#sexwork — Public Fediverse posts

A lot of the discussion about sexbots is about the users and manufacturers. But what do sex workers think about the tech?
This study asked them, and the answers are interesting. There is concern, but also many thoughts on authenticity.

Link: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13178-025-01146-z

#SexWork #Technology

«Pole History Article I: Jamilla Deville»

https://yaswork.substack.com/p/pole-history-article-i

First entry on YAS Work's series on the history of pole dance; in memory of the recently-deceased pole star and stripper Jamilla Deville.

❤️‍🔥

#SexWork #PoleDance #PoleHistory #YASWork #Memory #Article #August2026

«Pole History Article I: Jamilla Deville»

https://yaswork.substack.com/p/pole-history-article-i

First entry on YAS Work's series on the history of pole dance; in memory of the recently-deceased pole star and stripper Jamilla Deville.

❤️‍🔥

#SexWork #PoleDance #PoleHistory #YASWork #Memory #Article #August2026

The Law’s Mysterious Ways: A Systematic Review of the Effects of Sex Work Policies

Published: 11 September 2026
Benno Stevens & Stef Adriaenssens

This systematic review critically examines the literature to discuss the effects of sex work policies on various outcomes: safety, health, externalities, and the labour market.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13178-026-01413-7#Sec21
#sexwork #prostitution #law #policy #science

The Law’s Mysterious Ways: A Systematic Review of the Effects of Sex Work Policies

Published: 11 September 2026
Benno Stevens & Stef Adriaenssens

This systematic review critically examines the literature to discuss the effects of sex work policies on various outcomes: safety, health, externalities, and the labour market.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13178-026-01413-7#Sec21
#sexwork #prostitution #law #policy #science

The Law’s Mysterious Ways: A Systematic Review of the Effects of Sex Work Policies

Published: 11 September 2026
Benno Stevens & Stef Adriaenssens

This systematic review critically examines the literature to discuss the effects of sex work policies on various outcomes: safety, health, externalities, and the labour market.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13178-026-01413-7#Sec21
#sexwork #prostitution #law #policy #science

The Law’s Mysterious Ways: A Systematic Review of the Effects of Sex Work Policies

Published: 11 September 2026
Benno Stevens & Stef Adriaenssens

This systematic review critically examines the literature to discuss the effects of sex work policies on various outcomes: safety, health, externalities, and the labour market.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13178-026-01413-7#Sec21
#sexwork #prostitution #law #policy #science

«She Wore the Costume for a Month. We Wear It for Life»
A memorial for Gloria Steinem.

https://www.swopbehindbars.org/post/she-wore-the-costume-for-a-month-we-wear-it-for-life

— SWOP Behind Bars 🇺🇸

It's speaks volumes about how insidious sex worker stigma is than even after experiencing it firsthand, it's still so easy to turn it around and play its consequences as an intrinsic to sex work.
Just imagine the first movements for labour rights had taken the same interpretation of the hideous exploitation and working conditions that motivated them…

Anyway, great writeup.
Quoting their accompanying thread below.

[There are other issues with Steinem's work and practices, yes. Some pretty damning. They don't really change any of this beyond making the wording look somewhat overcharitable, though, so I'm sharing anyway. Those issues likely explain the untouched "why". The point, the "what", basically remains the same.]

> In 1963, Gloria Steinem put on a fake name, a fake age, a satin corset, and took a job as a Playboy Bunny.

> Then she took the ears off, went home, and spent the next sixty years telling the world what it means to work in the sex industry.

> She wrote about the wage theft. She wrote about the required gynecological exam and bosses who treated a cocktail waitress’s body as a company asset. All of that was labor journalism, some of it was good.

> But the women she worked beside did not get a byline.

> They got written about.

> Steinem called the assignment a disaster, “personally and professionally.” Editors stopped taking her seriously. Men wouldn’t stop asking about the costume. She was describing exactly what stigma does to a person’s career.

> She just never seemed to notice that she was describing our lives.

> There were two lessons available from the Playboy Club.

> One: sexualized labor is labor, and the people who do it deserve wages, safety, and the right to organize

> Two: the sex industry is degrading, and women in it are victims who cannot describe their own experience.

> Steinem chose the second one.

> When Amnesty International moved toward supporting full decriminalization, after consulting sex workers on four continents, she signed on with the coalition that tried to stop it, alongside a roster of Hollywood names who had never worked a stroll or a strip club or a cam site in their lives.

> She championed the “Equality Model,” the “Nordic Model,” the “third way,” whatever the branding was that year. It is the same policy every time: keep the worker’s clients and colleagues illegal, keep her landlord and her driver and her security person prosecutable, and call that liberation.

> Why this matters to us specifically-

> SWOP Behind Bars exists because of what happens when powerful feminists decide that the women on the bottom need saving more than they need rights.

> Our people are in cells right now because of laws written by legislators who quote Gloria Steinem.

> She spent a month in a costume and used it as a credential for six decades.
> The feminism that put “abortion” on a magazine cover and the feminism that put sex workers in jail were the same feminism, from the same woman, and the movement she leaves behind has to reckon with that.

> Rest in peace, Gloria. You fought hard. you Were right about a lot.

> But you were wrong about us.

#SexWork #SWOPBehindBars #Stigma #GloriaSteinem

Launch: «The Lancet Public Health Series on Advancing Health Equity for Sex Workers» webinar.

🗓 Tuesday, September 15th
💻 Online (Zoom) 🕐 13:00 UTC
✍️ Inscription: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/N717_mqZSXe9N5GkLQm_uw#/registration

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> The new Lancet Public Health Series on Advancing Health Equity for Sex Workers is a four-paper Series that represents the culmination of a long-term collaborative effort between academics, sex workers, and the Global Network of Sex Work Projects.

