(Page 2 of 2) Under the red light asked the Health Protection Agency, an independent agency set up by the Government to deal with infectious diseases, if there were any data available about the incidence of HIV among sex workers. We were told that such data doesn’t exist, even though figures were available about the [...]
A leading HIV charity says criminalizing sex work can only endanger efforts to prevent HIV and other STIs, by forcing sex workers “to go underground”. Instead, the Terrence Higgins Trust (THT) has called for a change in sex work laws that would allow people involved in the sex trade to work together in a “safer” [...]
According to the World Health Organization, there is an estimate number of 33,3 million people, spread all across the globe, currently living with HIV. Violence perpetrated by clients or pimps, as well as possible difficulties to access sexual health services, have made sex workers one of the most vulnerable groups to the infection. Following the [...]
The justification for the limitations of women’s autonomy, equality and freedom to make their own decisions on their personal sexual and reproductive rights has always been that “it is good for them”; that they need protection from themselves or others – for their own good as well as the good of ‘the family’, work or [...]
The debate around prostitution and its role in society is often punctuated with moral dilemmas. Whether endorsing the legalization or the criminalization of sex work, campaigners are frequently confronted with the questions: Is it moral to sell sex? What about buying: is it moral or immoral to purchase sexual services? Should sex workers be seen as a [...]
