the first issue is to understand the diversity of sex-work (paid intercourse, phone sex, internet sex...)
The second thing that is often overlooked is male sex-work and how a great majority is from non-white men, another great percentage is transgender individuals.
I had students that worked as escorts. From these conversations I realised that often sex is not involved. Sometimes escortship evolves into sex.
If we want to look at sex-work rights as labor rights, then we need to work on it in order to establish sex-workers unions in order to get rights. Because there is a lot of exploitation and exploitation needs to stop.
Why is there this so much exploitation, according to radical feminist theorists this is the nature of sex-work. According to Marxist feminism it's because there are very little rights, most of this work is done in the dark.
I don't know how this form of activism takes place on the ground, but I know one case study is from the UK where the unions worked to provide english language courses to the sex-workers, the language is one way to help them acquire the material they need to protect themselves (condoms and STDs for example). But also to push them to lobby.
The second thing that is often overlooked is male sex-work and how a great majority is from non-white men, another great percentage is transgender individuals.
I had students that worked as escorts. From these conversations I realised that often sex is not involved. Sometimes escortship evolves into sex.
If we want to look at sex-work rights as labor rights, then we need to work on it in order to establish sex-workers unions in order to get rights. Because there is a lot of exploitation and exploitation needs to stop.
Why is there this so much exploitation, according to radical feminist theorists this is the nature of sex-work. According to Marxist feminism it's because there are very little rights, most of this work is done in the dark.
I don't know how this form of activism takes place on the ground, but I know one case study is from the UK where the unions worked to provide english language courses to the sex-workers, the language is one way to help them acquire the material they need to protect themselves (condoms and STDs for example). But also to push them to lobby.
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