> We would like to invite you to the Series launch webinar on Tuesday 15th September in recognition of Sex Worker Pride Day.

— NSWP 🗺️

❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥💖

#SexWork #NSWP #Webinar #SWEvents #TheLancet #Launch #PublicHealth #2026W38 #SWPD #SexWorkerPrideDay

«Let Us Survive: An oral history of sex worker movements before and after FOSTA-SESTA»
Podcast by Hacking//Hustling collective.

https://hackinghustling.org/research-2/let-us-survive-oral-history-podcast/

(Page includes links to episodes and transcripts.)

> Let Us Survive, an oral history project by sex workers for everyone, covers a decade of American sex worker justice movements, roughly 2013 to 2023. It also gazes towards the future: of the industry, and of our labor organizing.  

> This podcast does something that US Congress didn’t do: we listen to sex worker voices. Voices along the Choice-Circumstance-Coercion spectrum. We explore how sex workers use technology to keep ourselves safe, to build community and culture, to not only survive but thrive. We listen to our fellow sex workers and survivors as we talk about our movements, how we’ve responded to FOSTA-SESTA and other policies. How we feel about federal raids on internet platforms like RentBoy and Backpage. How we feel about the Communications Decency Act and freedom of speech. What we believe reproductive justice activists and others can learn from sex worker organizing. Why we’re fighting for the decriminalization of sex work, and how that will only be the beginning of the changes we need to see. 

#SexWork #Podcast #HackingHustling #USA #SWPodcasts #OralHistory #History #ContemporaryHistory

Blue Film review – polarising sex worker drama is well-acted and deeply disturbing
By Cath Clarke

A camboy meets up with a convicted paedophile who turns out to be his old English teacher in Elliot Tuttle’s uncomfortable drama

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/sep/09/blue-film-review-polarising-sex-worker-drama-is-well-acted-and-deeply-disturbing

#Film #Dramafilms #Sexwork #Culture #Society #TheGuardian #CathClarke

As a sex worker, when I did in-person work, it wasn't just intercourse. I did a lot of reassuring of (cis) men about their size, listened to a lot of people's relationship problems, and sometimes people genuinely just wanted to cuddle, they were so desperate for physical(non-sexual)contact. Whether it's sexual in nature or not, most people are looking for connection-to be seen, to be heard, to be understood-even if it's only for a moment.

#sexwork #sexworkisrealwork #sexworkisart #connection

«Support your local sex workers»
SXHX's September update.

https://sxhxcollective.org/2026/09/03/support-your-local-sex-workers/

Urgent Mutual Aid calls:
> We’re in need of urgent funds to support THREE workers who are currently struggling to support themselves after assault, unintended pregnancy + loss of work, and emergency relocation respectively. If you have $5 -$20, or more, to spare please Venmo us @SxHxCollective or Cashapp us $SxHxCollective (and put a 🌹in the memo line). Everything helps.
> We also hope you’d consider donating to support a Cleveland sex worker facing thousands in legal fees after a recent arrest, her CashApp is: $daizshmoney

Additionally: Campaign demanding pardon for Keshia Golden and fundraiser.
https://www.change.org/p/pardon-keshia-golden
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-keshia-and-her-three-year-old-daughter

#SexWork #SXHX #SupportHose #USA #MutualAid #September2026

A library as a show piece?: Art patrons, a Florentine cortigiana onestà, and an in-house library study in “Arte”

Back in November 2024, I wrote about the anime adaptation of Arte, which is set in Renaissance-era Italy, noting the library scenes in four episodes, noting how in the episode “Courtesan”,  the protagonist, Arte, goes with her master, Leonardo, to the house of Veronica, a courtesan, and they visit her study. While there, she marvels at how impressive the library is, with Veronica saying she needs to entertain her gentleman callers with education, and she offers to let Arte borrow books from her collection, with the latter saying that while standing in her library she can’t view her with anything but respect, saying her respect is for how hard she works, not her profession. It is in this same place that Veronica counsels Arte on her love for her master, Leo, and where Arte realizes that while she will listen to Veronica, she can’t forgive how she treats her clients, as she learns what it truly means to be a prostitute.

In that same post, I also noted the brief library scene in the next episode (the fifth in the series), entitled “Inseparable Bond”, in which Arte goes to the library/study to get Veronica’s advice on speaking to a difficult client, and in the beginning of the eighth episode, entitled “A New Chapter”. In that episode, Arte and Veronica again talk in her study/library, with Veronica saying she couldn’t imagine Florence without Arte, and bidding her farewell as she prepares for her Venice trip. It is implied then that Darcia talks to Veronica afterward about reading (Arte teaches her to read), but not directly shown. In the final episode of the anime adaptation, entitled “Apprentice”, Leo visits Veronica in her study/library, and they talk about the art commission she is offering him, and she is willing to pay him more to make a good artwork (and to buy expensive materials), and she jokes that Arte “she prefers Venice over Florence,” something which likely gets to him, without a doubt. The manga is a bit different.

Veronica is introduced in the fourth chapter, but Arte and Leo do not meet her until the fifth chapter, when she is, again, called a cortigiana. At the time, cortigiana, meaning courtesan, some called them palace ladies, or donna di palazzo. Veronica would undoubtedly be a cortigiana onestà, which one scholar called “the high-­‐class figure of female influence who achieved an unparalleled level of emancipation in the profoundly patriarchal world of Renaissance Italy.” [1] In the fifth chapter, she is described as renting a house with the money she makes as a courtsean (what we would now call a sex worker) and like in the episode “Courtesan” I mentioned earlier, Arte is impressed, and after Veronica declares she has read every book there, Arte is even more in awe. And she even gets to borrow books from the study, with Arte saying she respects Veronica’s hard work.

