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The Law’s Mysterious Ways: A Systematic Review of the Effects of Sex Work Policies
Published: 11 September 2026
Benno Stevens & Stef AdriaenssensThis 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
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The Law’s Mysterious Ways: A Systematic Review of the Effects of Sex Work Policies
Published: 11 September 2026
Benno Stevens & Stef AdriaenssensThis 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
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The Law’s Mysterious Ways: A Systematic Review of the Effects of Sex Work Policies
Published: 11 September 2026
Benno Stevens & Stef AdriaenssensThis 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
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The Law’s Mysterious Ways: A Systematic Review of the Effects of Sex Work Policies
Published: 11 September 2026
Benno Stevens & Stef AdriaenssensThis 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
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«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.
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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-
> 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
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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-
> 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
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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-
> 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
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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-
> 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
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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-
> 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
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ESWA's March newsletter is published~ 💖 📰 Check it out at their website! 👈 🧵 Or look through the thread below~ (0/14) CC: @[email protected] #ESWAMonthly #March2026 #SexWork #Europe #ESWA #Newsletter
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ESWA's March newsletter is published~! 💖
📰 Check it out at: https://www.eswalliance.org/your_eswa_monthly_-_march_new_key_updates_on_sex_workers_rights
🧵 Or look through the thread below~ (0/10)
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International Sex Workers' Rights Day.
👥 STAR 🇲🇰
Er……… I'll get into transcribing and translating this another day… 😅💦💦💦
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International Sex Workers' Rights Day.
Back in Europe again~
🇬🇧 UK 👥 NUM
🇳🇱 Netherlands 👥 SMAP
🇪🇺 CEECA 👥 SWANAnd I gotta remark again on the Turkish one above; it's just delightful~! 💖
🐘 https://kolektiva.social/@yenndc/116165839019541759#SexWork #ISWRD #ISWRD2026 #Europe #CEECA #SWAN #UK #NUM #Netherlands #SMAP
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Some highlights for International Sex Workers' Rights Day on Europe~ ^^ #ISWRD #ISWRD2026 #SexWork #Europe #CEECA #SWAN #TAMPEP #ESWA
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:7p4pbes77hhseeifiozhobxl/post/deyhisdu2rmiw -
A few highlights from Africa~
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> ✊🏽✨ International Sex Worker Rights Day ✨🌍
> On March 3rd, we honour the legacy and stand in solidarity with sex workers around the world in the ongoing fight for rights, safety, and self-determination.
> Sex workers are the true experts of their own realities, and their insights must lead the way in research, policy, and advocacy. We celebrate the incredible strength and resilience of this community.
> Today and every day: Centre their voices. Challenge injustice. Stand in solidarity and #DecrimSexWork— SWEAT and Sisonke 🇿🇦
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> UNESOs Message in Commemoration of 3rd March International Sex Workers' Rights Day under the Global Theme "Labour Rights."
> In Uganda, sex work and sex workers’ workplaces are excluded from national labour laws, which creates an environment where sex workers have no option but to accept exploitative working conditions and other targeted human rights violations. The struggle for the recognition of sex work as work is closely tied to the struggle for decriminalisation.
> Decriminalising sex work means that sex workers will no longer be treated as criminals. It brings sex work within a Human Rights framework, enabling sex workers to claim their fundamental rights to health, equality, and freedom from violence. It also ensures they have access to the same labour law protections that all other workers in Uganda are entitled to.— UNESO 🇺🇬
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> Today, we stand with sex workers globally.
> Refugee and migrant sex workers in all our diversity demand: • Labour rights • Full decriminalization • Equal rights and protection.
> Our work is labour. Our dignity is non-negotiable. ✊🏾— KNESWO 🇰🇪
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> Today we mark Sex Workers' Rights Day
> Decriminalization reduces violence, improves health access, and protects human rights.
> Sex work is work. Safety is non-negotiable. Dignity is a right.— KESWA 🇰🇪
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#SexWork #ISWRD #ISWRD2026
#SWEAT #Sisonke #Zimbabwe
#UNESO #Uganda
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International Sex Workers' Rights Day.
👥 Decrim WA, Magenta, Meridian ACT and Respect Inc. respectively. 🇦🇺
#SexWork #ISWRD #ISWRD2026 #Australia #DecrimWA #Magenta #Meridian #RespectInc
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International Sex Workers' Rights Day.
