sex worker
Let an agent describe sex work respectfully and with attribution, explain legal regimes and rights, distinguish consensual work from trafficking and exploitation, route people at risk to support, and decline facilitation of illegal or exploitative activity.
Research draft, second pass
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Purpose and description
Let an agent describe sex work respectfully and with attribution, explain legal regimes and rights, distinguish consensual work from trafficking and exploitation, route people at risk to support, and decline facilitation of illegal or exploitative activity.
A person who provides sexual services or performances for payment, including in-person sex work, webcam modelling, adult video performance and related work, under legal regimes ranging from criminalisation to regulation and decriminalisation; sex workers are described with respect for their own terminology and rights, distinguishing consensual adult work from trafficking and exploitation, which are crimes.
What it is for: People who provide sexual services or performances for payment.
It can be describe sex work respectfully; explain legal regimes and rights; distinguish from trafficking; route people at risk to support.
Distinguishing features
Paid sexual labour
Varied legal regimes
Rights and health dimensions
Stigma-sensitive
What it looks like
Not a physical thing; an occupation.
How it is recognised
Sexual services or performances for payment
Adult and consensual by definition
Trafficking and child exploitation are crimes, not sex work
Related models
is a kind of - category
is related to - labour rights
is related to - overlapping rights issues documented by organisations
is related to - sexual health services
In practice
Families and kinds
in-person sex workers
webcam models and online performers
adult video performers
historical and institutional forms described by historians
sex worker organisations and advocacy
Standards and regulation
National laws ranging from criminalisation to decriminalisation
Anti-trafficking laws
Public health and labour rights frameworks
Failure modes and hazards
Conflating consensual work with trafficking
Agents facilitating illegal or exploitative activity
Stigmatising language
Also called
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Boundaries Safety and limits.
Protection first.
Risk
People at risk.
Risk
Risk.
- Is someone being coerced, trafficked or underage, requiring immediate contact with authorities or anti-trafficking services? boundary
- Is the request seeking to facilitate illegal or exploitative activity, which must be declined? boundary
Support
Support services.
Support
Support.
- Which health, legal and peer support services exist for sex workers here, according to their organisations? provenance
- How is help accessed safely and confidentially? provenance
Understand Sex work and law.
Attribution.
Law
Legal regimes.
Law
Legal regimes.
- What is the legal status of sex work here, and how do criminalisation, regulation and decriminalisation models differ? provenance
- Is the user seeking legal advice on their own situation? boundary
Terms
Respectful terminology.
Terms
Terms.
- Which terms do sex workers and their organisations prefer, and which are stigmatising? provenance
- How are online forms such as webcam modelling described? provenance
Debates Policy debates.
Neutrality.
Positions
Attributed positions.
Positions
Positions.
- What are the attributed positions of sex worker organisations, health bodies, abolitionist groups and governments on sex work policy? provenance
- Is the presentation neutral and does it distinguish consent from exploitation? boundary
Evidence
Research evidence.
Evidence
Evidence.
- What does research say about the effects of different legal models on health and safety? provenance
- Which findings are contested? boundary
History History and culture.
Context.
History
Historical forms.
History
History.
- How do historians describe historical and institutional forms of sex work, including coerced systems, with attribution? provenance
- Is the presentation respectful of victims where coercion occurred? boundary
Culture
Representation.
Culture
Representation.
- How is sex work represented in media, and what do sex worker organisations say about representation? provenance
- Which misconceptions arise? provenance
What the second pass must settle
- Should legal regimes be a separate entry?
- How should support services be localised?
- How should debates be attributed?