It is thanks to that fascination she gets her first commission, just as she does in the anime. She admires how intellectual Veronica is and is undoubtedly appreciative when she tells her that the feelings she has for Leo are romantic. Again, this generally follows the anime, including when she sees the terrible conditions that lower-class courtesans work within, and what love can do to someone, a narrative which continues into chapter six. Veronica is the one that tells her she doesn’t “have time” for love. The library itself continues to be shown as somewhere where Veronica shines, above anything else, giving her an allure of someone learned. All the while she treats her clients in a way that Arte (and most) find disreputable. This continues in chapter seven, when she dreads having to give Veronica the painting. An interesting scene, not in the anime, is when Leo comes to meet with Veronica, who says she will pay for the portrait in time, not “like one of those cheap prostitutes.”

The scene goes so far that Leo says that Arte keeps “acting strange,” then she won’t be working at his workshop anymore, leading Veronica to advocate for Arte, saying it would be cruel to fire her, and saying she has taken a liking to Arte. This creates an interesting comparison between Arte, an apprentice barely earning anything, to Veronica, which he finds curious. Later on, Arte realizes she has to set things right, and realizes that Veronica hides “her struggles below her smiles.” She ends up giving her the painting, saying that while she can’t condone how Veronica treats her clients, she is doing it to have an independent life, and works hard in many ways. It is also revealed she is providing for the rest of her family as well!

Even so, Veronica acknowledges the job is “sinful” but she will continue to keep her smile until she dies. Even after all of this, she still wants to advise Arte on anything troubling her, as a friend, and Arte accepts this, as she knows it is important to have someone like her as a friend. In an interesting article I found, one scholar wrote that “during the Italian Renaissance, mythology and art contributed to the increasing popularity of the cortigiana, or courtesan.” That actually does fit with the series, with Veronica as an art patron! The latter is mentioned by Arte to Angelo in the next chapter. In the process of that discussion and others, she breaks through Angelo’s paternalistic attitude that girls need to be protected by men.

Some chapters later, Arte meets Veronica again in the library (at the end of chapter 10), [2] which continues in the next chapter, when she helps Arte negotiate with Ubertino. She reveals that he worked in the wool trade. What she tells Arte allows her to hold her own, teaching her everything from the beginning step by step, including proper posture, speech, and listening skills. She uses to this to appeal to him, especially using her lace art drawings, to pull him in. Veronica’s role in what some, historically, would call an “honored courtesan,” continues to be a major plot point in the story. In fact, Arte visits Veronica again in the beginning of the sixteenth chapter, when she gets a painting from Arte which she wants to keep herself, rather than giving it as a gift to someone. All the while, Veronica says she is expecting things from her, and she feels embarrassed to talk to her, like she is doing something “forbidden.”

It is her running into a Venetian noble afterward and his talking to Veronica, again in the study/library, is what leads Arte to her job in Venice. This is almost exactly what is portrayed in the anime. The same can be said of the eighteenth chapter, when Arte goes to Veronica again, this time asking about a dispute involving the daughter of Leo’s art master (Lusanna), in which she says that disputes over money involving widows is common. She is the one which gives the idea to Arte to approach a person with status and power: the Venetian noble (Mr. Yuri Falier) who wants her to travel to Venice to tutor his cousin, for a six-month period. Even Veronica is surprised that Arte is going so suddenly to Venice in the next chapter, saying it will be a “little lonely” in Florence without her. Again, it is implied that Dacia will go visit Veronica to get books to continue her study of reading and writing.

Unlike in the anime, at the end of the nineteenth chapter, Dacia does visit Veronica, and is very nervous, saying she is only there because she is Arte’s friend. Veronica convinces her to sit and chat down for a bit, but no more is shown, because the story moves onto the next chapter. Nor does it appear in any other chapter, sadly. In fact, there aren’t any library scenes going forward as the story moves to the Venetian arc and there aren’t any scenes in Florence!

In writing this post, I am reminded what Italian history scholar Margaret F. Rosenthal wrote back in November 2018 for Renaissance Quarterly, examining how one cortigiana onestà, also known an “intellectual courtsean,” named Veronica Franco, was restricted in her professional activities, or whether socal forces compelled or contained her “cultivation of a literary identity” in Venetian society, and the maneuvers she adopted when she “obtained entrance into an elite literary circle.” [3] Similarly, another webpage I found comes to mind: cortigiana, like Veronica, enjoyed a “glamorous lifestyle augmented by an education that enabled intellectual interactions in a secular rather than a religious domain.” This was even reflected in paintings like the strongly erotic “Portrait of a Woman known as The Courtesan” by Jacopo Palma il Vecchio in about 1520. [4]

Ultimately, whether the library is a showpiece for Veronica or not, it is also a symbol of how she is a thinking person, an intellectual in her own right. The study/library is a place she can be here own, a place she can be dominant, more than anyone else.

© 2024-2026 Burkely Hermann. All rights reserved.

Notes

[1] There’s even a Wikipedia page entitled “List of Italian Renaissance courtesans.”

[2] The aftermath of chapter 10, a feature describes her as “busty.”

[3] This article comes as no surprise considering that she wrote a book in 1992 entitled The Honest Courtesan about Veronica Franco, a courtesan in 16th-century Venice.

[4] Also see “Private Lives and Public Lies: Texts by Courtesans of the Italian Renaissance” by Fiora A. Bassanese.

hey ! it's #sexWorkerSaturday

the rules are simple :
- boost sex workers !
- tip sex workers !
- buy sex workers content !
- subscribe to sex workers pages !

#swerSaturday #sexWork

​:charmander_yay:​

ok i'm kinda back (i still will have many things to manage, maybe i'll move to another home soon ​:blob_fingerscrossed:​)

still figuring out who i lost while migrating my account,
If you are a sex worker and i don't follow you back, ping me, in dm if you want, i'm overwhelmed and might miss some of you 💜

#sexWork #sexWorker

#fascists #sexwork #anarchists

"What I Learned Debating Fascists on a Phone Sex Hotline

Years of talking dirty politics—at two dollars a minute—offered a window into the sexual psychology of the modern right.