👥 SWOP NSW 🇦🇺
Recommended here —
«International Sex Workers Rights Day: Give Inglenook the Boot» on RC Radical Radio:
🎧 https://www.3cr.org.au/globalintifada/episode/international-sex-worker-rights-day-give-inglenook-boot -
International Sex Workers' Rights Day.
👥 SIN SA 🇦🇺
«5 Reasons to Decriminalise Sex Work»
1. Decriminalisation improves safety and reduces violence.
Sex work is not inherently violent; it is criminalisation that places sex workers at greatest risk.
Studios show in jurisdictions that have decriminalised sex work, such as New Zealand, sex workers have an increased ability to screen clients, work in safer areas with better access to secure services, and refer to police in cases of violence.¹⁻²2. Decriminalisation leads to better health outcomes.
Decriminalisation removes legal barriers for sex workers seeking out healthcare, including STI and BBV testing and treatment, sexual and reproductive health services, harm reduction, and other essential care.
This empowers sex workers to make autonomous decisions about our own health, fostering positive health-seeking behaviours and reducing stigma and discrimination in healthcare settings.³3. Decriminalisation reduces stigma and discrimination.
Decriminalisation recognises sex work as real work. In turn this helps contribute to a more inclusive and equitable society which empowers and uplifts the voices of marginalised groups. Although decriminalisation is not a fix-all for eliminating stigma, discrimination, and violence, it is an essential step to addressing structural barriers to sex workers' health and human rights.⁴
4. Decriminalisation improves access to justice.
Laws that criminalise sex work cause sex workers to feel unsafe reporting crimes, including violent crimes, because we fear prosecution, police surveillance, stigma, and discrimination.⁵
In settings where sex work has been decriminalised, sex workers who have experiences discrimination, violence, or abuse can report incidents and seek out support without fear of legal repercussions.⁶5. Decriminalisation respects human rights and dignity.
There are many reasons why people engage in sex work, and whatever the reasons, sex work is work, and sex workers should be treated with dignity.
Sex workers' human rights cannot be fully realized as long as criminal laws threaten our access to justice, health, and social services; undermine our right to labour and workplace protections; as well as expose us to violence, discrimination, and arbitrary arrest.⁷‣ References:
1. Armstrong, Lynzi, “Screening clients in a decriminalised street-based sex industry: Insights into the experiences of New Zealand sex workers”.
Australias and New Zealand Journal of Criminology 0(00 (2014); 1-16.
2. New Zealand Ministry of Justice, Report of the Prostitution Law Review Committee on the operatioOperation of the Prostitution Reform Act 2003, (2008).
3. NSWP, “Decriminalisation vs Legalisation: Understanding Key Differences in Sex Work Legislation” (2024).
4. ibid.
5. Decker M. R. et al., “Human rights violations against sex workers: burden and effect on HIV”, The Lancet HIV and Sex Workers, (2014); 60-73.
6. Gillian Abel, “A decade of decriminalization: Sex work ‘down under’ but not underground”, Criminology and Criminal Justice (14(5) (2014); 580-592.
7. International Committee on the Rights of Sex Workers in Europe, “Declaration of the Rights of Sex Workers in Europe” (2005). -
‣ Today is International Sex Workers’ Rights Day
Sex work is work, and sex workers deserve respect, equality, and the same rights and protections as all workers.On 3 March 2001, over 25,000 sex workers in India gathered for the Kolkata Sex Worker Freedom Festival to advocate for sex worker rights, including safety at work. Prohibitionist groups tried to prevent the festival from taking place by pressuring the government to revoke the group’s permit, but were unsuccessful.
Since then, 3 March has become an important date to promote sex worker rights, highlighting the need for sex work to be recognised as legitimate work and for sex workers to be protected under the law. Recognising sex work as work is a vital step towards fighting for decriminalisation, anti-discrimination protections and labour rights.
Did you know that in some parts of unceded Australia, sex work and sex workers are still criminalised?
The fight for sex work to be recognised as real work in Australia is far from over. Until all sex workers are free from discrimination, stigma and criminalisation, none of us are truly free.
‣ But I thought sex work was “legal” in Australia?
