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Private Consenting Adult
Prostitution is legal with no major negative issues in almost all the world
except the U.S. The issues of children, trafficking, public nuisance street
hookers, and pimps HAVE NOTHING TO DO with
Private Consenting Adult sexwork - GET IT! Educate the public to get upset
with lawmakers, the courts and police for wasting money on private consenting
adult behavior! Get the law out of our bedrooms!
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Scarlet Alliance, Australian Sex
Workers Association, through our 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
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In 1991 an informal alliance of
sex workers and organizations that provide services to sex workers formed as
the Network of Sex Work Projects. NSWP is a legally constituted international
organisation for promoting sex workers' health and human rights. With member
organizations in more than 40 countries, the Network develops partnerships
with technical support agencies to work on independently-financed projects.
Source:
http://www.nswp.org/ |
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History
The APNSW was formed in 1994
by members of some of Asia’s first organizations to work on health and
human rights with sex workers, Empower Thailand, Sweetly Japan, Pink Triangle
Malaysia, the Scarlet Alliance Australia and Sonagachi.
Aims
The APNSW facilitates sex worker participation and
information sharing on both technical and policy issues, encourages leadership
amongst male, female and transgender sex workers and does direct advocacy.
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Aims and Objectives
- To prevent the spread
and transmission of Sexually Transmitted Infections, HIV and other blood
borne viruses to sex workers and their commercial and private partners; and
further to promote and work towards general and occupational health and
safety conditions through education, advocacy and support.
- To lobby for legal
and administrative frameworks which do not discriminate against sex workers
and former sex workers.
- To strive to
eradicate sex worker stereotypes in the popular consciousness and to replace
these myths with the true experiences of sex workers.
- To provide support and
referral services for workers in the sex industry, their commercial and
private partners.
- To address the
special needs of sex industry workers whose ethnic and cultural backgrounds
impede their access to sex worker related services.
- To identify and
minimise the obstacles faced by sex workers who wish to participate in
further education and training, through support and referral.
- To support, in ways
deemed appropriate by the Management Committee, a national organisation with
similar objectives, and SQWISI’s role within it and to promote solidarity
amongst all workers in the sex industry.
Source:
http://www.sqwisi.org.au/sqwisi/aims/Aims.htm |
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$pread
is a quarterly, glossy magazine by and for sex workers and those who support
their rights. The magazine has a focus on personal experiences and political
insights, and contains practical information like news, features, health
columns, and resources related to the sex industry. $pread builds
community in the sex trade by featuring the honest and diverse perspectives of
those who know it best: the women and men who work within this
sensationalized, highly stereotyped industry.
Founded
in the summer of 2004 by three women, the magazine has already garnered lots
of press attention as well as winning the coveted Utne Independent
Press Award for “Best New Title of 2005” after only three issues. $pread
actively confronts various stigmas surrounding sex work, raises awareness
of legal and political issues affecting sex workers, and encourages support
for the rights of all people working in the sex industries
Source:http://www.spreadmagazine.org/mission.htm |
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The Sex Workers Outreach Project (SWOP)
is a community based organisation established in 1990. The project aims to
minimise the transmission of Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD's) and
HIV/AIDS in the NSW sex industry, as well as providing a range of health,
safety, support and information services for sex workers, management, clients
and partners of sex industry workers. SWOP works with the sex industry to
achieve acceptance and maintenance of safe sexual and drug use behaviour. SWOP
is also active in lobbying for law and health reform. Peer education and harm
reduction concepts are used in our service delivery. Services are confidential
and free of charge and extend to women, men and transgender sex workers in
NSW.
SWOP uses various strategies to
provide information and support for female, male and transgender sex workers
in brothels, private situations, on the streets, B & D establishments, strip
clubs and other areas where commercial sex is available in NSW.
Source:
http://www.swop.org.au/about.html |
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