(. . .)

Several months in, I created a line for a different special interest: 'Talk Politics With The Anarchist Bimbo.' Unlike sexy chess, the market for this niche found me immediately."

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/debate-me-daddy-confessions-of-a-phone-sex-hotline-operator

J'ai hâte de pouvoir retrouver une 2e cam 🥺🥵 ça me manque que vous puissiez pas voir ce qu'il se passe sous le bureau en POV quand je joue

#camgirl #hottie #sexwork #fansly #stripchat #suggestive #cosy #sundayfreepic

FBI no longer treating applicants’ experience with sex workers as automatic bar against hiring
By Associated Press

Bureau will still dismiss those engaged with sex workers within past 10 years, three or more times overall, or while in public safety capacity

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/29/fbi-apllicants-sex-workers

#FBI #Sexwork #Trumpadministration #USpolitics #USnews #TheGuardian #AssociatedPress

FBI no longer treating applicants’ experience with sex workers as automatic bar against hiring https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/29/fbi-apllicants-sex-workers #Fbi #SexWork #TrumpAdministration #UsPolitics #UsNews

«The Missing Anthology: Stories from Singapore's Sex Workers»

👤 Editors: Vanessa Ho, Raksha Mahtani, Nor
🗓 2025-03-09
🆔 ISBN: 978-981-94-1956-2
📔 Editorial: Faction Press 🛒 https://www.faction.press/shop/p/the-missing-anthology-stories-from-singapores-sex-workers

> Sex workers in Singapore — and most places around the world — tend to be dehumanised, glamourised or sensationalised by the public and media alike. Rarely do mainstream narratives centre sex workers’ voices and agency. The Missing Anthology presents fifteen bold new voices from sex workers, whose writings resist society’s simplistic assumptions about sex work. In these works, authors recount their lived experiences, share their struggles and triumphs, and imagine different futures for the sex industry.

> Born from an open call and writing workshops organised by Project X — the only non-profit organisation in Singapore that provides social, emotional, and health services to people in the sex industry — these pieces daringly experiment with form, genre, and perspective. In these pages, you’ll find two “chickens” discussing their dreams while blowing up a condom; pieces on the dynamics of domme-ing and servicing second-hand hearts; essays on the importance of activism and its obstacles; short fiction exploring fantasies of violent liberation; tender letters to loved ones and younger selves that reflect on their journeys and how far they’ve come.

> ‘The Missing Anthology’ re-centres sex workers’ voices from the margins, bringing them into the conversation about an industry often treated as illicit and taboo. By doing so, it aims to address issues of inequality, social and economic mobility, stigmatization, and safety that are fuelled by misconceptions about sex workers and their profession.

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Psssst… yeah, very much recommended. ^~

Nonfiction? Southeast Asia told by those in southeast Asia? Sex work told by sex workers?
Nonfiction talk on sex work in Southeast Asia by actual sex workers in Southeast Asia? Hell yeah~!

It's not often at all you find this combination. ;3

#SWBooks #SexWork #ProjectX #Singapore #Anthology #March2025 #Book #Books #Bookstodon

September 30th is International Pole Dance Day.

And YAS Work is starting a series of articles to highlight its art, history, and community. ❤️‍🔥

They'll also highlight events made for this day: https://yaswork.org/international-pole-dance-day-2026/

Let's not forget, pole dance as we know it only exists thanks to sex workers. ^~

I'll be sharing links or brief extracts from their articles on a thread (this is post # 0), but dubiously on time… :3
Do check or subscribe yourself if you don't want to miss any!

Their chosen tags: #SpicyWorkers #RespectPoleHistory #IntlPoleDay

(Tags as per my usual schemas)
#SexWork #PoleDance #IPDD2026 #YASWork #Memory #September30 #Sep30 #InternationalPoleDanceDay #IPDD

RE: https://mastodon.social/@thejapantimes/117149781622837997

So, “expert” panel on sex work made of cis white accommodated men whose only knowledge about sex work is from the times they hired a whore..? (And which they'll all deny, so nominally: none whatsoever)

And TALKING WITH SEX WORKERS themselves or their associations (such as SWASH) is not even CONSIDERED..?

Great to know that an “expert panel” is not required to have two working neurons between all its members. 😮‍💨🤦‍♀️

For real, they actually have the galls to claim something like…

> Panel members also stressed the importance of providing sex workers with protection and support tailored to their respective circumstances, as needed.

… once more, while not even looking for sex worker input… 🙄 “tailored to their circumstances” the hell it is…

… and yet to STOP MAKING THEM CRIMINALS is judged unacceptable, for what's basically no reason whatsoever:

> However, a majority of members called for maintaining the [anti-prostitution] provisions, noting that scrapping them could send the wrong message

Sure, let's also prohibit giving food or money to the unhoused because not doing so could send the wrong message that vagrancy is tolerated. Or let's forbid giving people mental health support, least somebody assumed lunacy is tolerated. And let's of course sanction sex education, heavens forbid somebody could think that an ectopic pregnancy might require an abortion!

I seriously have a hard time believing these people have though twice (or once) the nonsense they're sprouting. 🤦‍♀️

What's more, they're pushing at the same time towards actively making their situation worse:

> the panel agreed to increase the upper limit on the fines, according to the draft report.

“protection” and “support” s'yeah. For their own wallets if anything; for sex workers' actual safety, that's not even lip service.

Wish instead of taking their judgements out of their arses, they took their head out first. 😮‍💨

For real, is it asking so much to simply LISTEN TO SEX WORKERS when discussing laws about sex work..?

