Activism
#CoolMenDontBuySex : The Problematic Word Choice Of The Abolitionist Argument
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It all started with a blog post on nordicmodelnow.org that encouraged men to use the hash tag, #coolmendontbuysex...
Queens Free Press (http://www.queensfreepress.com/tag/canada/)
It all started with a blog post on nordicmodelnow.org that encouraged men to use the hash tag, #coolmendontbuysex...
The report also notes that homicides involving sex workers are unfortunately less likely to ever be solved.
H.O.P.E Outreach, an outreach group based in Kelowna, British Columbia, hopes to change the conversation on sex worker safety and perhaps help to better those odds.
A 2015 study...regarding incidences of violence against sex workers found that 49% of respondents “…were either ‘unconfident’ or ‘very unconfident’ that the police will take crimes against them seriously."
In August, 2015, Amnesty International voted in favor of a policy that calls for the full decriminalization of consensual sex work. Definitions of sex work will vary. This author uses the term to refer “…to the consensual exchange of sexual services between adults for money or goods"...The Amnesty vote was supposed to make it possible for proposals to be drafted to rewrite legislation in countries which criminalize the consensual sale and purchase of sex. Sex work is already partially decriminalized in the United Kingdom and Canada...Now many sex workers in the United States are wondering when they’ll get their chance to be heard, and see sex work decriminalized here. This author asked some of them for their thoughts on the subject.