Posts Tagged ‘sexwork’

Policing the Sex Lives of Others

By Patricia • Mar 3rd, 2010 • Category: Blog

Here in Sex-Positive Land, we respect the rights of others to engage in whatever sort of sexual activities they choose as long as it doesn’t hurt anyone else (unless consensually!). However, the land of awesome, informed, sex positivity is not as far-reaching as we’d like. It can be easy to forget that our happy place [...]



When Politicians Create Disincentives for HIV Testing & Safer Sex Among Sexworkers

By Dr. Charlie Glickman • Feb 26th, 2010 • Category: Blog

via the Salt Lake Tribune
The Utah Senate committee unanimously passed SB155, a law which will allow third-degree felony charges to be brought against sexworkers who have tested positive for HIV. Usually, sexwork is prosecuted as a misdemeanor in Utah, but there is a mechanism to amp it up to a felony if the defendant is [...]



SFPD Chief Want to Shame Sexwork Clients

By Dr. Charlie Glickman • Jan 13th, 2010 • Category: Blog

SFPD Chief Gascón

San Francisco Police Chief George Gascón is reported to have suggested putting mugshots of men arrested for paying for sex on a web site to shame them in order to discourage other men from doing the same. The use of shame to try to control sexual behavior has a long history and no [...]



a survey for and about sexworkers

By Dr. Charlie Glickman • Mar 30th, 2009 • Category: Blog

A lot of the research that I’ve seen about sexwork and sexworkers has been pretty anti-sexwork. People become sexworkers for a lot of different reasons and they do it in lots of different ways, and unfortunately, what we hear about most of the time is the most visible segment of sexworkers, who may or may [...]