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Extra:

> Many members, meanwhile, took a cautious stance about expanding the definition of prostitution to include anal intercourse, arguing that public authorities should be careful about intervening in sexual activity, which is highly personal.

But if it's vaginal it's completely fine for authorities to intervene and ban it, right..?

What a bag of 💩.

And the draft itself is even worse… 😩

#SexWork #Japan #Criminalization #DecrimNow

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@yenndc/117131968640614439

In case one wants something more official-sounding than [the quoted minirant] — here's SIN's* statement.

* SIN is South Australia's peer-led sex worker network.

#SexWork #SINSA #Adelaide #Australia #SouthAustralia #Zonification #Discrimination #DecrimNow

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@yenndc/117112151247595017

One week left~

#SexWork #CallForPitches

«Scarlet Alliance's National Forum 2026»

🗓 17–19 November 2026
📍 Adelaide {details later} 🇦🇺
➕💻 Online attendance possible
✍️ Registration: https://form.jotform.com/Scarlet_Alliance/national-forum-registration
🎯 Sex workers only! 👠

> It's time to register for the Scarlet Alliance National Forum! It's open and free to all sex workers and it's a fantastic way to connect with peers and find out about the issues that are important to us.

#SANF #SexWork #Australia #ScarletAlliance #2026W47

Simon Levy murders: has anything changed in policing since Sarah Everard’s killing?
By Vikram Dodd Police and crime correspondent

Experts say the attackers’ behaviour, and the handling of their cases, have striking similarities

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/aug/07/simon-levy-murders-has-anything-changed-in-policing-since-sarah-everard-killing

#Crime #Metropolitanpolice #Rapeandsexualassault #Women #UKnews #Sexwork #London #Police #Violenceagainstwomenandgirls #Law #England #CrownProsecutionService #TheGuardian #VikramDoddPolice #crimecorrespondent

Simon Levy murders: has anything changed in policing since Sarah Everard’s killing? https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/aug/07/simon-levy-murders-has-anything-changed-in-policing-since-sarah-everard-killing #Crime #MetropolitanPolice #RapeAndSexualAssault #Women #UkNews #SexWork #London #Police #ViolenceAgainstWomenAndGirls #Law #England #CrownProsecutionService

RE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@dee/116668028139418851

Support trans sex workers.

#trans #sexWorker #sexwork #sexworkiswork #sexworkersrightsarehumanrights #transsexworker #transsexworkers

> En ce 2 juin 2026, journée internationale des TDS, nous revenons sur l'excellente vidéo de soutien que Docteur Tlaleng Mofokeng, rapporteuse spéciale de l'ONU sur le droit qu'a toute personne de jouir du meilleur état de santé physique et mentale possible. Elle est un soutien indéfectible de la lutte pour les droits des TDS et donc de la décriminalisation. Un immense merci à elle.

— #ProjectJasmine 🇫🇷 #France

Transcription:

> Mon nom est Dr. Tlaleng Mofokeng. Je suis la Rapporteuse spéciale des Nations Unies sur le droit qu'a toute personne de jouir du meilleur état de santé physique et mentale possible.

> Les droits des travailleuses du sexe sont des droits humains. Cela inclut le droit a la santé et, plus largement, le droit à l'autonomie corporelle ainsi que le droit à la sécurté et à la dignité.

> La décriminalisation est une condition préalable nécessaire à la réalisation effective de ces droits et de nombreux autres droits humains interdépendants.

> C'est une exigence de santé publique. La décriminalisation est soutenue par les organismes des Natios Unies, y compris ONUSIDA, l'OMS, le PNUD et de nombreux experts indépendants de l'ONU. La criminalisation est incompatible avec le cadre des droits humains. Elle réduit la capacité des travailleuses du sexe à négocier, elle limite leur accès aux services de santé et elle augmente en réalité leur exposition au VIH et à de nombreuses autre IST ainsi qu'aux violences basées sur le genre. Des témoignages présentés devant la Cour européenne des droits de l'homme ont montré que la criminalisation des clients a également entraîné ce qui suit: une diminution du nombre de clients entraînant une précarité économique, une perte de pouvoir de négociation, une exposition accrue aux violences basées sur le genre, une prise de risques accrue et un plus grand isolement et des conditions de travail plus dangereuses en raisos de déplacement et de la nécessité d'agir clandestinement. En 2024, la Cour européenne des droits de l'homme a explicitement reconnu que la criminalisation constitue une ingérence dans la vie privée et l'autonomie sexuelle des travailleuses du sexe et qu'elle a des conséquences concrètes sur leur santé et leur sécurité. La Cour a rappelé que la France doit suivre cette mesure, notamment au regard de son impact et la dernière évaluation menée en 2020 s'est concentrée uniquement sur la mise en œuvre de la loi et non sur ses effects. Et depuis 10 ans, la France n'a pas évalué l'impact de la criminalisation sur les clients, sur les personnes directament concernées.

> Aujourd'hui, les travailleuses du sexe se sont organisées pour proposer des politiques publiques mieux adaptées aux réalités vécues et plus conformes aux cadres des droits humains.

> La France ne peut plus ignorer ni la voix des travailleuses du sexe, ni celle de la Cour européenne des droits de l'homme.

> Et c'est mon vœu que les droits des travailleuses du sexe soient considérés et reconnus comme des droits humains.

#TravailDuSexe #ISWD #ISWD2026 #TDS #SexWork

> En cette journée internationale des TDS (#2Juin), le Parti Pirate rappelle une urgence : celle de protéger les travailleuses et travailleurs du sexe. La loi de 2016 dite « contre le système prostitutionnel » a échoué. Elle a précarisé, isolé et exposé aux violences.

