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Sex Work
Sex work decriminalization decreases violence and displacement while supporting risk reduction and peer support networks among sex workers
- PLOS Medicine - Platt et al. 18 (cited here)
- HUGE META-ANALYSIS of 130 studies on 33 countries on the legalization and policing of sex work and workers.
- Studies were published in scientific journals between 1990 to 2018.
- It showed that in contexts of criminalisation, the threat and enactment of police harassment, repressive policing, and arrest of sex workers or their clients:
- increased risk of sexual/physical violence from clients or other parties
- displaced sex workers into isolated work locations
- Disrupted peer support networks and service access
- limited risk reduction opportunities.
- discouraged sex workers from obtaining and carrying methods of safe sex
- exacerbated existing inequalities experienced by transgender, migrant, and drug-using sex workers.
- HUGE META-ANALYSIS of 130 studies on 33 countries on the legalization and policing of sex work and workers.
“Those of us who work on the street are running from the police, pushed into more isolated areas because clients are fearful of arrest”
~ Niki Adams of the English Collective of Prostitutes