Struggling, Forgotten, and Under Pressure: A Scoping Review of
This paper provides a scoping review of literature on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sex workers, published between December 2019 and December 2022. Six databases were systematically searched, identifying 1009 citations; 63 studies were included in the review. ... Issues with research with sex workers during the pandemic include ...
Avoidance and empowerment: How do sex workers navigate stigma?
Although Ma and Loke (2019) and others have found that most sex workers experience adverse effects because of sex work stigma, there is a limited amount of research on the techniques sex workers use to limit the internalisation of that stigma, the focus of this paper. The literature on how other marginalised populations manage stigma is more ...
Sex workers health: time to act
This pressure comes on the heels of sex workers' income, health, and safety having been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. ... Submit your paper; Open access; Author resources; Publishing excellence; ... OpenGrey, and Social Care Online, as well as the Global Network of Sex Work Projects and the Sex Work Research Hub for studies published ...
Associations between sex work laws and sex workers' health: A
We searched bibliographic databases between 1 January 1990 and 9 May 2018 for qualitative and quantitative research involving sex workers of all genders and terms relating to legislation, police, and health. ... This paper focuses on sex workers' perceptions and experiences with the police, to provide baseline data to assess the impact of ...
Sex workers as peer researchers
Abstract. Best practice in sex work research advocates for a 'nothing about us without us' methodology. This study employed sex workers as peer researchers to assist in evaluating the sexual health outcomes and well-being of sex workers in Western Australia. All eight peer researchers were invited to reflect on their experiences as peer ...
Sex Worker and Proud: A Phenomenological Study of Consensual Sex
Research Experience. Thesis: Sex Worker and Proud: A Phenomenology Study into the Lives of Consensual Sex Workers in Nevada University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV, Oct 2015-Dec 2017 Advisor: Dr. Carissa D'Aniello. Research Assistant University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV, Interactive Measurement Lab, Aug. 2013-Aug. 2015.
A qualitative study into female sex workers' experience of stigma in
Background Hong Kong has gained a good reputation for its quality public health care services. However, there is a growing recognition that social stigma is a potential obstacle when female sex workers (FSWs) access health care services. There are a lack of studies focusing on how FSWs experience and cope with stigma when accessing health care services in Hong Kong. Objective This study aims ...
Sex Work Research, Ethics Review Processes, and Institutional
Inspired by work others have done in this regard, members of our research team have been working with a local sex worker rights group in our city and with some US-based groups to develop processes for sex workers/groups to screen researchers, to screen the studies to which researchers regularly attempt to recruit them, and to instruct ...
Developing an occupational perspective of women involved in sex work: A
The aim of this discussion paper is to outline our reflections and offer some arguments on the challenges and opportunities of addressing sex work from an occupational perspective. We focus on three issues: the push and pull factors of sex work, a critical consideration of the common assumption that health can be promoted through occupation ...
Community-Based Strategies for Harm Reduction Among Sex Workers in
Drawing on our research executed between 2009 and 2016 as well as existing literature on sex work in India, this paper provides a reflective commentary on the community-based responses that address the issues of stigma associated with sex work, advocate for the decriminalization of sex work, and empower the sex workers to gain access to health ...
Ensuring Human Rights of Sex Workers
Human Rights of Sex Workers. Prostitutes or sex workers are subjected to much social discrimination, bear the brunt of social stigma, and face obstacles and impediments in day-to-day life. As a result, they or even their children, are not able to live a life with decency and dignity. The hon'ble Supreme Court, in Francis Coralie Mullin v.
Experiences of gender-based violence among female sex workers, men who
Background Female sex workers, MSM, and transgender women—collectively referred to as key populations (KPs)—are disproportionately affected by gender-based violence (GBV) and HIV, yet little is known about the violence they face, its gender-based origins, and responses to GBV. The purpose of this study was to understand the nature and consequences of GBV experienced, to inform HIV policies ...
Gaps in health research related to sex work: an analysis of Canadian
In this paper we detail a profile of sex work-related health research funding in Canada. ... Research on indoor sex work and virtual sex work, along with the complexity of actors involved is largely missing (see Benoit et al., Citation 2019; Bungay & Guta, Citation 2017; Koken et al., Citation 2014 for exceptions). Additionally, although the ...