> Face à cette marginalisation, nous portons un programme clair basé sur l'autonomie, la dignité et la sécurité des personnes concernées. Notre objectif ? Abolir les mesures répressives et instaurer un cadre légal et social protecteur. #PartiPirate #DroitsDesTDS

> 1. Reconnaissance et droits sociaux Nous voulons abroger la loi de 2016 et reconnaître le travail sexuel comme une activité économique légale. À la clé : un vrai statut professionnel avec accès à l'assurance maladie, la retraite, les congés et la parentalité.

> 2. Fin du faux proxénétisme et protection Il faut modifier le Code pénal. L’entraide entre TDS ou le soutien des proches doivent plus être criminalisés. En revanche, nous renforçons les sanctions contre la véritable exploitation et les abus économiques.

> 3. Sécurité et lieux autogérés Le droit de choisir/refuser ses clients et ses pratiques doit être garanti. Nous proposons d'autoriser les lieux dédiés autogérés : se regrouper collectivement pour travailler en sécurité, sans contrainte ni intermédiaire.

> 4. Accès aux soins et accompagnement Renforcement du suivi médico-social et un accompagnement réel pour les personnes souhaitant se reconvertir. La sécurité et les droits plutôt que la répression.

> Pour lire notre proposition: https://partipirate.org/program/index/droits_humains_a_l_ere_numerique___droits_des_travailleuses_et_des_travailleurs_du_sexe

— #PartiPirate 🇫🇷 #France

#TravailDuSexe #ISWD #ISWD2026 #TDS #SexWork

> Sex Workers Deserve Safety, Not Criminalisation!

👠 June 2nd manifesto ☂️
By the English Collective of Prostitutes. 🇬🇧

[⚠️ CW (white/3rd image), descriptions of multiple forms of abuse and violence (by police and others).]

#SexWork #ISWD #ECP #ISWD2026 #UK #GB #Manifesto

> Today, we're honouring the strength and resilience, and solidarity of sex workers across Africa and around the world. We celebrate the people who continue to support one another, speak up for their rights, build community, and keep pushing for a more just and inclusive world.

> This day is about us our voices, our stories, our lives, and our right to live free from violence, stigma, discrimination, and criminalization.

> Join us as we celebrate our community, our achievements, and the ongoing fight for dignity, justice, and decriminalization.

> #ISWD2026 #InternationalSexWorkersDay #RedUmbrella #AccessToJustice #DecriminalizationNow #SexWorkersRightsAreHumanRights #ASWAAlliance

> «International Sex Workers' Day», 2 June 2026. A day to honor courage, resistance, and the ongoing fight for justice…

— #ASWA Alliance 🌍 #Africa

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[Oops, somehow missed this one yesterday… 😅 Well, uploaded now. ^^]

#SexWork #ISWD #ISWD2026

> HAPPY IWD!!! Remember the roots of this day are in collective action, resistance, and solidarity. ⛓️‍💥

> THANK YOU to our community for supporting our PLeasure4Ever fundraiser. You showed up, showed out, and helped us raise $16K!!!

> Much more soon. For now, we are simply grateful.

— #BAWS 🇺🇸 #California #SanFrancisco

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> ❤️‍🔥On June 2, 1975, sex workers occupied Saint-Nizier Church in Lyon, France, protesting police harassment and criminalization. Today we honor their legacy and continue the fight for sex workers’ rights, safety, and dignity. #InternationalWhoresDay

— #Decrim305 🇺🇸 #Florida #Miami

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> This International Whores' Day, NJRUA and the Sex Workers Rights Coalition are demanding #RightsNotRescue and New Jersey lawmakers stop pushing a false trafficking narrative around World Cup games. https://njrua.org/2026/06/02/speak-up-on-international-whores-day-rights-not-rescue/ #RightsNotRescue #IWD2026 #IWD #FIFA #WorldCup2026

— #NJRUA 🇺🇸 #NewJersey

✍️ #Signatures: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfhM6vCUVQtntr-rtl_TQZYbpVLB3awYfEtTcmiSlms0Ca82Q/viewform

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#SexWork #ISWD #ISWD2026 #USA

> This International Whores’ Day, we’re launching FSC Speak Out: a new campaign from FSC and #EPAUnited centering the voices of adult creators themselves. #FSCSpeakOut

> To join us and learn more, visit: https://www.freespeechcoalition.com/speakout

— #FSC 🇺🇸

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> Happy International Whores' Day!

> At New Moon, everyday is International Whores' Day. <3

> To all of the sex worker activists, advocates, community stewards, artists, educators, wisdom keepers, historians, and cultural icons...we honor you and are thankful for your contributions to the world.

— #NewMoonNetwork 🇺🇸

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> I hope we stay healthy and well! I hope we continue to resist on all fronts. Mad love and much respect to sex workers today! International Sex Workers Day.

— #DesireeAlliance 🇺🇸

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> Today is International Whores’ Day, a day to reflect on and honor the sex worker rights movement. Across the US, new conversations about decriminalization are gaining traction.

> Decriminalization is about harm reduction, labor rights, and public health. This year’s legislative efforts show how the conversation is shifting (slowly, but importantly).

> In our latest blog, we break down the 2026 US policy landscape, what’s changed, and what still needs to happen.

> Thanks to #DecrimNY and Don't Strip Our Rights for contributing their thoughts to this post! https://www.woodhullfoundation.org/whats-happening-with-sex-work-decriminalization-in-2026/

— #WoodhullFreedomFoundation 🇺🇸

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#SexWork #ISWD #ISWD2026 #USA

> Today, KNESWO Feminist Initiative stands in solidarity with refugee, migrant, and internally displaced sex workers in all their diversity.

> Sex workers' rights are human rights. Dignity, safety, justice, and equality for all.

