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In this 'for and against' work, ethicists Lori Watson and Jessica Flanigan debate the criminalization of sex work. Watson argues for a sex equality approach to prostitution in which buyers are criminalized and sellers are decriminalized, known as the Nordic Model. Flanigan argues that sex work should be fully decriminalized because decriminalization ensures respect for sex workers' and clients' rights, and is more effective than alternative policies.

Sex work is a subject of significant contestation across academic disciplines, as well as within legal, medical, moral, feminist, political and socio-cultural discourses. A large body of research exists, but much of this focuses on the sale of sex by women to men and ignores other performances, practices, meanings and embodiments in the contemporary sex industry. A queer agenda is important in order to challenge hetero-centric gender norms and to develop new insights into how gender, sex, power, crime, work, migration, space/place, health and intimacy are understood in the context of commercia.

"Sex work is a subject of significant contestation across academic disciplines, as well as within legal, medical, moral, feminist, political and socio-cultural discourses. A large body of research exists, but much of this focuses on the sale of sex by women to men and ignores other performances, practices, meanings and embodiments in the contemporary sex industry. A queer agenda is important in order to challenge hetero-centric gender norms and to develop new insights into how gender, sex, power, crime, work, migration, space/place, health and intimacy are understood in the context of commercial sexual encounters. Queer Sex Work explores what it might mean to 'be', 'do' and 'think' queer(ly) in the study and practice of commercial sex. It brings together a multiplicity of empirical case studies - including erotic dance venues, online sex working, pornography, grey sexual economies, and BSDM - and offers a variety of perspectives from academic scholars, policy practitioners, activists and sex workers themselves. In so doing, the book advances a queer politics of sex work that aims to disrupt heteronormative logics whilst also making space for different voices in academic and political debates about commercial sex. This unique and multidisciplinary volume will be indispensable for scholars and students of the global sex trade and of gender, sexuality, feminism and queer theory more broadly, as well as policymakers, activists and practitioners interested in the politics and practice of sex work in local, national and international contexts"--

Prostitution scandals stigmatize workers for their entire lives, but the politician involved is marred for only one news cycle. "White knight" feminists shame women for sexually catering to the patriarchy but talk from a place of economic privilege. Religious organizations engage in misguided attempts to "save" women who use the industry as a job. Exploitive policies aimed at curtailing sex work hurt the individuals who wish to practice safe sex for their own protection. In the guise of aiding sex workers, or saving them from themselves, those that would advocate for more restrictive policies ignore the ramifications of what these laws would entail.

In 2015, Amnesty International joined over 200 sex worker organisations in the call for nations to decriminalise sex work. Despite this, only two jurisdictions in the world, New Zealand and New South Wales (NSW; Australia), have adopted this approach. This article examines the role that sex worker activists played in sex work law reform in NSW through their representative organisation, the Australian Prostitutes Collective (APC). The APC produced and submitted groundbreaking research to the Select Committee of the NSW Legislative Assembly on Prostitution (1983–1986) whose recommendations laid the foundation for the decriminalisation of sex work in NSW. This article contributes to a developing history of the contribution of sex worker activism to law reform. It explores why it is so important that sex worker voices are included in the process of reform, and how meaningful consultation with sex workers helped shape and invoke a radical policy and legal transformation.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- EDITORIAL -- Sex Work, Sex Workers, and Beyond -- ARTICLES -- Twelve-Step Feminism Makes Sex Workers Sick: How the State and the Rocovery Movement Turn Radical Women into "Useless CitiZens -- Reframing "Eve" in the Aids Era: The Pursuit of Legitimacy by New Zealand Sex Workers -- Long-Term Consumption of "X-Rated" Materials and Attitudes Toward Women Among Australian Consumers of X-Rated Videos -- Sex, Beach Boys, and Female Tourists in the Caribbean -- Invisible Man: A Queer Critizue of Feminist Anti-Pornography Theory -- Theorizing Prostitutition the Qustion fo Agency -- Poly Work: Autoethnography of a Strip Club -- BOOK REVIEWS -- Real Live Nude Girl: Chronicles of Sex-Positive Culture, by Carol Queen -- Trafficking in Women, Forced Labour and Slavery-Like Practices in Marriage, Domestic Labour and Prostitution -- Live Sex Acts: Women Performing Erotic Labor -- New Sexual Agendas, edited by Lynne Segal -- Three in Love, by Barbara Foster, Michael Foster and Letha Hadady -- Promiscuities: The Secret Strugglefor Womanhood, by Naomi Wolf(Random House, 1997, 286 pp.)and Last Night in Paradise: Sexand Morals at Century's End, byKatie Roiphe -- Confronting Sexual Harassment:What Schools and Colleges CanDo, by Judith B. Brandenburg -- Feminist Accused of Sexual Harassment, by Jane Gallop -- The First Stone: Some Questionsabout Sex and Power, by HelenGarner -- Privacy and the Politics of Intimate Life -- FILM REVIEW -- In the Company of Men Behaving Badlyll -- PERSONAL PERSPECTIVELL -- Hey, I'M a Feminist! A Male Professor Weighs in with Feminist Pedagogy