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Sex work
Andrew Fisher
8th February 2010 at 17:34
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The LRC passed a motion at its conference calling “for the decriminalisation of sex work. We support the unionisation, the self-organisation and liberation of sex workers because we stand in solidarity with all workers organising for their rights.”
There are two upcoming events that may be of interest:
Sex, Work, and Sex Work: Building a feminist analysis and a feminist struggle on 14th February; and
Sex Work / Prostitution: What should we do as LGBT Trade Unionists? on 17th February.
There’s also a Comment is Free piece on this issue today by the President of the GMB-IUSW, Adult Entertainment branch
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/feb/08/sex-workers-advertisement-ban
Tags: decriminalisation (1) | prohibition (1) | prostitution (1) | sex work (1) | trade union rights (17)
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on 9th February 2010 at 22:03, Robert Naether said:
This is difficult for me, since we have struggled where I live with a brothel and prostitutes who have made our area a living hell, this is not a brothel with local girls, this is a pair of local drug addicts selling drugs, selling sex for drugs. We have had a nightmare of smashed windows, car tyres slashed, all because these girls who have been working the trade since they were sixteen. Then we had an elderly lady who was attacked by men who could not afford the girls rate and decided to tackle an 86 year old lady.
define sex workers girls that work in clubs yes, girls that work in registered brothels yes.
Girls who work in brothels which should be registered yes, the girls who set up a brothel in a street or estate nope sorry no way.