry, is a narrow ...structural issues such as global economic stratification which creates conditions whereby sex work is one a few options offered individuals in the global south [11] ...
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Can rights stop the wrongs? Exploring the connections between framings of sex workers’ rights and sexual and reproductive health
... of sex workers from a poor country into a global movement that had previously focused on legal and policy issues as they apply in Europe and North ...framing sex work as an occupation, “ when ...
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HIV Risk Behaviours among Injecting Drug Users in Vietnam: A Review
... Abstract: Background: There is high prevalence of HIV among Injecting Drug Users (IDUs) in Vietnam with a national level prevalence just under 20%. Both drug and sex related risk behaviors are widespread among ...
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The point of counting : mapping the internet based sex industry
... ethical issues for academics or others considering embarking on mapping is a key ...researching sex work and the extent to which research can bring benefits for researchers but not sex ...
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The serial murder of sex workers: The social construction of serial killers by sex worker advocacy groups.
... When our daughter vanished under suspicious circumstances November 20,1998 I was at a loss of what to do. The feeling of helplessness and frustration was overwhelming at times. To comprehend what happened I began my own ...
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HIV risk among young women who sell sex by whether they identify as sex workers: analysis of respondent‐driven sampling surveys, Zimbabwe, 2017
... their sex work, may have been less likely to accurately report number of clients than ...last sex were similar to other studies among FSW and underscores the need for women to have the option to use PrEP ...
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Vulnerability to HIV infection among sex worker and non-sex worker female injecting drug users in Dhaka, Bangladesh: evidence from the baseline survey of a cohort study
... In Bangladesh, HIV infection rates are still low [10] but is now on the rise in some populations. For example, in Central Bangladesh, 4.9% of male IDU tested HIV positive in 2005 [10]; in one neighborhood of the capital ...
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Women’s Theater and the Redefinitions of Public, Private, and Politics in North India
... In the performance that follows, one woman, Rasulan, wraps her long scarf as a turban to play the husband; Hasina Jan takes her cue as the wife; other tawaifs become children and members of the extended family; while ...
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Lives of Brothel Based Sex Workers in Khulna, Bangladesh
... Pakistan. Sex work in India is planned and done in secret (Dandona et ...selling sex, who are living and working in four concentrated areas of Lahore (WB, ...of sex-trade that exists as an open ...
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Imagining Others: Sex, Race, and Power in Transnational Sex Tourism
... to sex tourists was by thinking of myself as one of the ‘women’s libbers’ they so deride; I was comfortable and empowered by identifying with independence and feminism, which sometimes seemed to function as a ...
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Degree of Male Mobility as a Risk Factor for HIV in High In Migration Districts of Maharashtra, India
... having sex in their life and among those who had sex, the proportion was more among “more mobile” migrants as compared to “less mobile” migrants [p < ...female sex workers showed an ...
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SEXUAL ASSERTIVENESS AMONG FEMALE COMMERCIAL SEX WORKERS
... commercial sex workers 2) To associate the sexual assertiveness with their selected demographic ...Female Sex Workers, they were compromised themselves for not using condom during the sexual ...
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Amnesty International's Empty Promises: Decriminalization, Prostituted Women, and Sex Trafficking
... include sex-trafficking victims or prostituted children in the conversation, and instead consulting primarily with those who qualify as “sex workers” in Amnes- ty’s narrow ...“sex ...
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