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    The document summarizes key points from a lecture about sex work, including: - Sex work encompasses a diverse population and experiences, including prostitution, pornography, stripping, and BDSM. - Where sex work is conducted influences factors like pay, safety, and risk of arrest/violence. Independent escorts and brothel-based workers generally earn more and are safer than street-based workers. - There is racial and economic stratification in sex work, as in other industries. Sex workers of color and those in more vulnerable situations like on the streets tend to earn less and face greater risks.

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    The document summarizes key points from a lecture about sex work, including: - Sex work encompasses a diverse population and experiences, including prostitution, pornography, stripping, and BDSM. - Where sex work is conducted influences factors like pay, safety, and risk of arrest/violence. Independent escorts and brothel-based workers generally earn more and are safer than street-based workers. - There is racial and economic stratification in sex work, as in other industries. Sex workers of color and those in more vulnerable situations like on the streets tend to earn less and face greater risks.

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    The document summarizes key points from a lecture about sex work, including: - Sex work encompasses a diverse population and experiences, including prostitution, pornography, stripping, and BDSM. - Where sex work is conducted influences factors like pay, safety, and risk of arrest/violence. Independent escorts and brothel-based workers generally earn more and are safer than street-based workers. - There is racial and economic stratification in sex work, as in other industries. Sex workers of color and those in more vulnerable situations like on the streets tend to earn less and face greater risks.

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    Sex Work

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    Joseph Hearze
    The document summarizes key points from a lecture about sex work, including: - Sex work encompasses a diverse population and experiences, including prostitution, pornography, stripping, and BDSM. - Where sex work is conducted influences factors like pay, safety, and risk of arrest/violence. Independent escorts and brothel-based workers generally earn more and are safer than street-based workers. - There is racial and economic stratification in sex work, as in other industries. Sex workers of color and those in more vulnerable situations like on the streets tend to earn less and face greater risks.

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    Todays Lecture

    Well be focusing on just a few aspects of the *very* large world of sex work
    Sex work on the Internet Psychological aspects of sex work Legal aspects of sex work

    Sex workers are a highly diverse population and resist easy generalization
    Todays lecture cannot represent all of their

    experiences Im happy to refer you to further reading if you have questions that dont get answered today!

    What is Sex Work?


    Sex work is a broad term which includes

    individuals who provide some form of sexual service in exchange for money or goods The term sex work was created to emphasize the labor aspect of sex work Some feel that the term prostitute conflates the person with the work prostitute is a stigmatized term

    Sex Work includes women, men, trans people in

    all areas of the sex industry- from porn to stripping to BDSM to prostitution
    Todays lecture will focus on prostitution

    Venue Matters
    Where you work influences $$ Control over services provided Control over schedule Safety Risk of arrest

    Risk of violence

    Independent Agency Escort Madame referrals Erotic Masseur Brothel Based Bar Based Street Based

    Who do you think makes the most?


    What type of person

    (using our shallow categories like gender/race/age/SES) can make the most money as a sex worker?

    Racial and Economic Stratification of Sex Work


    Much like other forms of employment, sex work is

    not equal opportunity Sex workers face discrimination based on race, ethnicity, economic class, migration status Female sex workers earn almost twice as much as men Independent escorts earn the most, work in safer conditions Street based workers earn the least, are most vulnerable to arrest, victimization by clients or pimps

    Outdoor Sex Workers


    Street based workers Estimated 10% of U.S. prostitutes Often homeless, may be adolescent runaways, or escaping domestic violence More likely to have substance abuse problems than non-street based workers Most frequently targeted by police Among men, street based workers are less likely to consider themselves gay The majority of the research on sex workers in the US has sampled women on the street
    90% research samples 10% of sex workers- think about it

    Outdoor Sex Workers


    Have a VERY young average age of entry into the work. Often between 14-16.
    Often coerced/forced into job

    This is not the average for indoor sex workers, particularly in legal work environments

    Indoor Sex Workers


    Brothels
    Brothel workers are arrested less often than street based

    women, more often than escorts Brothel workers operate from a fixed location

    Erotic Masseurs
    Provide massage with happy ending

    Escorts:
    Escort Agencies Independent Escorts Internet Escorts & Rentboys Referral (private) Print advertisement

    Survey Results
    Rates/Race: Safer Sex: Range from 180 1,000 per Condom use for hour vaginal sex was close to Top end: Multiple hour 100% minimums; 600-1,000 Mode for White women: The majority of the $500 women used condoms Mode for women of color: for oral sex always or usually with few $400 exceptions BBWs, Mature women, Fetish providers 28 /30 HIV 2 were untested/refused

    made less $

    to answer

    Legal vs. illegal


    What differences exist for customers, and sex workers in a legal/illegal environment?

    Legal vs. illegal


    Even in a legal environment, which aspects of prostitution would still need to remain illegal and require law enforcement investigation?

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