PDF Sex Work and The Law in India: Perspectives, Voices and Narratives From
The selling of sex and sexual services for compensation is legal in India, but the purchase of and solicitation for sex work is illegal.43 Therefore, sex work as a form of employment is not illegal in and of itself, but rather numerous aspects of the trade are curtailed (e.g. public solicitation of clients for sex).
Stigma and sex work from the perspective of female sex workers ...
While the stigma surrounding sex work is both well documented and easily recognised, few studies examine stigma in this context from the perspective of the sex workers themselves. In this article we report on a study using a modified grounded theory approach to analyse a series of semi-structured interviews with 49 female sex workers in Hong ...
Being Left Behind: Phenomenological Experience and Narratives of Sex
The sex workers and their stories and struggles during these challenging times are still undocumented and unheard. In this regard, using phenomenological analysis, this paper studies the narratives and experiences of sex workers in the rural Philippines, specifically in Central Luzon.
Stigma and sex work from the perspective of female sex workers in Hong
Introduction. The sex industry in Hong Kong is an inseparable part of the city's social, cultural and economic environment. It has recently been estimated that there are 200,000 female sex workers (FSWs) operating in a population of approximately 6.8 million (Hong Kong Advisory Council on AIDS 2006), while the total number of people associated with the industry is likely to be far greater.
PDF Rights and Issues of People involved in Prostitution and Sex Work in
Lack of education is a major inhibitor among both sex workers and their children. Studies have shown that women in sex work have considerably lower levels of education than surrounding populations. In a baseline survey of the community is Sangli, 2. "Of Veshyas, Vamps, Whores and Women," volume 1, issue 3. SANGRAM found that less than 2% of ...
A qualitative study into female sex workers' experience of stigma in
A local NGO for sex workers estimated the number of sex workers might range from 20,000 to 100,000 in 2001 . Since there has been a dramatic increase in the number of sex workers crossing the border from mainland China into Hong Kong [ 16 - 18 ], the current number of sex workers may exceed what was estimated around two decades ago.
Social Sciences
There are three perspectives on the demand for commercial sex, namely the buyer of sex, the intermediary profiteer of sex, and the cultural attitudes of society towards this type of sex (Hughes 2004). This paper identifies and explains the growing social violence against these three factors as well as the cultural attitudes related to ...
Sex Workers Research Papers
The 1975 French sex workers' strike is widely acknowledged by sex workers' movement activists as the spark that ignited the contemporary European sex workers' rights movement. Yet, significant scholarly research has judged the strike a failure because it neither achieved law reform, nor was it able to sustain a lasting presence.
Typologies of Sex Work Practice and Associations with the HIV Risk
Women engaged in sex work (WESW) who use drugs are a key population in Kazakhstan's HIV epidemic. Global research suggests susceptibility to HIV varies by sex work environment. This study aims to identify evidence-based typologies of WESW and examine their associations with HIV risk. We surveyed 400 …
Institutional Ethics Challenges to Sex Work Researchers: Committees
A meta-analysis and systematic review of international research on sex work clearly showed that the criminalisation of sex work is linked to poor physical, sexual, and mental health outcomes for sex workers (Platt et al., 2018). The criminalisation of sex work is harmful for sex workers' health and well-being.
Same-sex marriage recognition helps countries attract and retain highly
Washington State University researchers found that European countries that recognized same-sex marriages kept more of their highly skilled workers from emigrating to the U.S. ... AEA Papers and ...
Research Reach: Papers, Posters, and Presentations
Our faculty, staff, and students actively disseminate their work through diverse channels, reaching a wide array of audiences. They publish in prestigious academic journals, industry publications, and popular media outlets, spanning both print and digital formats. Their research findings and ...
Promoting your work to the materials community: editor top tips for
Promoting your work to the materials community: editor top tips for writing an effective research paper ... Promoting your work to the materials community: editor top tips for writing an effective research paper V. Augustyn, S. A. Cussen, S. Kundu, F. E. Osterloh and M. M. Unterlass, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2024, 12, 17753 ...
[2201.11903] Chain-of-Thought Prompting Elicits Reasoning in Large
View a PDF of the paper titled Chain-of-Thought Prompting Elicits Reasoning in Large Language Models, by Jason Wei and 8 other authors. View PDF ... Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and ...