> #InternationalSexWorkersRightsDay #SexWorkersRightsAreHumanRights #KNESWO

— #KNESWO 🇰🇪 #Kenya

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> Today, on International Sex Workers’ Day, we honor the resilience, courage, and contributions of sex workers worldwide.

> Every person deserves dignity, safety, access to healthcare, and protection from violence, discrimination, and stigma. Sex workers’ rights are human rights.

> Together, let us amplify their voices, challenge harmful stereotypes, and advocate for policies that promote justice, inclusion, and equality for all.

> #InternationalSexWorkersDay2026 #EndTheStigma

— #AWAC 🇺🇬 #Uganda

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> On this International Sex Workers Day Sisonke_ZA expresses deep concern at the continued delays in advancing the decriminalisation of sex work into law.

> The criminalisation of sex work creates conditions that enable abuse, exploitation and discrimination. #HumanRights

— #Sisonke 🇿🇦 #SouthAfrica

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> #June2 we commemorate #InternationalSexWorkersDay to honour the courage, resilience and ongoing struggle of sex workers for dignity, human rights, health, safety and #Justice.

> When #SWs are safe, healthy and empowered, communities are stronger and inclusive for everyone.

— #AWA 🇿🇼 #Zimbabwe

> June 2 marks #InternationalSexWorkersDay, honoring lives lost to violence and stigma since 1975.Chisungo Trust remembers, resists, and continues the work.We fight for: ✔️ Decriminalization ✔️ Access to health ✔️ An end to violence against Male Sex Workers #SexWorkIsWork.

— #ChisungoTrust 🇿🇼

> 🚨 Today on International Sex Workers’ Day, Springs of Life Zimbabwe demands an end to the systemic violence and criminalization of sex workers. Why is their safety treated as optional? No one should live in fear of assault.We call on the government to urgently decriminalize sex work the ZRP to end arbitrary arrests, and healthcare systems to provide stigma-free care.

> "Sex work is work, and sex workers' rights are human rights." — Ms. Precious Msindo, Programmes Coordinator.

> #ISWD2026 #DecriminalizeSexWork #EndGBV #Zimbabwe

— #SoLZ 🇿🇼

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#SexWork #ISWD #ISWD2026 #Africa

«International Sex Workers’ Day: Access to Justice is a Right, Not a Privilege»

https://home.aswaalliance.org/2026/06/02/international-sex-workers-day-access-to-justice-is-a-right-not-a-privilege/

> Across Africa and the world, sex workers continue to face criminalisation, discrimination, violence, arbitrary arrests, extortion, detention, deportation, and exclusion from justice systems meant to protect all people equally.

> Criminalisation continues to deny sex workers access to labour protections, healthcare, legal protection, and basic human dignity.

> As we commemorate International Sex Workers’ Day 2026, the African Sex Workers Alliance (ASWA) joins the global movement in reaffirming that access to justice is not a privilege, it is a fundamental human right.

— #ASWA 🌍

> This International Sex Workers' Day, we stand together to demand an end to violence, discrimination, and stigma, and call for equal access to healthcare, legal support, and human rights protections for all sex workers.

> 🎥 Watch ASWA's Grace Nyarath, share why access to justice matters and how we can all support this movement.

> #InternationalSexWorkersDay #AccessToJustice #SexWorkersRightsAreHumanRights

[Also ASWA.]

#SexWork #ISWD #ISWD2026 #Africa

Report launch: «Sex Workers Navigating Gendered Poverty»

🗓 Monday 30th March
💻 Online 🕓 13:00–14:30 UTC
✍️ https://www.eventbrite.com/e/decrim-now-report-launch-sex-workers-navigating-gendered-poverty-tickets-1983265489467

> Next Monday 30th March, 2-3.30pm, we’ll be hosting an online event to discuss the findings of our autumn 2025 research report on why people go into sex work and remain in it, and what they’d like the government to do to support them.

> We’ll be joined for a panel discussion by colleagues from the English Collective of Prostitutes, National Ugly Mugs, BASIS Yorkshire and Amnesty International UK. We’re looking forward to discussing the current situation for sex workers’ rights in the UK, as well as how the cost of living crisis could be contributing to driving more people, especially women, into sex work.

— 🦋 https://bsky.app/profile/decrimnow.bsky.social/post/3mhsr5uoqfk2h

❤️‍🔥🤩❤️‍🔥

#SexWork #DecrimNow #UK #Precarity #Poverty #ECP #NUM #BASIS #AmnestyInternational #Online #2026W14

«Decriminalise Our Lives!»

International Women's Day: Shared Vision for Feminism.

Statement by ESWA, EuroNPUD, S.A.F.E. and Equinox Initiative.

[I cannot agree more with it. ❤️‍🔥😍 💯]

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‣ Criminalisation should NEVER be the first response to social and healthcare issues!

3 years ago, the 8 March Principles were launched - to provide a new model on how we see justice.

This International Women's Day, we're calling for care over carceralism, on issues including sex work, abortion, harm reduction, racial justice and poverty.

We advocate for a feminism that is rights-based, not punitive.

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‣ Rights not rescue: sex work is work!

Criminalisation, including the criminalisation of clients, is a massive driver of violence against sex workers.

It drives sex work underground, into more danger and stigma, creates barriers to healthcare, housing, and justice.

The 8 March Principles emphasise that consensual sexual activity between adults should never be a matter for the criminal legal system.

Decriminalisation of sex work prioritises the safety, human and labour rights of sex workers.

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‣ Criminalisation has never stopped abortions from happening. It only makes them less safe.

Under the 8 March Principles, reproductive and bodily autonomy are recognised as fundamental human rights.

We demand the removal of all punitive barriers to healthcare. When we treat abortion as a crime, we violate the right to health, privacy, and bodily autonomy. It is time for a legal system that trusts individuals to make decisions about their own bodies without the threat of a prison cell.

