7. In Solidarity: Decriminalise Sex Work

So Skewed

Can we shut up about the ethics and morality of prostitution for a minute, and understand what anti-prostitution laws do to sex workers? Because, sex workers have been trying to tell us for ages: the criminalization of prostitution is not only brutal towards sex workers (the women whose exploitation the laws want to combat) but ineffective at ending prostitution. So what does the sex worker movement want? This episode 7, the final episode of season 1, discusses how counterproductive anti-prostitution laws (that masquerade as anti-trafficking laws) are and explores, at length, the decriminalization of sex work.
Warning: Adult themes. Listener discretion is advised.
Credits:
Host: Surabhi Chatterjee
Audio production: Pruthu Parab
Cover Art illustration: Rini Alphonsa Joseph
Music:
The intro music is Wake up, Max by Axel Lundström. Music is from YouTube audio library and includes: Minor Waltz, No. 9 Esther’s Waltz, No. 4 Paino Journey, No. 7 Alone with thoughts - Esther Abrami; Atlantis Rage-Jimena Contreras; Sinister Cathedral-Asher Fulero; The empty moons of Jupiter-Divkid; Masquerade, Espeluzante- Luna Cantina;The Beacon- Zachariah Hickman;Papov–Logos; Allegro-Emmit Fenn; Full Moon Empty House, Water Truck- Trevor Garrod; I Don't See the Branches, I See the Leaves by Chris Zabriskie (is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Source: http://chriszabriskie.com/dtv/
Artist: http://chriszabriskie.com/); Drone in D by Kevin MacLeod(is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1200044
Artist: http://incompetech.com/)
Sources:
Juno Mac and Molly Smith (2018) “Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights”; Melisa Gira Grant (2014) “Playing the Whore”;Amia Srinivasan (2020). “The Right to Sex”.
DMSC (1997) "Sex Workers’ Manifesto";Gail Pheterson"At long last, listen to the women”; Jo Doezema (1999) “Loose Women or Lost Women: The Re-emergence of the Myth of White Slavery in Contemporary Discourses of Trafficking in Women”;Jo Doezma “the ideology of trafficking”; Sangram Resources; Nomi Network Website; Global Network of Sex Work Projects.

Fraser Crichton“Decriminalising sex work in New Zealand – It’s history and impact”;The New Zealand Model; Global Alliance against Traffic in women. Durbar profile ;Theatre and Sex Work. VAMP’s performance as resistance

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Chapters

1. Introduction (00:00:00)

2. Part 1: The War on Sex Workers (00:07:48)

3. Part 2: The Police (00:28:25)

4. Part 3: Decriminalisation (00:52:06)

5. Part 4: In Reverence (01:06:46)