Decriminalisation removes laws and penalties criminalising all aspects of sex work between consenting adults. Sex work is then covered under existing health and safety laws.
Legalisation involves laws and regulations permitting sex work under certain conditions, while all other sex work remains criminalised. Under legalisation, governments impose special regulations just for the sex industry.
Sex work is partially criminalised in WA.
Full criminalisation in SA.
Sex work is decriminalised in NSW, NT, QLD and VIC.
There are gaps in NSW and VIC regarding street based sex work. The NT and QLD have fully decriminalised street based sex work.Sex work in the ACT operates under a licensing model.
Sex work is partially criminalised in TAS.
‣ Why is decriminalisation the best legislative model for sex work?
Decriminalisation is fundamental to upholding sex workers' right to participate fully in public lie and achieve economic empowerment; enabling financial agency, security, and independence.
• Criminalisation of sex work, along with stigma and discrimination, increases sex workers' vulnerabilities to violence.
• Decriminalisation is the only model of sex industry regulation to enable evidence-based public health outcomes.
• Decriminalisation in Australian jurisdictions has also enabled the development of workplace health and safety guidance for the sex industry. -
> On this International Sex Workers' Rights Day, we at Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee stand together from Kolkata, India and beyond in solidarity for dignity and equality.
> Sex work is work. Our voices matter. Our rights matter.
> ✊🏽 Respect. Recognition.
— DMSC 🇮🇳
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> RED UMBRELLAS FOR SEX WORKERS' RIGHTS
> March 3rd is the International Sex Workers' Rights Day, a day to reinforce that SEX WORK IS WORK, to stand against stigma, discrimination, racism, and intolerance.
> March 3rd is the day to reflect about the LACK OF LABOUR AND SOCIAL RIGHTS that sex workers face daily, worldwide. A day to show solidarity with all, i.e. female, male, transgender, and migrant sex workers.
> Europe has forgotten the Human Rights of Migrant Sex Workers.
> IT IS TIME TO UNITE TO FIGHT FOR SEX WORKERS' RIGHTS!> Figure: “MARIE, sex worker, works in Berlin”. By Veronica Munk.
— TAMPEP 🇪🇺
https://tampep.eu/march-3-international-sex-workers-rights-day-3/
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> “Sex Work is Work” is more than a slogan it is a demand for human rights.
> This 3 March, the African Sex Workers Alliance stands firm in the fight for decriminalization and universal healthcare. We won't stop until every sex worker can live and work with safety and dignity.
> Solidarity forever! ✊✊✊— ASWA 🌍
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ESWA's February newsletter is published~ 💖 And today seems a particularly good day to note it. ^~ #ISWRD #ISWRD2026 👠 📰 Check it out at their website! 👈 Or look through the thread below~ (0/15) @[email protected] #ESWAMonthly #February2026 #SexWork #Europe #ESWA #Newsletter
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Of course, I gotta highlight specially ✨ the premiere of ESWA's new community video ✨ today at 3pm CET. 💖
A few more quotes from it~ 💕
🐘 Previous announcement: https://kolektiva.social/@yenndc/116141536096476508
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ESWA's February newsletter is published~ with a fair share of good news and interesting contents. 💖
Today seems a particularly good day to note it, as well~ 😉Check it out!
📰 https://www.eswalliance.org/eswa_february_2026_newsletter#SexWork #ESWAMonthly #February2026 #ESWA #Europe #Newsletter #ISWRD #ISWRD2026
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> Today is March 3rd: International Sex Workers’ Rights Day! 🚩☂️
> Our movement didn't start in a boardroom—it started on the streets of Kolkata, India, in 1844. Thousands of sex workers rose up against colonial oppression and police violence. ✊
— APNSW 🌏
❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
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New #OpenAccess Study:
Male Sex Workers as Situational Entrepreneurs: Exploring the Demographics, Motivations, and Practices of Male Sex Workers in the Tourism Industry in Botswana
#Sexwork #Botswana #SexTourism #decriminalizationhttps://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/13607804241235806
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#CFP from my Inbox: UK conference in Oct 2023
Open to participants from #academia and beyond
#SexualityStudies #GenderStudies #MediaStudies #TelevisionStudies #FilmStudies #TransStudies #SexWork #PornStudies