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‣ Support, don't punish! Harm reduction saves lives. Criminalisation destroys them.

The “War on Drugs” is a war on all humans. In practice, it disproportionately impacts women, caregivers and communities already marginalised.

The 8 March Principles advocate for a shift from criminalisation to harm reduction. Drug use is a public health issue, not a criminal one. By redirecting resources from policing to community-supported healthcare and safe consumption services, we can transform our societies for the better.

Lived experience is knowledge.

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‣ Carceralism vs. Racial Justice.

The legal system isn't “neutral”.
It disproportionately targets and penalises Black, Brown and racialised communities.

The 8 March Principles remind us that justice cannot be achieved through a system built on systemic bias. We must dismantle the structures of over-policing and invest in safety measures that are led by and for the communities most affected by state violence.

Anti-carceral feminism is essential to realising racial justice.

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‣ The Shared Vision - Our Demands:

• Decriminalise abortion, sex work, drug use, and activities associated with poverty.

• Redirect resources from the carceral state to community-led safety, health, and housing.

• Adopt the 8 March Principles globally to ensure that human rights, not moral policing, guide our legal systems.

• Center lived experience as expertise: policies are stronger when shaped by the people most affected. Amplify community voices, recognise peer support, and treat people with dignity and autonomy.

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‣ Poverty is not a crime!

In many places, being poor or homeless is effectively treated as a criminal offense.
Laws targeting activities like loitering or sleeping in public punish people for simply existing.

The 8 March Principles state that the criminal law should never be used to address social and economic exclusion.
We cannot jail our way out of poverty, and should never criminalise the means by which the poorest survive.

Resources belong in housing and healthcare, not policing and prisons.

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‣ Further reading:

🌐 S.A.F.E. https://supportingabortions.eu

🌐 EuroNPUD: https://euronpud.net
➕ SisterWUD: https://euronpud.net/project/mobilising-women-who-use-drugs-and-combating-gender-based-violence-gbv/

🌐 European Sex Workers' Rights Alliance: https://www.eswalliance.org

🌐 Equinox Initiative for Racial Justice: https://equinox-eu.com

🗄📄 8 March Principles: https://web.archive.org/web/20230311063011/https://icj2.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/8-MARCH-Principles-FINAL-printer-version-1-MARCH-2023.pdf

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A safer world is possible when we stop using the law to punish and start using it to protect.

When we remove the threat of criminalisation, we create space for autonomy, safety, and dignity for all.
It also makes space for well-being and pleasure: safer choices, informed decisions, and self-determination.

‣ LET'S BUILD A FEMINISM THAT LIBERATES EVERYONE, SPECIALLY THE MOST MARGINALISED.

#8M #M8 #IWD #InternationalWomensDay #Europe #ESWA #SAFE #EuroNPUD #EquinoxInitiative #SexWork #HarmReduction #SRHR #Abortion #DrugUse #Decrim #DecrimNow #Decriminalization #Feminisms

Mother Jones: Nevada Brothel Workers Are Unionizing to Protect Their Digital Rights . “According to three women with experience working at Sheri’s, the new contract made an unprecedented play for their intellectual property, one that they worry could be a bid to make money from their likenesses, including through AI, as well as potentially owning a piece of anything they might create while […]

«Virtual Community Town Hall» 🗓️ Tuesday 3 #February2026 🕑 14:00 EST 📍 N/A (online, Zoom) ✍️ Inscription. #Event #SexWork #Online #EPAUnited #NESWInfo #OSWC #BSWAC #FSC

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:6xu72u3tq2hmifiio2qjegdo/post/3mdimootax224

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RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:7p4pbes77hhseeifiozhobxl/post/detgcjlmzurho

Nouvelle Vie treats prostitution like a habit you can quit, not a system you’re trapped in. That confusion isn’t poetic—it’s dangerous.
#NouvelleVie #FilmCriticism #SexWork #Exploitation #FilmReview #FilmEssay
https://pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2025/12/17/the-pathology-of-survival-a-critical-analysis-of-richi-mbebeles-nouvelle-vie/

Should coins depict sexual acts? Some did.

The British Museum has a collection of coins or tokens that Romans may have used to obtain entry to brothels, to pay prostitutes, or—if they didn't speak Latin—to indicate what they would like. The exact purpose of these coins is unclear, but they depicted sex acts between men as well as between men and women.

Today, stigma affects prostitutes and the participants alike. In ancient Rome it was more socially acceptable, though views varied. Brothels were a staple in vacation cities like Pompeii and Herculaneum—both cities were "frozen" in time, which is helpful for archaeologists studying Roman culture. Brothels used this form of coinage about 2,000 years ago. These coins, or spintriae, were not in general circulation.

Most are brass, about 2½ centimeters or 1 inch in diameter with an image on one side and a Roman numeral from I to XVI on the other side.

#BritishMuseum #spintria #coin #sex #sexuality #prostitution #SexWork #hetero #lgbt

See also:

#CelesteGuap #OaklandCA #OPD #sexwork #hypocracy #ACAB

Flashback (7-13-2017)

"Damning New Report Shows How Oakland Cops Covered Up Their Sexual Exploitation of a Minor

Making matters worse, the report concludes, was 'the tone at the top.'

While Kamala Harris was bringing trumped-up child-exploitation charges against a classifieds website, a cadre of California cops was actually paying, pimping, and passing around an underage girl for sex and getting away with it. A damning new report explains the extent that the Oakland Police Department (OPD) was involved with the girl, who goes by the pseudonym Celeste Guap, and also details OPD leadership's myriad attempts to make the scandal disappear."

https://reason.com/2017/07/13/oakland-police-corruption-comes-out/

Find out more from https://sin.org.au/

#Adelaide #kaurnaYarta #southAus #decriminalization #sexWork #ISWRD #sexWorker