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- IUSW - welcome - The International Union of Sex Workers, Sex Workers Unionization organization. Sex worker rights initiatives include: "Decriminalisation of all aspects of sex work involving consenting adults" and "An end to social attitudes which stigmatise those who are or have been sex workers".
- - Coalition for the Rights of Sex Workers - The Coalition for the Rights of Sex Workers was founded in 1996 by sex workers, former sex workers and our allies. We are part of the international struggle for the rights of people in the sex trade and for the decriminalization of our lives and our work. Both English and French translations available on this website.
- W.H.O.R.E. - Women Helping Ourselves to Rights and Equality - Information on sex work including laws, safety, work, dancing, street work, bad dates, and decriminalization versus legalization.
- The Canadian Guild for Erotic Labour - ... promote labour rights and labour organizing for women, men and transsexual/transgendered workers engaged in erotic labour in Canada. We define erotic labour as the commercial provision of erotic or sexual relaxation, entertainment or companionship services. This includes escorting, erotic massage, body rub, street work, erotic dancing, professional bdsm, porn performance/modelling and various other forms of sex work.
- SALLI - United Sex Professionals of Finland - Finnish organisation for those who work in erotic labour: sex workers, private escorts, erotic performers, strippers, pro doms, and porn models.
- Tracy Quan's Homepage - Over the past ten years Tracy Quan has spoken at universities and in other forums, about issues that affect the sex industry. Frequently described as a post-feminist, she is a member of the International Network of Sex Work Projects.
- Sex Industry Network South Australia - The South Australian Sex Industry Network (SIN) is a program area of the AIDS Council of South Australia and is funded as a health promotion project that aims to support the current high standards of sexual health among South Australian sex workers.
- STAR - Sex Trade Advocacy and Research -- Canadian web site describing this organisations work. Includes reports and press releases.
- HOOK Online - HOOK is a non-profit project by, for and about men working in the sex industry. Including interviews, support and discussions.
- Prostitution, Feminism and Critical Praxis: Profession Prostitute? - An academic paper by Dr. Maggie O'Neill, Austrian Journal of Sociology, 1996. Explores the fact that prostitution is experienced and articulated as sex work for some women in contemporary society.
Wikipedia Articles
- International Union of Sex Workers - The International Union of Sex Workers (IUSW) is a United Kingdom based trade union for sex workers. It campaigns for the decriminalisation of prostitution, and to have sex work acknowledged as viable labour.
- Sex trade (Canada) - The sex trade, or sex-trade, is a term used to describe prostitution and sex work in Canada.
- Work spouse - A work spouse is a co-worker (usually of the opposite sex), also "They are platonic, very close, opposite-sex couplings, with no romantic strings attached;" "A recent workplace survey found that 32 percent of workers say they have an 'office husband' or 'office wife.' '(It's) really hitting its stride this year,' said Mark Oldman, co-founder of ...
- Scarlet Alliance - Scarlet Alliance is the national peak sex worker organisation of Australia and was formed in 1989. Scarlet Alliance, Australian sex workers Association, through its objectives, policies and programs, aims to achieve equality, social, legal, political, cultural and economic justice for past and present workers in the sex industry, in order for sex workers to be self-determining agents, building their own alliances and choosing where and how ...
- Sex surrogate - A sex surrogate is a member of a sex therapy team who engages in intimate physical or sexual relations with a client in order to achieve a therapeutic goal. The practice was introduced by Masters and Johnson with their work on Human Sexual Inadequacy in 1970.