Here's what a Sam Altman-backed basic income experiment found
Universal basic income and guaranteed income programs: How they work 06:41. A recent study on basic income, backed by OpenAI founder Sam Altman, shows that giving low-income people guaranteed ...
Weak-to-strong generalization
To kickstart more research in this area, We are releasing open source code (opens in a new window) to make it easy to get started with weak-to-strong generalization experiments today. We are launching a $10 million grants program for graduate students, academics, and other researchers to work on superhuman AI alignment broadly. We're ...
Recognising the Human Rights of Female Sex Workers in India: Moving
This article sets out a women's human rights approach to the legal regulation of sex work developed through an analysis of feminist perspectives, international human rights standards—in particular, the approach of the Committee on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 1979 (CEDAW)—and the voices of female sex workers within India.
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This paper provides a scoping review of literature on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sex workers, published between December 2019 and December 2022. Six databases were systematically searched, identifying 1009 citations; 63 studies were included in the review. ... Issues with research with sex workers during the pandemic include ...
Although Ma and Loke (2019) and others have found that most sex workers experience adverse effects because of sex work stigma, there is a limited amount of research on the techniques sex workers use to limit the internalisation of that stigma, the focus of this paper. The literature on how other marginalised populations manage stigma is more ...
This pressure comes on the heels of sex workers' income, health, and safety having been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. ... Submit your paper; Open access; Author resources; Publishing excellence; ... OpenGrey, and Social Care Online, as well as the Global Network of Sex Work Projects and the Sex Work Research Hub for studies published ...
We searched bibliographic databases between 1 January 1990 and 9 May 2018 for qualitative and quantitative research involving sex workers of all genders and terms relating to legislation, police, and health. ... This paper focuses on sex workers' perceptions and experiences with the police, to provide baseline data to assess the impact of ...
Abstract. Best practice in sex work research advocates for a 'nothing about us without us' methodology. This study employed sex workers as peer researchers to assist in evaluating the sexual health outcomes and well-being of sex workers in Western Australia. All eight peer researchers were invited to reflect on their experiences as peer ...
Research Experience. Thesis: Sex Worker and Proud: A Phenomenology Study into the Lives of Consensual Sex Workers in Nevada University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV, Oct 2015-Dec 2017 Advisor: Dr. Carissa D'Aniello. Research Assistant University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV, Interactive Measurement Lab, Aug. 2013-Aug. 2015.
Background Hong Kong has gained a good reputation for its quality public health care services. However, there is a growing recognition that social stigma is a potential obstacle when female sex workers (FSWs) access health care services. There are a lack of studies focusing on how FSWs experience and cope with stigma when accessing health care services in Hong Kong. Objective This study aims ...
Inspired by work others have done in this regard, members of our research team have been working with a local sex worker rights group in our city and with some US-based groups to develop processes for sex workers/groups to screen researchers, to screen the studies to which researchers regularly attempt to recruit them, and to instruct ...
The aim of this discussion paper is to outline our reflections and offer some arguments on the challenges and opportunities of addressing sex work from an occupational perspective. We focus on three issues: the push and pull factors of sex work, a critical consideration of the common assumption that health can be promoted through occupation ...
Drawing on our research executed between 2009 and 2016 as well as existing literature on sex work in India, this paper provides a reflective commentary on the community-based responses that address the issues of stigma associated with sex work, advocate for the decriminalization of sex work, and empower the sex workers to gain access to health ...
Human Rights of Sex Workers. Prostitutes or sex workers are subjected to much social discrimination, bear the brunt of social stigma, and face obstacles and impediments in day-to-day life. As a result, they or even their children, are not able to live a life with decency and dignity. The hon'ble Supreme Court, in Francis Coralie Mullin v.
Background Female sex workers, MSM, and transgender women—collectively referred to as key populations (KPs)—are disproportionately affected by gender-based violence (GBV) and HIV, yet little is known about the violence they face, its gender-based origins, and responses to GBV. The purpose of this study was to understand the nature and consequences of GBV experienced, to inform HIV policies ...
In this paper we detail a profile of sex work-related health research funding in Canada. ... Research on indoor sex work and virtual sex work, along with the complexity of actors involved is largely missing (see Benoit et al., Citation 2019; Bungay & Guta, Citation 2017; Koken et al., Citation 2014 for exceptions). Additionally, although the ...
The selling of sex and sexual services for compensation is legal in India, but the purchase of and solicitation for sex work is illegal.43 Therefore, sex work as a form of employment is not illegal in and of itself, but rather numerous aspects of the trade are curtailed (e.g. public solicitation of clients for sex).
While the stigma surrounding sex work is both well documented and easily recognised, few studies examine stigma in this context from the perspective of the sex workers themselves. In this article we report on a study using a modified grounded theory approach to analyse a series of semi-structured interviews with 49 female sex workers in Hong ...
The sex workers and their stories and struggles during these challenging times are still undocumented and unheard. In this regard, using phenomenological analysis, this paper studies the narratives and experiences of sex workers in the rural Philippines, specifically in Central Luzon.
Introduction. The sex industry in Hong Kong is an inseparable part of the city's social, cultural and economic environment. It has recently been estimated that there are 200,000 female sex workers (FSWs) operating in a population of approximately 6.8 million (Hong Kong Advisory Council on AIDS 2006), while the total number of people associated with the industry is likely to be far greater.
Lack of education is a major inhibitor among both sex workers and their children. Studies have shown that women in sex work have considerably lower levels of education than surrounding populations. In a baseline survey of the community is Sangli, 2. "Of Veshyas, Vamps, Whores and Women," volume 1, issue 3. SANGRAM found that less than 2% of ...
A local NGO for sex workers estimated the number of sex workers might range from 20,000 to 100,000 in 2001 . Since there has been a dramatic increase in the number of sex workers crossing the border from mainland China into Hong Kong [ 16 - 18 ], the current number of sex workers may exceed what was estimated around two decades ago.
There are three perspectives on the demand for commercial sex, namely the buyer of sex, the intermediary profiteer of sex, and the cultural attitudes of society towards this type of sex (Hughes 2004). This paper identifies and explains the growing social violence against these three factors as well as the cultural attitudes related to ...
The 1975 French sex workers' strike is widely acknowledged by sex workers' movement activists as the spark that ignited the contemporary European sex workers' rights movement. Yet, significant scholarly research has judged the strike a failure because it neither achieved law reform, nor was it able to sustain a lasting presence.
Women engaged in sex work (WESW) who use drugs are a key population in Kazakhstan's HIV epidemic. Global research suggests susceptibility to HIV varies by sex work environment. This study aims to identify evidence-based typologies of WESW and examine their associations with HIV risk. We surveyed 400 …
A meta-analysis and systematic review of international research on sex work clearly showed that the criminalisation of sex work is linked to poor physical, sexual, and mental health outcomes for sex workers (Platt et al., 2018). The criminalisation of sex work is harmful for sex workers' health and well-being.
Washington State University researchers found that European countries that recognized same-sex marriages kept more of their highly skilled workers from emigrating to the U.S. ... AEA Papers and ...
Our faculty, staff, and students actively disseminate their work through diverse channels, reaching a wide array of audiences. They publish in prestigious academic journals, industry publications, and popular media outlets, spanning both print and digital formats. Their research findings and ...
Promoting your work to the materials community: editor top tips for writing an effective research paper ... Promoting your work to the materials community: editor top tips for writing an effective research paper V. Augustyn, S. A. Cussen, S. Kundu, F. E. Osterloh and M. M. Unterlass, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2024, 12, 17753 ...
View a PDF of the paper titled Chain-of-Thought Prompting Elicits Reasoning in Large Language Models, by Jason Wei and 8 other authors. View PDF ... Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and ...
Universal basic income and guaranteed income programs: How they work 06:41. A recent study on basic income, backed by OpenAI founder Sam Altman, shows that giving low-income people guaranteed ...
To kickstart more research in this area, We are releasing open source code (opens in a new window) to make it easy to get started with weak-to-strong generalization experiments today. We are launching a $10 million grants program for graduate students, academics, and other researchers to work on superhuman AI alignment broadly. We're ...
This article sets out a women's human rights approach to the legal regulation of sex work developed through an analysis of feminist perspectives, international human rights standards—in particular, the approach of the Committee on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 1979 (CEDAW)—and the voices of female sex workers within India.